Giuliani was admitted to the New York bar in 1969 but had already been banned from practicing law in the state.
The court ordered that Giuliani be “immediately disqualified from the practice of law and until further order of this Court, his name be removed from the rolls of the bar in the State of New York.”
A spokesman for Giuliani, a former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, criticized the verdict and said he would appeal.
“Those in the legal profession who respect the rule of law in this country should immediately speak out in opposition to this politically and ideologically corrupt decision,” spokesman Ted Goodman said in a statement.
In a social media post, Giuliani said he was “not surprised” to have been disbarred, and argued that the case against him was “based on activist complaints and filled with false allegations.”
Giuliani also faces possible disbarment from the bar in Washington, D.C., and has been banned from practicing law in the United States.
Giuliani has faced numerous legal challenges over his role in leading the effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 reelection loss. He faces criminal charges in Georgia and Arizona for plotting to overturn the 2020 election, and last year was ordered to pay $148 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by two Georgia election officials.
Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York following the defamation lawsuit.
The ruling was handed down Tuesday by the New York Supreme Court’s First Judicial Division, Appellate Division, which found that Giuliani “repeatedly and knowingly made false statements” about the 2020 election, “some of which were perjury statements.”
“In doing so, defendants not only willfully violated some of the most fundamental tenets of the legal profession, but also actively contributed to a national conflict in the wake of the 2020 presidential election and have shown no remorse for doing so,” the ruling said.
The disbarment lawsuit focused on a series of statements Giuliani made at post-election press conferences and media appearances, including an infamous one he held outside a landscaping company in industrial Philadelphia just days after the election.
For example, the court found that Giuliani “falsely and dishonestly” claimed that votes were cast in Philadelphia in the name of the late boxing legend Joe Frazier. The court also said that Giuliani falsely claimed that “tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of non-U.S. citizens voted” in Arizona.
John Catsimatidis, owner of the New York radio station where Giuliani was abruptly taken off the air in May over comments he made about the 2020 election, said in a text message to The Washington Post that the court’s decision was “very disappointing” to Giuliani.
Azi Paybarah contributed to this report.
