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Angry Judge Puts Birther Queen On Notice: This Is Not Alice in Wonderland
Justin Elliott | September 16, 2009, 1:57PM
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U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land delivered a stinging rebuke to unofficial Birther leader Orly Taitz in a tour de force order throwing out yet another of Taitz's lawsuits today. And he warned Taitz that she could face sanctions if she submits any "similarly frivolous" (read: birther-motivated) filing.
Taitz has filed multiple "birther soldier" lawsuits, in which a member of the military claims he or she does not have to follow deployment orders because President Obama is illegitimate.
The 14-page order, which you can read in full here, throws out a complaint by Army Capt. Connie Rhodes, who cited "conscientious objections" to serving under the "de facto president," Barack Obama. It was first reported by the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia.
Land, of the Middle District of Georgia, begins his order by outlining Taitz's MO, noting that "counsel has managed to fuel this 'birther movement' with her litigation and press conferences, she does not appear to have prevailed on a single claim."
Then he turns to tearing apart the complaint of the moment:
First, Plaintiff's challenge to her deployment order is frivolous. She has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as President of the United States. Instead, she uses her Complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the President is "an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter."
The judge lambastes Taitz's logic, writing: "Unlike in Alice in Wonderland, simply saying something is so does not make it so."
He describes the complaint's assertion that Obama has the burden to prove his "natural born" status as "a remarkable shifting of the traditional legal burden of proof." And he says even a middle schooler could see the irony here:
Thus, Plaintiff's counsel, who champions herself as a defender of liberty and freedom, seeks to use the power of the judiciary to compel a citizen, albeit the President of the United States, to "prove his innocence" to "charges" that are based upon conjecture and speculation. Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our Country was founded in order to purportedly "protect and preserve" those very principles.
Taitz didn't immediately respond to a call seeking comment about the judge's threat of sanctions.
Late Update: Taitz tells TPM: Judge Land should be tried for treason.
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tonigo
September 16, 2009 4:13 PM
Orly?
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stavrogin2
September 16, 2009 4:19 PM
Ya rly!
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grimshizzle
September 16, 2009 4:25 PM
Okay, I'll admit she's a nutcase. But her performance of "Paparazzi" at the VMAs was really stunning.
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here
September 16, 2009 4:25 PM
I'm going to sue TPM for assaulting me with that close-up picture of Taitz. At least post a warning on the link.
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Hussein Stemper
September 16, 2009 4:39 PM in reply to here
Word. Forget health care reform, may be time for eyelash reform.
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RedMolly
September 16, 2009 5:40 PM in reply to Hussein Stemper
Have she and Tammy Faye Baker ever been seen in the same room at the same time?
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JNagarya
September 16, 2009 6:12 PM in reply to RedMolly
I think Tammy Faye is totally dead.
Oily Tits is only dead from the shoulders up.
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midnight rambler
September 17, 2009 1:16 PM in reply to JNagarya
Are there really any records of Orly from before Tammy Faye's supposed death? I think she just had liposuction and reinvented herself. I want to see the death certificate!
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RedMolly
September 17, 2009 1:40 PM in reply to midnight rambler
Exactly!
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JNagarya
September 18, 2009 3:10 PM in reply to midnight rambler
I want to see Oily Tits' birth certificate first.
The Long Form.
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DICKERSON3870
September 16, 2009 4:28 PM
RE: "the judge's threat of sanctions"
MY COMMENT: Pay him no mind. Judge Land is obviously part of the conspiracy. You go gurl! Keep defending liberty and freedom as only a Moldavian, Israeli American can!
P.S. Tell Bibi to just ignore Barry's call for a freeze on building in Israel's West Bank (Judea & Samaria) colonies!
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JNagarya
September 16, 2009 6:13 PM in reply to DICKERSON3870
She should require him to recuse himself: it's obvious his roof leaks, and he hates dentists.
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lawyerbriefs
September 16, 2009 4:30 PM
Good for Judge Clay Land, who happens to serve in the Middle District of Georgia--hardly a locale known for radical, Left Wing thinking--and was appointed by President George W. Bush. Frivolous is frivolous, no matter where you come from or who "hired" you!
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ScottW
September 16, 2009 4:33 PM
I'm going to sue TPM for assaulting me with that close-up picture of Taitz. At least post a warning on the link.
Count me, I feel dirty.
Looks like a gender reassignment surgery surgery gone very bad.
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drubs
September 16, 2009 4:42 PM in reply to ScottW
I think she's kinda hot in a crazy chick you wouldn't remember once sober kinda way.
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lousgirl84
September 16, 2009 4:59 PM in reply to drubs
What a pigof a statement to make.
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JNagarya
September 16, 2009 6:11 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Oh, come on: admit that you admire Oily Tits for her lunatic spelling of "chutzpah".
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ohyeathatsright
September 16, 2009 11:47 PM in reply to lousgirl84
I finally understand what the meme "putting lipstick on a pig" is all about.
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chard
September 16, 2009 10:14 PM in reply to drubs
Um..I've been looking at the photo and am unconvinced she's a "she."
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The Decider
September 16, 2009 4:38 PM
You guys should have listened to me when I warned you about the need to legislate against frivolous lawsuits!
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CranialRectalLoopback
September 16, 2009 4:44 PM in reply to The Decider
There is no need to legislate against frivolous lawsuits. As you can tell, THEY GET THROWN OUT!
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 16, 2009 4:49 PM
Clearly when Obama was time travelling back to place those birth announcements in the Honululu papers, he also made a stop in 2001 where he convinced George W. Bush to appoint Land to this seat.
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JNagarya
September 16, 2009 6:16 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Well, President Obama is brilliant, so I wouldn't expect him to overlook such an important detail.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 16, 2009 8:25 PM in reply to JNagarya
How can you say that when it's well known he only sounds brilliant because his mysterious handlers make him sound that way on the teleprompter?
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artwrite
September 16, 2009 4:49 PM
Orly is a Moldovian national, now living in Orange County, California (sometimes known as the Talladega of the West). No word yet on whether she has a birth certificate or not, but her law degree is of the mail order variety which may explain the legal acumen that the judge cited.
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eve cairo
September 16, 2009 4:52 PM
How did she wind up in this court? Is she just going to go around the country filing these things? And how come soldier boy is not in the hoosgow at this point?
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Lestatdelc
September 16, 2009 7:43 PM in reply to eve cairo
Yes that is exactly what the 'lovely' Ms. Taitz does. And the soldier in question is a she, not a he.
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Unmitigated Audacity
September 16, 2009 4:58 PM
Oily, I feel Oily after seeing that hideous photo.
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jeffgee
September 16, 2009 5:09 PM
I wonder if she did her high-pitched monologue for the judge like the one she does for TV. That alone would qualify for contempt of court.
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Joe Pettit
September 16, 2009 5:33 PM
Mwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa. This is all going exzzzactly as planned. Why, she is so crazy looking that no one will suspect for even a moment that the judge really IS a puppet. Perrrrfect.
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GTFOOH
September 16, 2009 5:45 PM
Poorly, Orly, puddin pie, crossed a Judge who made her cry.
Now when spreding her erroneous myth, in Justice Halls, she'll plead the fifth!
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PanGloss
September 16, 2009 6:15 PM
Gads, I'm disappointed. What will we in the real world - that's is us human beings outside the territorial boundaries of the USA, military bases et al - do for our lite entertainment? Hey we also have grown accustom to your increasing fits of madness which have provided us with data on the effects of being a US citizen so we can warn any sane clever people outside here away from thinking of becoming one of you. So we are disappointed the judge may have capped this particular deranged citizen she was providing very useful data.
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PanGloss
September 16, 2009 6:16 PM
Gads, I'm disappointed. What will we in the real world - that's is us human beings outside the territorial boundaries of the USA, military bases et al - do for our lite entertainment? Hey we also have grown accustom to your increasing fits of madness which have provided us with data on the effects of being a US citizen so we can warn any sane clever people outside here away from thinking of becoming one of you. So we are disappointed the judge may have capped this particular deranged citizen she was providing very useful data.
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Peter Principle
September 16, 2009 6:40 PM
Back when I was a kid living in Southern California, there was this crazy woman who used to hand out leaflets against fluoridated water every Saturday down at my local public library. She looked just like Orly Taitz -- same garish, inappropriate makeup, same wild eyes, same pinched, anorexic face. A stone lunatic.
I'd swear it was Orly, but I think she was living in the USSR at the time. (One of the few good things I can say about Soviet communism: It kept Orly Taitz far away from the USA).
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Ward Report
September 16, 2009 7:53 PM
The Judge should have sanctioned her already. She's an officer of the court and not just some wackjob pro se. She's a lawyer wackjob and she knows better.
The fact that this is not her first such suit is reason enough to sanction her and she should be facing professional discipline as well for filling such patently frivolous suits.
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rbe1
September 17, 2009 5:31 AM
This is really a guy, right ?
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Frankly_my_dear
September 17, 2009 7:57 AM
Orly (is she really named after an airport?) Taitz (is her last name really pronounced "Tights"?) says she isn't crazy, but can she prove it? I mean does she have a long-form certificate signed by a doctor and with a raised seal that says she isn't crazy? If she doesn't, it's just her word against the empirical evidence.
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CityGuy
September 17, 2009 10:25 AM
"Crazy" IS a state isn't it? No I guess it's just her state of mind.
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pbg
September 17, 2009 10:53 AM
She IS Sasha Baron Cohen!
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BluGrass
September 17, 2009 11:35 AM
If Orly wants to compare herself to Nelson Mandela, then she needs to submit to twenty-seven years of hard labor, most of it on Robben Island. This seems like a plan to me.
See you in 2036, Orly. Then we'll talk.
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riceroni
November 21, 2009 10:50 PM
Oily Tits is one crazy mofo! Where do these weirdos come from?
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