I read the order to she if she was being sanctioned merely for challenging Nilbama’s credentials. She was not. She was sanctioned for being a nut—and it’s okay to be a nut, you just can’t use a law license to impose your nuttiness on the legal system.
Among other things, she moved to have the judge recused because he owned stock in Microsoft, she pursued the case after it was moot (the reservist’s orders to go to Afghanistan were withdrawn), she held news conferences to call the judge names, she accused the judge of ethical misconduct without any proof. It did kind of “border on delusional”.
Her telling the judge to “shove it” isn’t going to help her get an appeals hearing.
It wasnt her cause that got her in trouble, it was her conduct. She has a mail order law degree, very little courtroom experience, continually made mistakes in her motions and she attacked the integrity of the judge. That is a sure fire recipe for disaster. She does not need to be the point person for this agenda.