Disbar Don’s death threat lawyer: Dems

A couple of House Democrats formally called on a Washington court to strip a Trump campaign attorney of his right to practice law Wednesday amid mounting outrage over the controversial lawyer’s death threat against a former U.S. election security official.

Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-L.I.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) filed the extraordinary request with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the capital’s Court of Appeals, where the Trump lawyer, Joseph diGenova, is licensed.

“In the United States, we cannot and will not allow death threats — especially from those acting on the president’s behalf — to silence discourse, dissent and honesty,” the Democrats wrote in a letter to the counsel’s office.

DiGenova, who’s part of the Trump campaign effort to subvert Joe Biden’s election, said in a Monday interview on the right-wing Newsmax network that Chris Krebs, the former director of the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency, should be killed for publicly debunking the president’s baseless claim that Biden’s victory was facilitated by widespread voter fraud.

“That guy is a Class A moron,” diGenova said of Krebs, who was handpicked for his former post by Trump.

“He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.”

Rice and Lieu — both licensed attorneys — did not explicitly call for diGenova’s disbarment in Wednesday’s letter.

Instead, they demanded the counsel’s office launch an “immediate” investigation into his “egregious” conduct.

However, the disciplinary office’s most severe penalty is disbarment, and the Democrats hinted that they consider that punishment justified, saying diGenova’s threat against Krebs violated a slate of judicial codes of conduct and puts his “fitness as a lawyer” in serious doubt.

“Rice put it more bluntly in a tweet.

“These comments are beyond reprehensible. DiGenova should be arrested and disbarred. Period,” she posted Monday.

DiGenova did not return a request for comment Wednesday.