Judge Clay Land, a Bush appointee, dismissed one of the roughly 12 million birther suits filed by Orly Taitz, this one on behalf of a soldier claiming she can't be deployed to Iraq by Obama because he's not legitimately the commander-in-chief. And he minced few words in declaring the case frivolous and telling Taitz that if she files another one in his district, she'll be subject to sanctions (see the full ruling here).
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After conducting a hearing on Plaintiff's motion, the Court finds that Plaintiff's claims are frivolous. Accordingly, her application for a temporary restraining order is denied, and her Complaint is dismissed in its entirety. Furthermore, Plaintiff's counsel is hereby notified that the filing of any future actions in this Court, which are similarly frivolous, shall subject counsel to sanctions.
The entire ruling is well worth a read.
Oh. man, the judge really let her have it, didn't he?
Judge Land wrote:
Unlike in Alice in Wonderland, simply saying something is so does not make it so.
I agree that it's well worth taking a few minutes to read the entire ruling. It was quite entertaining, I must say...
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 9/21/2009, 12:17 pm
At the rate this is going there may end up being a shortage of
Taitz, of course, didn't seem to listen. Instead, she filed an angry motion asking Land to reconsider his decision and stay Rhodes' deployment. Apparently unaware of that old saying about catching more flies with honey than with vinegar (not true, incidentally, but that's an issue for another time), Taitz essentially accused the judge of committing treason. And, referring to the U.S. District Court on which Land serves, she wrote, "there is increasing evidence that the United States District Courts in the 11th Circuit are subject to political pressure, external control, and, mostly (sic) likely, subservience to the same illegitimate chain of command which Plaintiff has previously protested in this case, except that the de facto President is not even nominally the Commander-in-Chief of the Article III Judiciary."
For some reason, Land wasn't especially happy about this.
In an order issued Friday, Land denied Taitz's request and announced that he was considering making good on his threat of sanctions. He ordered the attorney-slash-dentist "to show cause why the Court should not impose a monetary penalty of $10,000.00 upon Plaintiff’s counsel for her misconduct," and gave her 14 days to do so.
Land also took a swipe at Taitz's performance as an attorney, writing at one point that "competent counsel would have understood" one part of the law that was at issue. The implication was obvious.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 9/21/2009, 8:51 pm
More This just keeps getting better and better. The ex-client is now going to file a complaint against Taitz with the Calif Bar....Go to the link for the complete details...
Taitz: Ex-Client's Letter Renouncing Me In Birther Case May Be A Forgery Justin Elliott | September 21, 2009, 1:59PM
Oh sweet irony.
Birther attorney Orly Taitz tells TPMmuckraker she believes a letter sent by her now ex-client renouncing Taitz -- in a case alleging that Barack Obama's birth certificate is a forgery -- may itself be a forgery. It's worth noting that Taitz submitted as evidence in the original filing in the "birther soldier" case of Army Capt. Connie Rhodes a "Kenyan birth certificate" that is itself an obvious forgery. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/taitz_client_letter_renouncing_me_may_be_forgery.php?ref=mp
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 9/26/2009, 9:10 pm
For a $30.00 "gift" they'll fax your suspicions to all 50 state attorney generals
Highlight Reel: Birther-mercial Asks Where Was Obama Born? Highlight reel of birther infomercial running on a CBS affiliate in Texas and elsewhere around the country, September 25, 2009 full video at http://www.liveprayer.com/obc.cfm
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 9/28/2009, 1:31 pm
When we last checked in on the Birther lawsuit Attorney Orly Taitz is pursuing in federal court, Taitz's client, Army Capt. Connie Rhodes, was denouncing Taitz and threatening her with a bar complaint. And the judge had given Taitz until October 2 to explain why he shouldn't fine her $10,000 for repeated frivolous filings.
Now, in a new motion filed Saturday in U.S. district court in Georgia, Taitz "respectfully" requests that she be allowed to withdraw as Rhodes' counsel. (Rhodes, who has deployed to Iraq, already requested that Taitz no longer represent her.)
But here's the twist: Taitz says her motive for seeking to withdraw as counsel is to be able to divulge "privileged attorney-client communications" and to "offer evidence and call witnesses whose testimony will be adverse to her (former) client's most recently stated position in this case."
It's not clear what evidence or witnesses Taitz is referring to.
In light of the judge's threat of sanctions, the case, Taitz says, "is now a quasi-criminal prosecution of the undersigned attorney, for the purpose of punishment."
Read her full motion here. We suspect that Judge Clay Land of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, who has twice roundly denounced Taitz and Birther ideology, won't be too pleased with her proposal to call witnesses in response to his threat of sanctions. Could another colorful order from Land be in the pipeline?
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 10/5/2009, 2:50 pm
What do Orly Taitz and Thurgood Marshall have in common? Nothing! But I guess his name looks good on a frivolous motion And can anyone explain to me what Microsoft and Comcast have to do with this? Oh,and don't call her a "birther" either.....
Taitz represented Army Capt. Connie Rhodes when she filed a Sept. 4 complaint arguing Rhodes shouldn’t be deployed to Iraq because Obama couldn’t legitimately hold office. Land not only ruled against Rhodes, but ordered Taitz to explain why he should not fine her $10,000 for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit.
On Friday, Taitz asked for an extension to respond to that order, but also asked that Land recuse himself from the case. In her motion for recusal, Taitz:
* States Land may have improperly been in contact with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
* States that Land’s ownership of stock in Microsoft and Comcast could give the judge a financial stake in the outcome.
* Likens her plight to that of the late civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall in the 1940s and ’50s.
“The primary reason for the undersigned counsel to file this motion to recuse, however, is that Judge Clay D. Land has by his own actions created a constitutionally intolerable situation in which he is both complaining party, prosecuting attorney, judge and jury regarding the charges of frivolous filing and sanctionable conduct which he has leveled ...” Taitz states.
“What, for example, was ever more political in 20th century Georgia than the question of school desegregation?” Taitz asks. “Surely this distinguished southern judge would have jailed Thurgood Marshall in the 1940s and ’50s for contempt when the future Supreme Court justice repeatedly filed cases demanding on constitutional as well as social and psychological grounds the desegregation of primary and secondary public schools against well-established precedents such as Plessy v. Fergusson …”
Taitz also states that she suspects Land’s decisions may have been influenced by the government and questions whether his orders were guided by someone else or based only on what she called his “blind personal prejudice.” Either way, Taitz states, Land should recuse himself.
Taitz also objected to Land’s use of the word “birther” in his earlier rulings.
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 10/5/2009, 5:08 pm
Some idiots just don't learn.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 10/13/2009, 9:01 pm
Somehow I don't think we've heard the last of this
Reached on her cell phone by TPMmuckraker and informed of the [url=Reached on her cell phone by TPMmuckraker and informed of the $20,000 fine imposed on her by a federal judge this morning, Birther attorney Orly Taitz responded, first, with laughter.
"So he didn't recuse himself?" Taitz asked, after letting out an extended, nervous-sounding chuckle.
Still defiant after months of legal wrangling and, by our count, three written denunciations by federal district court Judge Clay Land, Taitz said she had absolutely no plans to pay the $20,000 fine.
"Are you kidding? Of course not," she said, asked whether she planned to send a check. "This is a form of intimidation."
Instead, she plans to file yet another written response (though it's unclear whether the court will even accept one).
"I'll go to the circuit court of appeals. I'll take this as high as I have to go," Taitz said.
Asked about the judge's promise to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney if she didn't pay within 30 days, Taitz said she'd have to take a look at the order.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 10/14/2009, 8:45 pm
On page 27, explaining why it’s good that Congress, not the courts, are in charge of removing presidents from office:
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“Or perhaps an eccentric citizen has become convinced that the President is an alien from Mars, and the courts should order DNA testing to enforce the Constitution [7] ...”
“[7] The Court does not make this observation simply as a rhetorical device for emphasis; the Court has actually received correspondence assailing its previous order in which the sender, who, incidentally, challenged the undersigned to a “round of fisticuffs on the Courthouse Square,” asserted that the President is not human.”
The corresponder sounds an awful lot like Zell Miller to me.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 10/15/2009, 5:20 pm
Orly Taitz doesn't take defeat lightly -- if she did, the lead lawyer in the Birther movement would have given up tilting at windmills a long time ago. So it's not surprising that her reaction to the news that U.S. District Judge Clay Land has imposed a $20,000 sanction on her for her conduct in one lawsuit before his court is an angry one.
In a post on her blog , headlined, "How mcuh criminal activity do they need to cover up, for them to attack me so viciously," Taitz wrote:
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In regards to Judge Clay Land, his outrageous decision to sanction me $20,000 for repeatedly bringing eligibility issue, shows how far this regime will go to harass and intimidate attorneys who dare to question Obama’s legitimacy.
Anybody with half a brain in his head understands that if judge Land really believed that my law suits were frivolous, the easiest way to prove it, would be to order discovery. If Obama is legitimate, he would’ve shown proof of legitimacy. The fact that this judge decided to try to intimidate me with $20,000 of sanctions instead of ordering Obama to spend $10 on a copy of his hospital birth certificate and a hospital birthing file, shows how corrupt this regime is, how many in federal judiciary are aiding and abetting this massive fraud perpetrated on each and every member of US military and each and every citizen of this country. That is a sign of a dictatorial regime, of tyranny.
Taitz has also said that she will not pay the sanction, and will appeal it "as high as I have to go."
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 10/29/2009, 4:52 pm
Another one bites the dust. I can't wait for Orly's reaction:)
A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed one of Orly Taitz's birther lawsuits, saying it would be unconstitutional for the courts to "effectively overthrow a sitting president."
In his ruling, Judge David O. Carter said the plaintiffs, represented by Taitz, had asked the courts to go outside their constitutional power by demanding President Obama produce further documentation proving he was born in the United States, and if he couldn't, shutting down the federal government and holding an election.
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"Plaintiffs have attacked the judiciary, including every prior court that has dismissed their claim, as unpatriotic and even treasonous for refusing to grant their requests and for adhering to the terms of the Constitution which set forth its jurisdiction," Carter wrote. "Respecting the constitutional role and jurisdiction of this Court is not unpatriotic."
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 10/31/2009, 8:51 am
Birther movement leader Orly Taitz is planning a protest in New York City this weekend against a television personality who refuses to air her insane conspiracy theories -- Fox News' Bill O'Reilly.
The protest is set to take place on Veterans Day, November 11th outside FOX headquarters in Midtown.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 12/3/2009, 7:00 pm
Nothing like a new conspiracy theory to go with that $20,000 fine she still hasn't paid....
Obama birthplace attorney files new allegations “There was a concerted and a well orchestrated effort by a number of individuals to assassinate my character, endanger my law license and ultimately derail my case against Mr. Obama,” Taitz writes in the document filed with the federal court today. “A number of criminal activities were perpetrated upon this court.”
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 12/28/2009, 3:51 pm
The word for this is “strange.” For much of 2009, a disbarred attorney named Charles Lincoln played key roles in Orly Taitz’s multiple “birther” lawsuits against President Obama. Lincoln claimed to be a “law clerk” for Taitz, and he showed up again and again to file documents or assist her in court.
Last week, Lincoln went on his personal blog and filed a lengthy, emotional post confessing that he had fallen in love with Taitz — who is married — and been used by a “disloyal and treacherous person.”
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By mid-October, when we were in New York together and Lucas Smith published his “declaration”, I had wrapped my life around Orly’s and I guess I honestly believed she had wrapped hers around mine and she said over and over again how much she was committed to me and how she never wanted us to separate. Three weeks later she had abandoned me, and yet some people have the nerve to call ME mentally unstable! I am honest about where I come from. Orly is not. Orly used her words and promises to induce me as long as she wanted and then she dumped me with no regard to her promises whatsoever.
Lincoln attacks Taitz as an incompetent attorney who makes rash, stupid decisions, and has wasted the time and money of the “birther” movement — whose cause, he still believes, is just.
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Orly’s lack of judgment in the handling of our relationship exactly paralleled her lack of judgment in handling the constitutional eligibility litigation. She needed me and probably still needs me in every possible way, but I don’t have her husband’s money and so she chose to DUMP me, to DUMP real love, for the illusion of piles of federal reserve notes and other credits, and she goes on with her reckless rage and fire.
Read the whole thing, and understand why I’ve been less concerned with Taitz than with the elected Republicans who have been willing to jump on board with this conspiracy.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 2/1/2010, 9:44 pm
Orly Taitz, the dentist and lawyer whose birther lawsuits we've been following, filed a new suit in D.C. District Court Wednesday: Dr. Orly Taitz v. Barack Hussein Obama.
The suit, like Taitz's others, claims President Obama is not a U.S. citizen and demands his birth certificate.
It also alleges that Attorney General Eric Holder has ignored her allegations and calls to the Justice Department -- a "game of hide and seek," she says, that's "infantile at best and treasonous at worst."
Taitz also said on her blog this week that she is considering running for state office in California, either for attorney general or secretary of state, so she could sue Obama for his records.
Heretic
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 2/2/2010, 10:24 am
Awesome.
KarenT
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 2/2/2010, 4:47 pm
So whatever happened with that soldier this thread is about? Did he go?
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 2/2/2010, 5:15 pm
KarenT wrote:
So whatever happened with that soldier this thread is about? Did he go?
I'm pretty sure he hasn't gone. That would have definitely made news. The case is on appeal.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 2/22/2010, 6:07 pm
Even the writers at the "Onion" would have had trouble coming up with a headline like this.....
I try not to write about every development in the career of Orly Taitz, but I have to make an exception for her appeal to the United Nations for “urgent action under the mandate for human rights defenders.” Her attorney, Jonathan Levy, writes that Taitz is under “increasing legal attack in the United States from groups and individuals opposed to her legal actions challenging the Constitutional qualifications of Barrack Hussein Obama to hold the office of President of the United States.”
The irony of Taitz appealing to the hated organ of world government for this really goes without saying.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 3/9/2010, 9:00 am
In recent days, Taitz has announced that she filed the inital paperwork signaling an intention to run for office, blasted Dunn as a "Republican in name only" (because he doesn't care about "eligibility"), and called on supporters to lobby Dunn to stop running. She'd ask him herself, but...
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Please, let me know if any of you talked to Damon Dunn, and if he is willing to drop out of the Secretary of State race? I don't have his phone and address. I only know that he lives in Irvine, CA.
That's understandable. After all, the "Contact Damon" button on Dunn's website is hidden up at the top of the page, underneath the campaign logo. And it's written in English.
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 3/16/2010, 6:38 pm
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Orly Taitz's appeal of the $20,000 fine imposed on her for making frivolous filings in a long-running Birther case.
"We have fully considered Taitz's arguments," the ruling from a three-judge panel reads. "We find them unpersuasive and therefore affirm the district court's sanctions judgment."
Artie60438
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 4/14/2010, 8:21 pm
How long before Orly Taitz injects herself into this? Army to court martial 'birther' officer Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:10 PM by Mark Murray Filed Under: Security
From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski and Mark Murray U.S. military officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Army will court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be "illegal."
Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin believes Obama does not meet the constitutional requirements to be president and commander-in-chief, because he believes (incorrectly) that Obama wasn't born in the United States.
Lakin refused this week to report to Fort Campbell, KY for deployment to Afghanistan, but instead showed up at the Pentagon, where he was confronted by his brigade Commander Col. Gordon Roberts, a Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient.
A federal judge has dismissed a Washington lawsuit by "birther" activist Orly Taitz challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship.
Taitz, a dentist and lawyer from California known for her occasional TV news appearances, filed a "quo warranto" complaint challenging Obama's status as a natural born citizen and demanding that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provide a copy of the president's birth certificate.
The case landed with Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who, suffice it to say, was having none of it.
"This is one of several such suits filed by Ms. Taitz in her quixotic attempt to prove that President Obama is not a natural born citizen as required by [the] Constitution," Lamberth wrote in a decision published on Wednesday. "This Court is not willing to go tilting at windmills with her."
Nice touch though trying to drag Hillary Clinton into the nonsense.
UrRight
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Subject: Re: Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president 4/19/2010, 3:34 pm
Though things may have changed since the late 1970s, when I was approached by a "Civil Servant Commissioner" in a classroom based on grades ethics, and filling important "typing pools", I guarantee you back then, they interviewed everyone on my block, my teachers, my everyone I may know to check out credibility..
Once I got in the "typing pool", after a year I was assigned to administrative and investigations on potential employees. The first requirement was to verify legal USA satus. No immigrants. There were strict guideline, as to who's application we rejected, who's application we forwarded for considerable employment.
Things may have changed since then, but one requirement did not: YOU HAD TO SHOW YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE. The ORIGINAL ONE, signed, stamped, and embossed. No copies.
That should put an end to this non-sense...unless the USA is now so crooked that it doesn't matter.
It's called "Office of Personnel Management," formerly the Civil Service Commission. Unless they found ways to by-pass the rules, then they have a case for Obama.This office processes all gov't workers, or potential candidates for higher office.
Located at the 219 Dearborn Street, used to be the 28th floor. Call the Regional Director if you want evidence of his birth certificate.
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