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D.C. madam defender has a new target: Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
washingtonpost.com ^ | 2/3/16 | Elise Viebeck

Posted on 02/03/2016 4:02:14 PM PST by cotton1706

Congressional leaders have spent ten months in a quiet legal battle with Montgomery Blair Sibley, a local resident who wants a judge to force them to call a constitutional convention.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are working to dismiss the case filed by Sibley, who is best known for representing the so-called D.C. madam in 2007, suing the Supreme Court for treason and alleging in multiple lawsuits that President Obama was not born in the United States.

"It's time the states had a word in how our country is going to be governed," Sibley said in a phone interview Monday.

Sibley, a descendant of the family that established Blair House on Lafayette Square, claims that Ryan, McConnell and former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) failed in their "absolute duty" to call a convention once more than two-thirds of states applied. He argues that threshold has been passed, counting 35 applications by various states since 1901.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conventionofstates

1 posted on 02/03/2016 4:02:14 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: Jacquerie; Publius

ping


2 posted on 02/03/2016 4:02:31 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
Haha...has Paul Ryan been getting a wee bit on the side?
3 posted on 02/03/2016 4:03:55 PM PST by RoosterRedux (When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. - Mark Twain)
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To: cotton1706

DC Madam? The one *they* made sure was dead so she couldn’t drop a dime on these sleazy politicians who go to prostitutes.

Every day I loathe these politicians even more.


4 posted on 02/03/2016 4:04:14 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: cotton1706
This is Walker v. US all over again. On the day that the Electoral College chose Bush in 2000, I helped Bill Walker file his suit in federal court. I had spent the previous two years editing his brief, which was not brief at all. It filled two entire loose-leaf binders and was effectively a graduate level course in the history of Article V.

Judge John Coughenor in Seattle, a Reagan appointee, dismissed it for lack of standing and "futility." Appeals to higher federal courts were denied cert. Our own FReeper "Congressman Billybob," the late John Armour, a constitutional lawyer based in Asheville (NC), walked me through the logic and explained why no federal court would entertain such a suit. It had to do with the Single Subject provision, something not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but understood as a function of contract law, with a tradition that spans over two centuries.

No federal court will agree to hear this case.

5 posted on 02/03/2016 4:11:06 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: cotton1706
Sibley is no longer licensed to practice law.
6 posted on 02/03/2016 4:14:09 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian; cotton1706; RoosterRedux; ladyjane; Publius
This attorney may have had his own ambitions for assuming residency in the White House link & 2014 press releases? He has a blog ...his 2009 About me page
7 posted on 02/03/2016 4:16:39 PM PST by wtd
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To: cotton1706

Well we all know Mitch would have to go to a knocking shop to get any.


8 posted on 02/03/2016 4:19:53 PM PST by mylife
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To: ladyjane

“DC Madam? The one *they* made sure was dead so she couldn’t drop a dime on these sleazy politicians who go to prostitutes.”

She left her sister two suicide notes. I don’t like politicians either but there is no need to make stuff up.


9 posted on 02/03/2016 4:20:29 PM PST by kcvl
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10 posted on 02/03/2016 4:42:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Publius

Interesting...

I miss Congressman Billybob, he was a FReeper stalwart.


11 posted on 02/03/2016 4:43:56 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

He could explain constitutional issues in laymen’s language. We all miss his voice.


12 posted on 02/03/2016 4:45:37 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: cotton1706
...constitutional convention...

An Article V Convention of the States is not a "constitutional convention."

13 posted on 02/03/2016 4:48:57 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: kcvl

The DC Madam was clearly eliminated. She was visiting her mother and feared for her life. Her appointment secretary was eliminated weeks earlier.

You really believe two women died within weeks of each other? By hanging? Women do not commit suicide by hanging.

I figure you are with the CIA or maybe just want to believe that our government doesn’t assassinate anyone. LOL

Maybe your presidential candidate was a client of the DC Madam?


14 posted on 02/03/2016 6:15:47 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Palfrey’s two handwritten notes were released to the public. In one of them, she wrote to her sister, “You must comprehend there was no way out, I.E. ‘exit strategy,’ for me other than the one I have chosen here.” In another, she described her predicament as a “modern-day lynching”. She said she feared that, at the end of serving her sentence, she would be “in my late 50s a broken, penniless and very much alone woman”.


15 posted on 02/03/2016 6:23:43 PM PST by kcvl
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To: ladyjane

The police stated that Palfrey’s family believed the notes were written by Palfrey.

Journalist Dan Moldea, who was working with Palfrey on a book, recalled that in a 2007 conversation, Palfrey told him, “I am not going back to prison. I will commit suicide first.” He said her previous prison experience had traumatized her and she felt she couldn’t do it again.


16 posted on 02/03/2016 6:26:05 PM PST by kcvl
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To: ladyjane

Madam” Deborah Jean Palfrey wrote suicide notes to her mother and sister explaining that she hanged herself because she couldn’t bear the thought of a future in prison.

I want you to know how very much I love and appreciate you,” Palfrey, 52, wrote in sprawling script to her mother in one of the notes released Monday by police. “However, I cannot live the next 6-8 years behind bars for what both you and I have come to regard as this ‘modern day lynching,’ only to come out of prison in my late 50s a broken, penniless and very much alone woman.”

Last month, a federal jury convicted Palfrey of money laundering and racketeering charges in connection to what prosecutors described as a high-end prostitution ring whose clients included members of Washington’s political and social elite.

The note was one of two left behind by Palfrey, one addressed to her mother, Blanche Palfrey, and the other to her younger sister Bobbie, according to Tarpon Springs, Fla., police. One bore the instructions: “Do not revive.”

Palfrey told her sister to “be strong for mom.”

“You must comprehend that there was no other way out, i.e., ‘exit strategy,’ other than the one I have chosen here,” she wrote. “Know I am at peace, with complete certainty, I believe Dad is standing watch — prepared to guide me into the light.”

Palfrey was staying at her mother’s home in a trailer park in Tarpon Springs, near Tampa, at the time of her death. Authorities said the letters were found by the night stand next to the bed where she had been sleeping.

“Copies have been supplied to the mother and sister, who confirmed that they were written by Deborah,” Police Capt. Jeffrey P. Young said in a statement.

alfrey took her own life Thursday morning in a shed next to her mother’s house. Blanche Palfrey, who is 76, discovered her daughter hanging from a metal beam inside the shed and made a frantic call to 911.

The medical examiner has ruled that the cause of death was suicide by hanging; toxicology reports are pending, police said Monday.

Addressing rampant rumors that Palfrey was murdered in an attempt to keep her from revealing more names of her well-known clients, Young said detectives had found no evidence indicating that Palfrey died by any means other than suicide.


17 posted on 02/03/2016 6:30:10 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

And Vince committed suicide too and then he drove himself from the White House to the park.

Do you really think they were going let the DC Madam her release the names of her clients? Clients who included US Senators and representatives?

If you were her mother, do you really think you would say anything that would put you in the cross hairs of the people who killed your daughter.

And finally, do you really think two women decided to hang themselves within a short period of time. Women don’t kill themselves this way. Not two women who knew our famous politicians who were clients of a prostitute ring.


18 posted on 02/03/2016 6:45:46 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Oh, please, stop with the conspiracy theories.


19 posted on 02/03/2016 6:50:46 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Oh please, do you really think Mary Pinchot was murdered by the poor black guy who just happened to be in the neighborhood?

I knew someone who just happened to be living in DC when she was murdered. It was clear to anyone who lived in NW Washington that she was murdered.

Do you think there is even one insurance company in the world who would write a policy for a DC madam if they knew who she was?


20 posted on 02/03/2016 7:14:16 PM PST by ladyjane
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