D.C. bar panel recommends disbarring Jeffrey Clark over election conduct
A D.C. disciplinary panel on July 31, 2025 recommended that Jeffrey Clark be disbarred over conduct tied to his efforts to help Donald Trump challenge the 2020 election results. The recommendation is not final. The case now goes to the D.C. Court of Appeals for review.
Clark, a former senior Justice Department official, has long been a central figure in the post-2020 election legal fight. The disciplinary proceeding focused on his role after the vote, including actions the board said crossed the line into misconduct serious enough to warrant the profession’s harshest penalty.
The recommendation does not itself take away Clark’s law license. It does, however, put the matter before the city’s highest court for attorney discipline, where the panel’s findings and proposed sanction will be reviewed.
The case is part of the wider legal reckoning that has continued to unfold around the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. For Clark, that reckoning now sits with the D.C. Court of Appeals, which will decide whether the recommendation stands.
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