Posted on 09/28/2009 10:15:01 AM PDT by vikk
Attorney Orly Taitz, a national figure in the “birther” movement and lawyer for an Army captain who sought to stop her deployment to Iraq on arguments that President Barack Obama can’t legitimately hold office, has filed a motion to withdraw as the captain’s lawyer.
Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes, filed her latest motion Saturday. It cites two court documents as reasons for withdrawing from the case — a Sept. 18 order from U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land threatening $10,000 in sanctions against Taitz and a letter purportedly signed by Connie Rhodes, which asks for Taitz to be removed as her attorney.
“In order to defend herself, the undersigned counsel will have to contest and potentially appeal any sanctions order in her own name alone, separately from the plaintiff, by offering and divulging what would normally constitute inadmissible and privileged attorney-client communications,” Taitz states. “The undersigned attorney will also offer evidence and call witnesses whose testimony will be adverse to her (former) client’s most recently stated position in this case.”
It appears, however, that Taitz didn’t sign her motion. Court records filed Monday state that the motion must be filed again because Taitz didn’t sign it.
It gets my dander up (and that can be painful) that people will come here and obfuscate, even when their questions were answered dozens of times. Anything but trying to seek the truth.
As a matter of law.
Only those who hate America would throw the law out the window in order to win a political battle.
Mine too, but the birthers keep doing it. So I do my best to set the record straight.
There are a few hundred million in this country who are afraid to see the constitution actually followed.
Nope. It is not the law.
Whew. What a relief that you are through Barking your nonsense.
You certainly live up to your screen name of Dumb.
Since you apparently have forgotten, you need to be reminded you pinged me FIRST.
You just told a lie. What you made up is NOT "clearly stated in the constitution". And you complain about obfuscation. Shame.
You conveniently left out another possibility. The true one.
Since I do believe in upholding the constitution, I'm not willing to sit quietly while the birthers make up lies and distort the meanings of words in that document, because of the result of an election. I defend that document. The birthers are attacking it.
Yep, it most certainly matters. And indeed, it isn’t the law that allows someone who is born a dual citizen (at best) be considered NBC. It’s TBD.
It’s not political, it is legal. Ask Sam Reed why he tossed Roger Calero off the ballot in Washington State
16-242. Qualifications for ballot; nomination paper
A. A person seeking nomination as a candidate for the office of president of the United States shall sign and cause to be filed with the secretary of state a nomination paper that contains the following information:
1. The name, residence address and mailing address of the candidate.
2. The name of the recognized political party from which the person seeks nomination.
3. The name and address of the chairman of the candidate's state committee.
4. The exact manner for printing the candidate's name on the presidential preference ballot pursuant to section 16-311.
B. The nomination paper shall be filed not less than fifty days nor more than seventy days before the presidential preference election and not later than 5:00 p.m. on the last day for filing.
C. Section 16-351 does not apply to a nomination paper filed pursuant to this section.
D. Within seventy-two hours after the close of filing the secretary of state shall CERTIFY to the officer in charge of elections the names of the candidates WHO ARE QUALIFIED for the presidential preference election ballot.
Their claim, not mine.
A person qualified is someone who meets criteria A1 through A4 and B. Where in there is a requirement to produce a birth certificate?
Sorry, there's nothing TBD about it. It's a birther myth and nothing more. Another country's citizenship laws have no bearing on which American's are or are not natural born citizens. This idea is just another example of birthers trying to distort the law and the constitution to get their way.
Which has nothing to do with the point I said was political. You have to follow the conversation.
But none of them were from recognized political parties, were they?
Ask Elridge Cleaver and Roger Calero
How about a quote?
The courts are used (haha) to interpret the law. That check and balance system. The constitution is the law of the land. Since the states are obligated to protect their citizens..it seems fitting to utilize state courts to make sure the candidates are legitimate..if all other normal routes fail to prove they are. In this day and age (after 9-11), and with the corruption surrounding us, (acorn etc), it’s time to close any and all loopholes. We have to demand the loopholes be closed.
Yes it does. Calero was deemed unqualified and had to have a substitute on the ballot. He was unqualified because he was born in Nicaragua.
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