Rudy Giuliani was suspended from his law license in Washington months after settling with Georgia election workers – WABE

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington on Thursday, months after he was disbarred in New York for pursuing false claims made by then-President Donald Trump about his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

The Washington DC appeals court's brief ruling said Giuliani did not respond to an order explaining why he should not be disbarred in Washington after he was in New York last summer.

Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Giuliani, called the decision “an absolute travesty and a complete miscarriage of justice.” Giuliani has argued that he believed the claims he made on behalf of the Trump campaign were true.

“Members of the legal community who want to protect the integrity of our justice system should immediately speak out against this partisan, politically motivated decision,” Goodman said in a text message.

It's the latest blow to the man once hailed as “America's mayor.” His advocacy of Trump's false election claims has also led to criminal charges. He also faces financial ruin after a jury last year awarded $148 million in damages to two former Georgia poll workers who sued him for defamation over lies he told about them in 2020 .

Giuliani was one of Trump's most vocal defenders in 2020, pushing baseless claims of large-scale voter fraud in the election that the Republican lost to President Joe Biden.

Previously, Giuliani had his law license revoked in Washington. A review panel last year recommended that he be disbarred over claims in a Pennsylvania lawsuit that sought to overturn Trump's loss there.

Giuliani “claimed massive voter fraud but had no evidence,” the panel wrote.

The former Georgia poll workers – Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman – asked a court last month to force Giuliani to give up his New York apartment, the remaining cash and some of his valuable New York Yankees memorabilia, including three World Series rings and a signed jersey from player Joe DiMaggio.

Freeman and Moss also claimed the estimated $2 million that Giuliani previously said Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign owed him. They also tried to take control of another of Giuliani's properties – his condominium in Palm Beach, Florida – through a different legal mechanism known as receivership.

Giuliani filed for bankruptcy shortly after the defamation verdict in December. But in July, a judge dismissed his case, citing failure to comply with court orders, failure to disclose sources of income and his apparent unwillingness to hire an accountant to review his books.

Giuliani has pleaded not guilty to nine counts in the Arizona case, alleging he spread false claims of voter fraud there after the 2020 election. He is being indicted separately in Georgia, along with Trump and other allies of the former president who are accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.