New Jersey Democrat Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. filed bar
complaints against lead Trump campaign elections attorney Rudy
Giuliani and twenty-two other Trump campaign lawyers in several
states where President Trump is contesting the results of the
November 3 presidential election. Pascrell is calling for the
disbarment of the attorneys for filing cases on behalf of Trump to
“overturn the election and demolish democracy” in Arizona,
Michigan, Nevada, New York and Pennsylvania. The other attorneys
targeted in addition to Giuliani are local attorneys in the
respective states. Giuliani is a former U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York and former two-term mayor of New York
City.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09)
today filed letters with the legal bar authorities in Arizona,
Michigan, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania, seeking the
disbarment of Rudolph Giuliani and 22 other lawyers representing
Donald Trump in his attempts to overturn the election and demolish
democracy. This was first announced by @PascrellForNJ on
Twitter.
“We live together in extraordinary and increasingly dangerous
national circumstances. At present, our sitting President has
refused to accept the outcome of our national election and is
attacking the integrity of our electoral system to keep himself in
power. The pattern of behavior by these individuals to effectuate
Mr. Trump’s sinister arson is a danger not just to our legal
system but is also unprecedented in our national life. In carrying
out that perversion, they have clearly violated the [] Rules of
Professional Conduct they swore to uphold and should face the
severest sanction your body can mete out: revocation of their law
licensures,” Pascrell writes the legal disciplinary authorities
in five states.
Copies of Congressman Pascrell’s letters to the bar
disciplinary authorities of
Arizona,
Michigan,
Nevada,
New York, and
Pennsylvania, are available in the attached hyperlinks.
The text of Pascrell’s letter to the Disciplinary Board of
Pennsylvania is provided below.
November 20, 2020
The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
District I 1601 Market Street, Suite 3320 Philadelphia, PA
19103
District II 820 Adams Avenue, Suite 170 Trooper, PA 19403
District III 601 Commonwealth Avenue Suite 5800, P.O. Box 62675
Harrisburg, PA 17106-2675
District IV 437 Grant Street, Suite 1300 Pittsburgh, PA
15219
To Whom It May Concern:
I write you today to file a complaint against Marc A. Scaringi
(Pennsylvania Bar No. 88346) and Brian C. Caffrey (Bar No. 42667)
of the law firm Scaringi Law (2000 Linglestown Road, Suite 106,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110); Ronald L. Hicks, Jr. (Bar No.
49520) and Carolyn B. McGee (Bar No. 207715) of the law firm Porter
Wright (6 PPG Place, 3d Floor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222);
Linda A. Kerns (Pennsylvania Bar No. 84495) of the law offices of
Linda A. Kerns, LLC (1420 Locust Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania); Joseph Pizzo (Bar No. 63268) and Kenneth Ferris (Bar
No. 92335) of the law firm Joseph Pizzo and Associates, LLC (7
Neshaminy Interplex Suite 200 Trevose, Pennsylvania 19053); and
Joseph Goldstein (Bar No. 201627) and Britain Henry (Bar No.
314279) of the law firm Goldstein Law Partners, LLC (11 Church
Road, Hatfield Pennsylvania 19440). In their capacity as attorneys
representing the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, these
individuals have filed frivolous lawsuits and used your state’s
courts to assault public confidence in our nation’s electoral
system, violating the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct.
Therefore, I request your office commence an immediate
investigation of their actions and consider sanctions for their
conduct up to and including revocation of their licenses to
practice law in your jurisdiction.
As of today, President-elect Joe Biden has won the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by 81,487 votes, or approximately 1.18 percent,[i]
an outcome there is virtually no chance of reversing by a recount.
Despite the difficult circumstances of this pandemic,
Pennsylvania’s administration of the election was strong and
there is no evidence of systematic malfeasance or fraud.
Nevertheless, these individuals have filed absurd lawsuits seeking
to overturn the will of Pennsylvania’s voters and caused
irreversible damage to public trust in the fair administration of
our elections.
The Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct necessarily
govern the actions of your licensed attorneys. Mr. Scaringi, Mr.
Caffrey, Mr. Hicks, Ms. McGee, Ms. Kerns, Mr. Pizzo, Mr. Ferris,
Mr. Goldstein, and Mr. Henry may have violated Rule of Professional
Conduct 3.1 which requires that “[a] lawyer shall not bring or
defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein,
unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not
frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension,
modification or reversal of existing law.”[ii] These individuals
may have also violated Rule 8.4(b) which posits that “[i]t is
professional misconduct for a lawyer to…engage in conduct
involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or
misrepresentation.”[iii]
We live together in extraordinary and increasingly dangerous
national circumstances. At present, our sitting President has
refused to accept the outcome of our national election and is
attacking the integrity of our electoral system to keep himself in
power. The pattern of behavior by these individuals to effectuate
Mr. Trump’s sinister arson is a danger not just to our legal
system but is also unprecedented in our national life. In carrying
out that perversion, they have clearly violated the Pennsylvania
Rules of Professional Conduct they swore to uphold and should face
the severest sanction your body can mete out: revocation of their
law licensures. The holding of a law license is a sacred
responsibility. You have an opportunity here to make a powerful
statement in support of our democracy and deter future charlatans
and miscreants from warping our legal and political systems for
their own profit. Thank you for your prompt attention to this
matter.
Sincerely,
Bill Pascrell, Jr.
United States Congressman
https://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/for-attorneys/rules/rule/3/the-rules-of-professional-conduct [iii]
https://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/for-attorneys/rules/rule/3/the-rules-of-professional-conduct
The letters to each of the state bars are similar but tailored
to each state bar’s rules.
Pascrell’s tweets announcing the complaints:
Here is a copy of my complaint
to the New York State judicial conduct body calling for Rudy
Giuliani’s law license to be stripped. Similar letters were sent
to four other states against Trump lawyers. pic.twitter.com/NkwfmYVOnM— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@PascrellforNJ)
November 20, 2020
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