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Gothmog

(143,998 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 10:37 PM Sep 2020

Larry Klayman-A conservative legal gadfly faces the music

I have never liked Klayman and this makes me smile




D.C. Bar officials contend the famously litigious Klayman misrepresented facts, filed meritless legal pleadings and brought frivolous demands for recusal and an ethics complaint against a judge who rejected the hard-charging lawyer’s bid to join the defense team at Bundy’s request.

Klayman insists he’s guilty of nothing more than “zealous advocacy” in the episode. But looming over this week’s hearing is a more epic fight between ethics officials, who say he’s made a specialty out of using the legal system to harass his enemies, and Klayman, who contends he’s the victim of a politically motivated crusade to end his decades as a legal pit bull for conservative causes and figures.

During the 1990s, as he headed Judicial Watch, Klayman became reviled by many in the Clinton administration for forcing aides into bizarre, almost post-modern depositions that often led the witnesses to incur tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills. His antics eventually inspired the writers of “The West Wing” to create a toxic, scandal-chasing character, Harry Klaypool of Freedom Watch. Klayman was thrilled and — after a rancorous break-up with other leaders at Judicial Watch — adopted the fictional name from the TV show as the name of his new organization.

While many on the Washington scene have been waiting for decades for Klayman to get his comeuppance in court, three different ethics cases he is now embroiled in raise questions about how to police a legal system that generally imposes few consequences for filing marginal lawsuits and complaints.
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Larry Klayman-A conservative legal gadfly faces the music (Original Post) Gothmog Sep 2020 OP
Could He Be Disbarred? Me. Sep 2020 #1
His law license may be suspended for a year Gothmog Sep 2020 #4
No pity for the nasty crapweasel UpInArms Sep 2020 #8
Big K&R - detestable since the '90s! UTUSN Sep 2020 #2
Klayman pursued President Clinton with a Javertlike obsession. nt oasis Sep 2020 #3
Let's hope Klayman gets his Just Desserts! Rt.. Cha Sep 2020 #5
Tom Fitton tries to fulfill his legacy to this day. (He's an asshole too) czarjak Sep 2020 #6
Klayman is a disgrace to our profession. This COLGATE4 Sep 2020 #7
I agree Gothmog Sep 2020 #9

Gothmog

(143,998 posts)
4. His law license may be suspended for a year
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 10:54 PM
Sep 2020

From the Politico article cited in OP

The prosecutor in the Bundy-related ethics case, Julia Porter of the D.C. Bar Office of Disciplinary Counsel, initially pressed for Klayman to be disbarred outright, but later pulled back to a recommendation to suspend him for a year and require him to prove his fitness to return to legal practice.

“She says just a year, a reinstatement provision. I’m 69 years old. You know how long a reinstatement provision takes?” Klayman said. “If the sanction that Ms. Porter is recommending goes into effect, I’ll probably never practice law again.”
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