kingdragonfly: The Fifth Amendment guarantees several things such against self-incrimination. It's so famously used by mafia gangsters that it's a meme.

In a criminal case (where you can go to jail), it's not an admission of guilt. IN the US, you have the right to stay silent.

In a civil lawsuit, the judge can draw certain adverse inferences against you if you invoke Fifth Amendment privilege. In other words, it assumes that if someone doesn’t want to share something, it’s probably because it would make them look bad.

The High court has ruled disbarment are neither criminal nor civil in nature. It is a disciplinary action taken against a lawyer who has violated professional conduct rules.

Similar to a civil case, during a disbarment proceeding by invoking Fifth Amendment, the bar association can interpret this refusal as an admission of guilt.

NBC News: Election denier who Trump wanted to take over DOJ pleads the fifth amendment in disbarment hearing

An environmental lawyer whom Donald Trump wanted to take over the Justice Department in the days before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a disbarment hearing on Wednesday.

Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department civil lawyer with no criminal law experience, had wanted to investigate a conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen, including via smart thermostats. Just hours before the Jan. 6 attack, Trump nearly made Clark the acting attorney general of the United States but backed off when Justice Department leadership threatened to resign en mass.

Federal authorities searched Clark's home in June 2022, and he now faces criminal charges in Georgia in the state racketeering case against Trump and others. Clark surrendered to authorities in August in that case and entered a not-guilty plea. He is also unindicted co-conspirator no. 4 in the federal election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith against Trump.

Clark briefly testified during a disciplinary hearing unfolding this week before the Ad Hoc Hearing Committee for the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, which is deciding whether Clark should lose his bar license for his involvement in attempts to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss.
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Another election-denying lawyer could be disbarred. No great loss here though, he's a traitor anyway: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-recommends-john-eastman-disbarred-california-rcna145390

Plus he wore a stupid looking hat standing next to an endlessly-grinning Rudy Guiliani on January 6. He should be thrown in jail just because of his stupid outfit.