San Francisco, CA USA – June 14, 2025: Activist's at the anti-Trump No King protest at City Hall Plaza demonstrate against the erosion of democracy an dthe move towards fascism. (Photo credit: Phil Pasquini / Shutterstock)
Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman, who warned that President Donald Trump’s drive to take down the “deep state” would bring violence, was disbarred by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The justices barred Klayman from practicing before the high court in a Monday order. They had suspended him on June 8 and ordered him to show why he should not be disbarred, and he filed a response, the order says.
Klayman did not respond to a request for comment from Bloomberg Law, which reported that he has called earlier suspensions in Washington and Florida flawed.
Courts in Washington and Florida suspended Klayman four times between 2020 and 2025 over his conduct toward clients and courts.
The D.C. Court of Appeals suspended him for 90 days in 2020 over a conflict of interest, then for 18 months in 2022 over his handling of Voice of America employee Elham Sataki’s sexual harassment suit, Reuters reported.
“[T]he record includes writings from Klayman in which he expressed to Sataki that his emotions had rendered him nonfunctional as a lawyer,” the Florida Supreme Court wrote in suspending him for two years in November 2025, Reuters reported.
On Aug. 7, 2025, the D.C. court suspended him for another 18 months over his bid to represent Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, finding he broke rules on candor to the court and on false statements tied to a bar admission application, according to the court’s opinion and D.C. Bar records.
The suspensions also cost Klayman his role in a lawsuit brought by far-right activist Laura Loomer, a Trump ally, Reuters reported. A federal magistrate judge suspended him on Feb. 13 from the bar of the court hearing her suit against comedian Bill Maher and HBO, a court filing shows.
On April 22, U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr. threw out the suit, ruling that Maher’s remarks were jokes protected by the First Amendment, FindLaw reported. Loomer had sued over Maher’s joke speculating that she was sleeping with Trump.
“[M]y client, Laura Loomer, by the way, is doing a very good job at exposing these people inside the administration who are not loyal to President Trump,” Klayman said in an Aug. 9, 2025, interview with USAWatchdog host Greg Hunter. “And Trump’s firing.”
Klayman credits Loomer with exposing officials Trump was firing, but by the time a judge threw out her case, he had already been suspended from that court.
In the same interview, Klayman said Trump’s opponents would turn to violence as the administration went after them.
“Trump and his team have come to the conclusion, it’s obvious, that they have to get the left to get the deep state before they get them,” Klayman told Hunter.
“[I]t is going to get much more acute as they see that Trump is pushing more and more ... breaking through occasionally in the courts, when it gets up to the Supreme Court sometimes, and they’re not pure either, believe me, they will resort to violence,” he said.
“[T]here will be violence,” Klayman said, urging viewers to “get a gun” and use it “only defensively.” He said Trump’s foes had to be taken out “legally and peacefully.”
Klayman was urging legal takedowns of Trump’s foes two days after the D.C. court suspended him again, and Monday’s order shut him out of the nation’s highest court.
Klayman made the same “there will be violence” forecast across nearly a year of interviews, tying Trump’s legal fights to violence from the left and telling viewers to arm themselves.
By February 2025, Klayman was urging Trump to disobey the orders of judges who ruled against him.
"Trump should not obey the orders. That is the fastest way to get [a case] to the Supreme Court, and that is not to obey the orders," he told Hunter. "We are going to be in a violent revolution potentially in short order."
“The more they are checked legally, the more set back on their heels legally, the more violent they become, that is why the American people need to arm up,” he told Hunter in January, ZeroHedge reported. “The Left is coming for us.”