A Washington, D.C.-based bar discipline committee concluded Friday that Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for “frivolous” and “destructive” efforts to derail the 2020 presidential election in support of former President Donald Trump.

“He claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it,” the three-member panel declared in a 38-page decision. “By prosecuting that destructive case Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right to practice law.”

[Giuliani later distanced himself from the nuttier Powell-Wood “Kraken on steroids” claims, but this recommendation pertains to his in-court misrepresentations in Pennsylvania rather than what others did in Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada, among other states. We repeatedly noted at the time that attorneys are bound by court rules not to misrepresent facts or claim evidence that they cannot later produce, and the complaint is filled with examples of both. Giuliani can certainly defend himself at the DC Court of Appeals over the conclusions and sanctions, but it was very clear even in the moment that Giuliani was acting recklessly in court. — Ed]