{"id":200156,"date":"2021-06-24T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/24\/the-schadenfreude-drought-is-over\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:45:00","slug":"the-schadenfreude-drought-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/24\/the-schadenfreude-drought-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schadenfreude Drought is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you hear that the New York State appellate court just suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license pending a more permanent disposition<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The court basically said that  his lies in court in support of Trump had been so egregious that a permanent disbarment should be on the menu:<\/p>\n

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Rudolph W. Giuliani<\/a>, a former top federal prosecutor, New York City mayor and lawyer to a president, had his law license suspended after a New York court ruled on Thursday that he made \u201cdemonstrably false and misleading statements\u201d while fighting the results of the 2020 election<\/a> on behalf of Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

The move was a humbling blow to a man who was once known as a law-and-order crusader and whose political ambitions and creative courtroom tactics against mob bosses turned him into a fixture on national television.<\/p>\n

The New York State appellate court temporarily suspended Mr. Giuliani\u2019s law license on the recommendation of a disciplinary committee after finding he had sought to mislead judges, lawmakers and the public as he helped shepherd Mr. Trump\u2019s legal challenge to the election results<\/a>. For months, Mr. Giuliani, who was Mr. Trump\u2019s personal lawyer, had argued without merit that the vote had been rife with fraud and that voting machines had been rigged.<\/p>\n

In its 33-page decision<\/a>, the court said that Mr. Giuliani\u2019s actions represented an \u201cimmediate threat\u201d to the public and that he had \u201cdirectly inflamed\u201d the tensions that led to the Capitol riot<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seriousness of respondent\u2019s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be overstated. This country is being torn apart by continued attacks on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and of our current president, Joseph R. Biden,\u201d the decision read.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Courts and law bars hate ruling on things political, but this rat-f%$#ing is so pervasive, that they feel that they have no choice but to act.<\/p>\n

Given that Giuliani has not actually practiced as a lawyer, except for his Trump related rat-f%$#ing, for years, it won’t effect him much financially, but it marks his exit from respectable society. <\/p>\n

Or at least, that’s what I hope.  After all Roy Cohn remained a fixture of society well after his “sell by” date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you hear that the New York State appellate court just suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license pending a more permanent disposition? The court basically said that  his lies in court in support of Trump had been so egregious that a permanent disbarment should be on the menu: Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former top federal prosecutor, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,972,978,1019,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}