An attorney disciplinary committee has recommended Rudy Giuliani be disbarred in Washington, DC, for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results on behalf of former US President Donald Trump.

The panel’s recommendation is not final. The DC court of appeals and the Board on Professional Responsibility must still review the case against Giuliani.

The committee singled out Giuliani for dishonesty after the 2020 election and what they called “calculated” attempts to erode confidence in elections. It pointed out that he falsely claimed in a federal court in Pennsylvania that there had been election fraud that could have overturned Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

In 2021, Former US President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer Giuliani was temporarily suspended from practising law in the state of New York for making “false and misleading statements”.

A New York appellate court said that there is “uncontroverted evidence” that Giuliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald Trump and during the Republican’s election campaign in 2020.

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Giuliani, 77, helped the Trump campaign file numerous lawsuits in several states alleging without evidence that the Democratic Party had rigged the election.

Giuliani once served as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, one of the top prosecutor jobs in the United States. He was also mayor of New York City for eight years, earning national acclaim for leading the US financial capital in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US by Al-Qaeda.

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Giuliani was Trump’s personal lawyer when the president was impeached in December 2019 for seeking political help from Ukraine.

FBI agents raided his New York home and offices in late April. He has denounced the operation as politically motivated.