U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land, from the Middle District of Georgia, Columbus Division, ordered a “bither” attorney Orly Taitz to pay $20,000 in sanctions within next 30 days for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit on behalf of a U.S. Army M.D., Captain Connie Rhodes, Rhodes vs. Mac Donald.
The Rhodes vs. Mac Donald case was filed to stop deployment of Connie Rhodes to Iraq:
“Plaintiff, a Captain in the United States Army, seeks a ?temporary restraining order to prevent the Army from deploying her to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Plaintiff alleges that her deployment orders are unconstitutional and unenforceable because President Barack Obama is not constitutionally eligible to act as Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces.”
The defendants in the now dismissed case included President Obama, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Col. Thomas MacDonald, Fort Benning Garrison commander. Taitz is no longer representing Rhodes.
Land’s 43-page court order was issued yesterday and it states that attorney Taitz “abuses her privilege to practice law.” If Taitz fails to pay the $20,000, collection proceedings will be in order.
When Judge Land dismissed Rhodes vs. Mac Donald, he threatened Taitz with $10,000 sanctions. Taitz proceeded to file a motion asking that Judge Land be recused from the case. She alleged he had ties to the Obama administration through his investments in Microsoft and Comcast and that he met with Attorney General Eric Holder in a local coffee shop about the case.
That's when Land changed his mind about the amount and doubled it.“The original $10,000 sanction,” Land says in his order, isn’t enough to stop Taitz’s misconduct and $20,000 is the minimum needed to deter her.
Land’s order explains in detail why Taitz’s actions are inexcusable:
“When a lawyer files complaints and motions without a reasonable basis for believing that they are supported by existing law or a modification or extension of existing law, that lawyer abuses her
privilege to practice law. When a lawyer uses the courts as a platform for a political agenda disconnected from any legitimate legal cause of action, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law.
When a lawyer personally attacks opposing parties and disrespects the integrity of the judiciary, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer recklessly accuses a judge of violating
the Judicial Code of Conduct with no supporting evidence beyond her dissatisfaction with the judge’s rulings, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law, that lawyer ceases to advance her cause or the ends of justice. “
The order lists another case that Taitz filed in Columbus on behalf of an Army reservist, also claiming that President Obama is not a legitimate Commander in Chief and therefore cannot order military deployment. “Although Ms. Taitz’s antics at that time caused the Court concern, the Court exercised
restraint, optimistically expecting that Plaintiff’s counsel would not return for a repeat performance. The Court’s hopes were quickly dashed when it learned of Ms. Taitz’s subsequent press conference, in
which she reportedly stated that the Court’s ruling made “absolutely no sense,” was “totally illogical” and “defied[d] any sense of decency.”
In addition, Land’s order says that aside from the two cases filed in the Georgia Court, Taitz has been pursuing similar lawsuits across the country, all with the same result. “Ms. Taitz’s performance confirmed to the Court that her focus was not to pursue a legitimate legal cause of action to obtain relief
for her client but was to use the Court to force the President to produce a “birth certificate” satisfactory to her and her followers. Her other purpose appeared to be to use litigation as a means of
drawing attention to her political agenda.”
Comments
You narrow-minded liberals need to understand something very important. "Racist", "racism", and "homophobic" are totally meaningless and worn-out "politically correct" terms employed solely by those of extremely low intellectual capacity, who can neither face facts, nor confront reality. Said terms were designed to stop or prevent any meaningful, honest, and open discussion of the subjects of race and/or homosexuality. No one except irrelevant and half-wiited Obama supporters like Jimmy Carter have ever mentioned race with regard to Obama's eligibility. We're witnessing precisely how low liberals will stoop in an attempt to muddy the waters.
Obama can NEVER legally be considered a “natural born citizen”. Read and comprehend the confession of Obama’s lack of Constitutionally required “natural born citizen” status (which is the ONLY time it can be attained) from “Fight the Smears” and “FactCheck.org” : “When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.” No one can be governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948 at birth, then magically declare themselves a “natural born citizen” of the United States at age twenty one – by law, it is a complete and utter impossibility.
The Muffled Oar says:
"Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with fostering anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic. They are also tasked with fostering anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama." How much lower can George Soros and the Obama administration stoop?!
Ewa Kochanska - It's rather shocking to see how a loser like you tries to make a brilliant woman like Orly Taitz look bad. Obama is desperate because he is well aware he cannot withstand ANY legal scrutiny with regard to his lack of eligibility to hold office. Your tired, very obvious mercenary article simply adds that much more fuel that will drive logical, sensible people to investigate the truth, and in so doing, they will quickly discover that Obama is not a "natural born citizen". Thanks to childish stories just as you have published here, many are turning on Obama and people like you for making personal attacks and playing silly mind games. (You couldn't possibly be Hungarian like George Soros, could you? It's patently obvious you have an anti-American, anti-U.S. Constitution agenda. George Soros will be forced out of America and back to his native Hungary - count on it!) The Obama scandal will soon make the "Watergate conspiracy" look insignificant. GOOD RIDDANCE, OBAMA.
It's scary how many psychotic fools we still have in this country. It's not racist, it's just plain STUPID. As in low IQ. And I thought "truthers" were out there....
@WOW, not stupid, . . . delusional.
there is a difference.
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