Two years after Rudy Giuliani failed in court to produce any evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania, he was back at it again Monday — this time with his law license on the line.

Facing possible professional sanctions, the once-lauded mayor of New York City turned mouthpiece for former President Donald Trump doubled down on his false claims of a stolen election during a disciplinary hearing before a committee of the Washington, D.C., bar.

He insisted the federal courts in Pennsylvania ruled incorrectly on Trump’s 2020 legal challenges and groused that he’d become a victim of persecution ever since.

“I believe that I’ve been persecuted for years,” Giuliani said Monday, testifying as the first witness in the proceedings, which are set to play out throughout the week. “My defense is to get away from the sound bite and try to get to an explanation of what happened … I find that things have been taken context that are much more complicated in context.”

The disciplinary hearing — the first step in a process that could result in Giuliani losing his license to practice law in Washington — is one of the highest-profile tests yet of efforts to hold accountable attorneys who advanced Trump’s election lies in court.

Nationwide, ethics complaints have been filed against attorneys who represented the campaign in its largely frivolous legal challenges — including at least seven in Pennsylvania.

As Trump’s personal lawyer at the time and the...

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