The last time Donald Trump ran for president, some of the lawyers most directly involved in his efforts to overturn the election wound up disbarred, criminally prosecuted or sued for millions. This time, Republican party leaders are aiming to turn the page from that chaotic and failed effort and say they'll have a professional legal operation. Democrats are warning of a renewed potential to undermine confidence in the electoral process. Republicans and Democrats are already fighting in court over election rules. But the Trump team finds itself under a particularly intense microscope given the aftermath of the 2020 race. That's when long shot legal efforts to challenge the results were dismissed by judges as frivolous.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he isn't surprised to have lost his law license in his hometown, claiming in a post on the social media platform X that the case against him was "based on an activist complaint, replete with false arguments." An appeals court in Manhattan ruled Tuesday that Giuliani repeatedly lied about the Republican Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The court says Giuliani "flagrantly misused" his position and "baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity" of the U.S. electoral process. Giuliani was the primary mouthpiece for Trump's false claims of election fraud and had his New York law license suspended in 2021 for his election lies.
