Legal system’s patience with ‘birthers’ may have ended
I’m thinking that Orly Taitz, the Queen Advocate of the Birthers, better come up with ten grand pretty quick. Then she should turn her attention to finding another line of work, because her time as an attorney may be coming to an end soon.
Last week, Taitz asked U.S. District Judge Clay Land in Columbus to issue an order that would keep Army Capt. Connie Rhodes from being shipped to Iraq against her will. The stated reason, of course, is that Barack Obama is not native born and thus is an illegitimate commander in chief. In a rather cutting order, Land lambasted the request as frivolous and warned Taitz not to file such bogus litigation in his court.
Land is known as a no-nonsense judge, but on Thursday, Taitz filed an emergency motion to reconsider, citing the same frivolous claims she had offered in the initial lawsuit. Land responded with an order requiring Taitz to explain why she should not be fined $10,000 for contempt. “She continues to file motions that do not address legal issues but that describe the president as a ‘prevaricator,’ allege that the president’s father was ‘disloyal and possibly treacherous’ to the ‘British Crown,’ accuse (Land) of treason, and suggest that the United States District Courts in this Circuit are ‘subservient’ to the ‘illegitimate’ ‘de facto President,’” Land wrote.
It now appears that Taitz filed that second motion without the permission or even knowledge of her client. Shortly before leaving for Iraq, Rhodes wrote Land to say she never authorized the second filing on her behalf and in fact learned of it on the local news.
In the letter, she calls Taitz’ actions “reprehensible and unprofessional” and said she intends to file a complaint with the California Bar Association. The legal system has limits to its patience with such nonsense; I think Taitz may soon find that she has reached beyond those limits.
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Judge Mort
September 21st, 2009
12:50 pm
And by the way, a certificate of live birth = same thing as birth certificate.
Kamchak
September 21st, 2009
12:53 pm
Taitz is at 14:45 of Andy Warhol time.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 21st, 2009
12:58 pm
Birthers….te hee hee hee
joe matarotz
September 21st, 2009
1:01 pm
The judge should raise it another ten grand. What an idiot.
booger
September 21st, 2009
1:05 pm
Can’t believe you seriously spent time and energy on this.
Scooter
September 21st, 2009
1:07 pm
What do you think Taitz is tring to gain? Fame maybe?????
Chilidog
September 21st, 2009
1:09 pm
===”In a rather cutting order”===
That’s putting it mildly. He called her stupider than a fifth grader.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
September 21st, 2009
1:10 pm
What a danged shame! Here we finally got somebody that will take this Kenyan to court and try and get him out of the White House and what does she get? A tongue-lashing from a judge and the threat of a big fine and now CA will probly try and take her law liscence away. I tell you, a good Conservative redneck can’t do nothing these days without a bunch of libruls being all over them like flies on you-know-what.
It’s a conspiracy, is what it is. We need to get another 70,000 Teabaggers together and march on DC and protest this judge and Take Our Country Back! We got a right to see the long form. It might not have more than two lines more than the short form and we might never of asked for it from any other President, but that don’t mean we ain’t got a right to see it.
I’m so disgusted I might not be able to finish this can of weenies. And where’s Sister Dusty when you need some Conservative support. I bet I know where she is. Chowing down on a Burger King whopper and slurping a big milk shake. And us with a country that needs saving! Have a good p.m. everybody.
Bosch
September 21st, 2009
1:10 pm
Mrs. G.,
Exactly.
booger,
I can’t believe some people actually think Obama isn’t a citizen.
Doggone/GA
September 21st, 2009
1:10 pm
“Can’t believe you seriously spent time and energy on this”
It isn’t serious…it’s for that laugh factor.
Bosch
September 21st, 2009
1:11 pm
Scooter,
She’ll be a martyr for all the right wing extremist. She wants to incite violence against the president is my guess.
Hef
September 21st, 2009
1:12 pm
Judge Land you are my hero! It should be a nation wide law if it isn’t already,that if you bring a frivolous lawsuit and lose or have it thrown out you and your lawyer should pay a set fine plus court costs.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 21st, 2009
1:12 pm
I’m pretty sure the obscure “birther” movement will live on in the land of paranoid liberal scare stories for an eternity or so.
Told around the kampfires in the fever swamps for generations to come.
ew
Mrs. Godzilla
September 21st, 2009
1:12 pm
Bosch
Saw this and thought of you – my favorite soccer fan-
http://upnextinsports.com/2009/09/18/sports-pictures-worst-soccer-team/
Taxpayer
September 21st, 2009
1:14 pm
This is one case where I agree with the Republicans on the need for tart reform.
Hef
September 21st, 2009
1:15 pm
And in this case a 3rd fine (STUPID),would be just fine with me.
Bosch
September 21st, 2009
1:16 pm
Mrs. G.,
Oh dear! I’ll just bet it’s really hard to play in those jerseys.
Doggone/GA
September 21st, 2009
1:16 pm
“tart reform.”
If that was deliberate…good one! If it wasn’t, aren’t Freudian slips great?
Mrs. Godzilla
September 21st, 2009
1:19 pm
Bosch
I figure it’s just another opportunity to use double sided tape.
Public Option's A Go
September 21st, 2009
1:22 pm
It’s a very close call as to which is scarier: Orley Taitz in a federal courtroom or the completely delusional Army Lt. Connie Rhodes seeing patients.
Scooter
September 21st, 2009
1:23 pm
She wants to incite violence against the president is my guess.
Bosch, if you are right,I think she is barking up the wrong tree.
Midori
September 21st, 2009
1:24 pm
well Andy — now you know.
wer’e not laughing with you.
we are laughing AT you.
GayGrayGeek
September 21st, 2009
1:25 pm
Midori – I`ve been laughing at the Cut-n-Paste-Bot for at least a couple of years now.
NetBanker
September 21st, 2009
1:25 pm
I’m so disappointed. From the title, I thought the editorial was going to be about people illegally entering the country just to give birth so that they can have a foothold in the U.S. That is a law/precedent that I think should be changed. In my opinion a child birthed on U.S. territory to non-citizens shouldn’t automatically be granted citizenship.
Jackie
September 21st, 2009
1:25 pm
I wonder why the blog is not filled with the so-called conservatives asserting this ruling is by an “activist, liberal judge?”
Midori
September 21st, 2009
1:26 pm
GGG – want to bet he’s mooning us for rebuttal?
Midori
September 21st, 2009
1:27 pm
Jackie,
wasn’t Land appointed by Bush?
GayGrayGeek
September 21st, 2009
1:28 pm
Midori, it`s not like he doesn`t enjoy showing off his butt, in post after post after cut-n-pasted post. `=)
stands for decibels
September 21st, 2009
1:29 pm
Can’t believe you seriously spent time and energy on this.
Booger’s lament made me go and check to see what is the top story over at that parallel universe “news” site, foxnews dot com.
And I kidyou not–this is what sits in the coveted top-right corner:
EXCLUSIVE: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis ignores repeated calls to testify before Congress on the embattled activist group’s finances and ties to other organizations.
Repeated!
Midori
September 21st, 2009
1:33 pm
Stands,
the loons all go nuts for ACORN.
david wayne osedach
September 21st, 2009
1:35 pm
Slap her with a couple of more ‘nuisance’ $10,000 fines. She’ll shut up.
Taxpayer
September 21st, 2009
1:35 pm
Someone needs to give Orly an epidural.
Midori
September 21st, 2009
1:39 pm
WHICH is WHICH?
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoons/RogerR/2009/RogerR20090920_low.jpg
Public Option's A Go
September 21st, 2009
1:42 pm
From one vegetable to another: Sarah Palin’s advice to Carrie Prejean: Ah kin see topless pithbrains from here and Russha too, and but also
http://bit.ly/Lsc11
Shorter: We need more morons in politics.
Scooter
September 21st, 2009
1:43 pm
Mrs. G, I just had to look at that link you left for Bosch even though I am not a soccer fan. I now consider myself a soccer fan! Don’t know if my heart will stand it though.
AmVet
September 21st, 2009
1:43 pm
It’s gotta blow chunks being a die-hard Republiconned these days.
You’ve got most of the nation either laughing at you, your moronic ideas and endless nonsense (like this birth certificate cr@p) or despising you for enabling the greatest and most deadly screw ups in our nation’s history.
And in less than three years suffered two epic slaughters at the polls, having a “RINO” win your imploding party’s nomination and enduring MASSIVE defections…
USinUK
September 21st, 2009
1:43 pm
Hi guys –
did I miss anything today???
as far as Orly Taitz goes … am I the only person who is reminded of Ava Gabor in Green Acres everytime she openes her yap??? I keep expecting her to show up on MSNBC wearing a peignoir with feathers …
GayGrayGeek
September 21st, 2009
1:46 pm
Taxpayer – At first, I thought she took her name from the LOLcats stuff- ORLY?
pat
September 21st, 2009
1:47 pm
These people are idiots. I wish they’d go away. There is enough real issues with out having to make stuff up…
Is the drought over?
Chilidog
September 21st, 2009
1:47 pm
NetBanker, you are advocating the repeal of the 14th amendment to the Constitution.
Actually you’d have to repeal the amendment, and then enact a new one that specifically reverses 400 years of common law precedence.
stands for decibels
September 21st, 2009
1:51 pm
am I the only person who is reminded of Ava Gabor in Green Acres everytime she openes her yap???
Eva.
And as I recall, her “Lisa Douglas” character may have been a bit of a dingbat, but she certainly never tried to harm anyone.
Joey
September 21st, 2009
1:52 pm
Birthers are an embarrassment to the US.
Exactly like Truthers were and are an embarrassment to the US.
But on a lighter note. On the AJC internet site I saw a photo of Tina Fey from last night. The caption identified her as:
“Sarah Palin impersonator Tina Fey”.
Scooter
September 21st, 2009
1:53 pm
USinUK, does Orly look like Ava? Never seen Orly! ?????
Mrs. Godzilla
September 21st, 2009
1:53 pm
“”But Taitz wasn’t finished. She marched her troops straight over to the secretary of state’s office and did the exact same presentation all over again. Then she headed to the FBI to do it a third time. And the whole time, she never stopped talking:
Goldman Sachs runs the treasury.
Obama is a puppet.
There’s a cemetery somewhere in Arizona where they just dug 30,000 fresh graves, which wait now for the revolution.
Baxter International — a major Obama contributor — developed a vaccine for bird flu that actually kills people.
Google Congressman Alcee Hastings and House Bill 684 and you’ll see that they’re planning at least six civilian labor camps.
Google an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about train cars with shackles.
The communist dictator Hugo Chavez way back in 2004 purchased the Sequoia software that runs our voting machines and the mainstream media won’t report any of it — not even Fox because Saudi Arabia bought a percentage of Fox in 2007.
Read more:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/obama-birth-certificate-update-081109#ixzz0RlTkX2Ry
Public Option's A Go
September 21st, 2009
1:56 pm
Ads against blue dogs and Repubozos opposing public option unleashed in droves.
http://www.actblue.com/page/snoweaccountability?refcode=poh_3
Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee are turning their fire to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) with the below ad, slated to run for as long as they’re able to fund it in Maine and Washington, DC. The groups highlight new polling data which shows that the choice of a public option has broad support in Maine, but particularly among Democrats and Independents.
Snowe proposed an amendment to the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform bill that would allow for a weak, state by state public option that would only be instituted if private insurers fail to bring down premiums and expand coverage on their own. In other words, there’s a lot of convincing to be done.
When private insurance plans bring down premiums on their own, Angelina Jolet will cook dinner for you every night, and all opposition to US in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq will lay down their arms and crawl on their bellies like puppy dogs. And so but also you betcha.
USinUK
September 21st, 2009
1:57 pm
dB –
okay, Mr. Spelling Guy … Eva … Orly Taitz (the name still sounds like a beer snack) hasn’t tried to actually HARM anyone … she’s just pursuing the American Dream of her 15 seconds … move over Greta Van Sustren!
Scooter …
as far as her looks … well … she’s blonde … but it ends there … she has the goggly-eyes of a muppet, but that’s just my opinion.
mm
September 21st, 2009
1:59 pm
Joey,
What’s your point. Fey will be forever known as the impersonator of the biggest moron and fraud to ever appear in national politics.
Normal
September 21st, 2009
1:59 pm
Good old Orly. She reminds us of our right of free speech and our constitutional right to use that free speech to make a fool of ones self..that is, up until you get fined ten grand for it…I love America!
Public Option's A Go
September 21st, 2009
1:59 pm
Private insurance will bring down their premiums due to triggers after writing the Baucus default and now dead bill when Angelina Jolie cooks dinner for you. You can count on it.
Those of you who support Faux Noise are supporting porn in a big way.
Owner Ruper Murdoch is the inventor of the Page3 girl and owns DirectTV, probably the nation’s No. 1 provider of porn
Southern Repubozos are the biggest consumers of porn in the US
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html
Doggone/GA
September 21st, 2009
2:00 pm
“okay, Mr. Spelling Guy … Eva ”
In this case, it isn’t just spelling…Eva & Ava are sisters