Posted on 08/16/2010 9:34:44 AM PDT by LonelyCon
The Supreme Court has upheld a $20,000 fine against a leader of the movement challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship.
The high court on Monday refused to block a federal judge's October 2009 ruling that required California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz to pay the $20,000 fine for filing a "frivolous" litigation. The judge said Taitz attempted to misuse the federal courts to push a political agenda.
Taitz sued in Georgia federal court on behalf of Army Capt. Connie Rhodes. Rhodes sought to avoid deployment to Iraq by claiming Obama wasn't born in the United States.
Justice Samuel Alito on Monday rejected Taitz's second request to block the sanctions. Justice Clarence Thomas had rejected the request earlier.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
This whole issue is driven by pure emotion.
Forget the fact that courts of law have such considerations to deal with as: jurisdiction, standing and procedure.
You can apparently just make up the answers to these issues as you go along as long as your intentions (i.e. helping two reservists trying to avoid being deployed to a forward area get a free pass) are good.
Forget about the fact that one of your clients has accused you of forging her signature and asked for you to be removed as her attorney, and forget about the fact that you asked the court to allow you to break your attorney-client privilege so you could dish dirt on one of your clients in violation of pretty much every ethical standard.
Reading this "attorney's" pleadings was far worse than root canal. If Team Obama doesn't pay her fine, I'll chalk it up to their poor sportsmanship. She did them one hell of a lot more good than any of their high-priced lawyers ever did!
This should tell you something.
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My thoughts exactly. It is truly a fascinating and unprecedented issue that deserves rational and sober litigation free of flim-flam types. Unfortunately, Taitz IMO is just that, a not-ready-for-prime-time type who has given the birther movement a bum rap.
Clay Land is actually a conservative Republican from Shreveport who was appointed to the Bench by W.
A legitimate attorney could probably not have asked for a more conservative, original-intent-minded federal judge.
More proof that the GOP is really nothing more than “Democrats with jobs”
Probably will turn down all the Prop 8 overturning challenges....and rule against SB 1070...just watch
I have no faith in the Supremicist Court
Two weeks ago, Dr. Taitz filed a motion to reconsider the sanction, When a review of the so-called “Denial” was done, it found that while the “Denial” was allegedly issued, there were no signatures of any Justices nor was there any evidence of the alleged order being logged into the Supreme Court records. This initial motion was addressed to Justice Alito. Then, consistent with Dr. Taitz right to re-file the motion to another Justice she filed it with Justice Thomas. Now, according to her blog, and I show the link here indicating there are still no official signatures from either Justice Alito, or Justice Thomas:
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=13078
The point here being, once again the “clerks” of the Supreme Court are in full charge of said court and the Justices are mere spectators and onlookers. I suggest the people who log onto this blog to disparage the work of Dr. Taitz without knowing all the FACTS, please rethink their line of reasoning.
Simply put, while there is some kind of evidence the two Justices involved supposedly rejected Dr. Taitz’ motion, there is no evidence either of them have even read the papers, let alone passed some kind of ruling.
No, I am suggesting that Taitz actions in court warrant the sanctions directed at her. Wouldn’t matter if the object of the lawsuit was about, say, a local zoning law as opposed to this subject, she still was out of order from what I have read.
It does not explain why other attorneys have been fined by the courts for presenting cases regarding Obama’s Birth issue. Taitz may not be a top flight lawyer...but more experienced lawyers dealing with the Birther issues have suffered the same fate as Taitz
You either a Birther or an Obama supporter
It looks very much like Alito and Thomas are saying that they won’t touch the “birther’ issue with a ten foot pole.
Jeeze. Alito and Thomas know only congress can remove a sitting president sworn in by the chief justice. This idea that they could go to court and sue under the claim that Obama was never ever president is silly, especially with his two new SCOTUS justices now on the court.
What now, sue the court claiming that Kagan and Sotomayor are not really justices?
Imagination-land!
And birthers wonder why they have a hard time appealing to a larger segment of the populace.
I'm sympathetic to the core birther issues.
But when you try to equate me to an Obama supporter, you can go suck eggs.
Biden couldn't be worse than Obama.
I doubt Biden hates America or will bend over backwards for the Muslims.
Biden cares about himself and his own legacy. He'll pay attention to the polls and back off of controversial stuff.
Biden tends to say what's on his mind without thinking. That transparency could serve us well.
But, what can I say? I am hopelessly in love with the woman, as apparently are all the other 75+ conservative trailer-park pundits in America! I mean the woman is a really good-looking in a kind of old-fashioned curvy sorta way!
However, her husband, who has had the horns put on him by one of Orly's "investigators," or something, has some fairly suspicious foreign connections. Are we sure George Soros isn't secretly behind this soap opera? Perhaps Orly doesn't even know .... I hope.
Sometimes things are just as they are. Incompentent in the case of Taitz....
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/16/scotus.birther.lawsuit.fine/#fbid=Qh2uQO1MYGv&wom=false
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Taitz had represented Capt. Connie Rhodes, an Army physician from Columbus, Georgia, who protested her pending deployment to Iraq. Taitz had argued in court the deployment was illegal because Obama had no authority to act as commander in chief since he was unconstitutionally serving as president.
A motion for a restraining order was ultimately rejected by Judge Clay Land of the Middle District of Georgia. According to court records, Taitz then filed for a rehearing, and publicly labeled the ruling an “act of treason.”
Rhodes later said that second motion, which also was rejected, was filed without her consent. Land then ruled the lawyer had filed “frivolous” litigation, had abused the civil judicial process, and fined her.
“Counsel’s pattern of conduct conclusively establishes she did not mistakenly violate a provision of law,” wrote Land. “She knowingly violated Rule 11 [of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]. Her response to the court’s show cause order is breathtaking in its arrogance and borders on delusional.”
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The SCOTUS, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, etc. are fully aware of 0’bs true status, there are no secrets from these people. Therefore, we can reliably conclude they are all happily, willing, supporting TREASON in regards to 0’b.
The actions of patriots in WOrcester MA, ,were out of line too in 1774. They didn’t like what the courts were doing to reorganize land into petty kingdoms for George III’s favorite nobles. They shut the courts down , and appointed their own judicial administrators until the Massachussets Congress convened. They were way out of Line. I laud Orly for being out of line as do millions of Americans.Who gives an eff about being out of line, its called for.
Besides, 60 per cent of the US already believes Obama was not born in the USA,and so Orly has already won , all this does is show how disempowered SCOTUS is in protecting America against a nationalist socialist movement.They do not think the constitution can do that, and so its up to the people themselves.
Soon the percentage mentioned above will reach 70%. And we will be rid of them at the polls, unless they figure out a way to traduce the election process.Then we will fight.
I doubt Biden knows exactly what country he is in. If you're from Tennessee, you cannot possibly imagine how small the Delaware gene pool is.
The only fair thing to do for the rest of America is to give Rhode Island and Delaware combined, 1 Senator for both "states," to be appointed by Jim Robinson. Seriously, there isn't enough room in Rhode Island to back and turn an 18-wheeler, so why two Senators? Delaware has more resident chickens than citizens .... and they may be smarter. Or at least smarter than Biden, which ain't saying much for the poultry.
But it won’t.
Sorry, but comparing the actions of the Revolutionary Patriots to Orly getting spanked for blatant violations of procedure outlined in post 35 is pretty absurd.
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