Larry Klayman
| Larry Klayman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Larry Elliot Klayman July 20, 1951 Philadelphia |
| Education | Harriton High School Rosemont, Pennsylvania (1969) |
| Alma mater |
Duke University (1974) Emory University Law School (1977) |
| Occupation | Attorney, activist |
| Political party | Republican |
Larry Elliot Klayman (born July 20, 1951) is a politically conservative American lawyer and former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor who has been called a "Clinton nemesis" for his dozens of lawsuits against the Bill Clinton administration in the 1990s. The founder of Judicial Watch and the government watchdog group Freedom Watch, he has brought legal action against former Vice President Dick Cheney, President Barack Obama,OPEC, Iran, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and the National Security Agency (NSA). In the last case, a federal judge ruled in December 2013 that the NSA's bulk collection of telephony metadata violated the Fourth Amendment.
Larry Klayman graduated with honors from Duke University with a B.A. in Political Science and French Literature. He received his J.D. from Emory University Law School.
Klayman founded Judicial Watch in 1994. During his tenure, Judicial Watch filed several lawsuits against Bill Clinton and his presidential administration. In response, Bill Clinton needled Klayman during a presidential press conference in 1999.
Klayman left Judicial Watch to pursue political office. In 2004, Klayman ran for the United States Senate from Florida but lost in the United States Republican Party primary, finishing seventh out of eight candidates. After his run for the U.S. Senate, Klayman formed Freedom Watch. He says the name originated from an NBC episode of The West Wing in which he was caricatured as Harry Claypool.
...
Wikipedia