Larry Klayman Denied (For A Second Time) Chance To Defend Cliven Bundy

FILE - In this May 6, 2004 file photo, Miami attorney Larry Klayman speaks in Melbourne, Fla. Larry Klayman might not be an all-around household name, but it’s a good bet he has sued someone who is. U.S. District C... FILE - In this May 6, 2004 file photo, Miami attorney Larry Klayman speaks in Melbourne, Fla. Larry Klayman might not be an all-around household name, but it’s a good bet he has sued someone who is. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon on Monday granted Klayman’s request for an injunction blocking the collection of phone data for Klayman and co-plaintiff Charles Strange. The judge stayed the action pending an expected government appeal, but the ruling in his favor in federal court puts Klayman back in the headlines with his legal activism. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove, File) MORE LESS
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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is having a hard time getting the lawyer he wants to back him up in a Nevada court.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Larry Klayman, a D.C.-based conservative attorney and conspiracy theorist, was refused permission from the judge in the case (for a second time) to join Bundy’s legal defense on Tuesday.

The Review-Journal writes that Nevada federal judge Gloria Navarro blocked Klayman from job until he can show her that the “’ethical disciplinary’ proceedings against him in Washington, D.C., have been resolved in his favor.” The newspaper cited documents that showed the Washington bar was looking into Klayman for allegedly having “conflicts of interest “in cases “involving Judicial Watch.”

Klayman, who has been outspoken about his belief that President Obama is Muslim, is known in conservative circles for his ambitious litigation appetite, having brought numerous suits against the Clinton in the 1990s and launching D.C.-based groups Freedom Watch and Judicial Watch.

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  1. Larry Klayman is the only attorney on earth who could end up getting you a death sentence for stealing a jawbreaker out of a gumball machine.
    You would think that this stupid motherfucker would at least watch a few reruns of “Law and Order”. Where did he get his law degree, out of a box of Cocoa Crispies?

  2. “This president is not a president of We the People; he’s a president of his people. … I do not advocate violent revolution; to the contrary … I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to put the Koran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up.”
    —Speech at an October 2013 rally on Capitol Hill during which Klayman called on the assembled crowd to “Occupy Washington”

    “I am more than embarrassed and appalled as a Jew to see my own people at the forefront of a number of scandals now perpetrated by the Muslim-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, and his leftist Jewish government comrades and partners in crime.”
    —2013 column for WorldNetDaily in which Klayman, a Jewish-born convert to Christianity, lamented the “Ethical Decline of Liberal Jewish Intelligentsia”

    “This country belongs to us, not you. This land is our land! And, we will fight you will [sic] all legal means, including exercising our legitimate Second Amendment rights of self-defense, to end your tyranny and restore freedom to our shores!”
    —2014 column for WorldNetDaily in which Klayman encouraged armed militiamen to take on “government goons” and oppose “modern-day despotism”

    https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/larry-klayman

  3. Just wait until Larry gets on his horse about Sanders being Jewish!

  4. Years ago in the courtroom where I worked a member of his law firm appeared to argue for a writ of mandate. Dumb as a rock, totally unable to understand how to serve a writ.

  5. Avatar for bp bp says:

    This guy is a pest! He is always tilting at Washington’s windmills. His name “Klayman” says it all. He can make and remake issues that ensure that his vehicle judicial watch is always in Court. And he scribbles at the WorldNUTDaily.

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