In a move that was very slow in coming, but that could not possible have surprised anyone, Rudy Giuliani has been officially and permanently disbarred in Washington DC. You can read the one page decision here. For more on the story, here are a few sources:
Above the Law has a good, short, account of how Giuliani ended up here (from his failed presidential run, to his unfulfilled hopes of joining the Trump administration, to becoming Trump's personal attorney, to his downfall, and, more than likely, upcoming bankruptcy) and explains the DC result as follows:
Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani got disbarred. Again. And in the most Rudy Giuliani way possible.
In a one-page order, the DC Court of Appeals noted that it had ordered him on July 25 “to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be imposed” after America’s erstwhile Mayor was relieved of his license to practice law in the state of New York. Giuliani was apparently preoccupied stumbling into and out of bankruptcy and generally flopping around the federal docket like a beached orca as he desperately attempts to fend off the $148 million judgment in favor of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Atlanta poll workers he defamed. And so Rudy just didn’t bother to respond to the show cause order.
Under local precedent, “The imposition of identical discipline when the respondent fails to object should be close to automatic, with minimum review by both the Board and this court.”
And so, not having replied to the order, the court proceeded to disbar him.
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