The author of this article had his law license suspended:
From the VA Lawyers Weekly, 4-3-14:
Another Virginia lawyer accepted a nine-month suspension last month after he acknowledged failing to help a client as promised and failing to respond to a bar complaint.
Douglas E. Mataconis agreed to represent a Prince William County couple who hoped to block construction on a nearby residential development, according to an agreed statement of facts.
Despite exchanging information on how to proceed for more than a year, Mataconis never completed a promised letter of protest to the county board, nor did he provide any substantive assistance with the couple’s effort, according to the statement.
Moreover, Mataconis acknowledged he never responded when the VSB sent notice of the clients’ bar complaint.
After receiving the stipulation of evidence and hearing from both the bar and Mataconis, the Disciplinary Board panel proposed the nine-month suspension, according to assistant bar counsel Prescott L. Prince. Mataconis agreed to the suspension.
Mataconis is a prolific contributor on the blog “Outside the Beltway,” described as an online journal of politics and foreign affairs analysis.
The has a history of being lunatic LIBS intent on undermining the Rule of Law under the Constitution.