disbar

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And it certainly is not a good sign when the Justice Department is set on a political mission to discredit, disbar, or otherwise persecute the very people who helped protect our nation in the years after 9/11.

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  1. transitive verb To expel (an attorney) from the practice of law by official action or procedure.

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  • The bar, apparently, has been holding a grudge ever since it failed to disbar him in 1990. lots more.
  • Because the State Bar considers obstruction of justice a serious crime, it may have little choice but to disbar Kent, says Robert Hinton of Dallas ' —  Law.com - Newswire
  • If Holder accepts the report's findings, it could be forwarded to state bar associations which may choose to disbar the attorneys. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • If his legal analysis is so piss poor he needs to be fired and the ABA needs to disbar him. —  Jack & Jill Politics
  • Mishandling codeword-classified top secret national security documents (and having that mishandling be documented in a government report) should be enough to disbar Gonzales. —  TPMMuckraker
 

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  1. from dis- privative + bar. Cf. debar.
 

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/dɪsˈbɑr/
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