How can you tell the Republicans have no clue ... much less a plan for anything?
Jon Stewart on the top of his game.
The Daily Show should be required viewing for any third graders who still are unsure how politics works in the 21st century.
Random political and legal musings of a decidedly leftist bent, interspersed with neat underwater pictures (because somebody has to do Friday fishblogging)
Jon Stewart on the top of his game.
"Queen of the Birthers" Orly Taitz is a compleat whackjob, and that got her sanctioned $20,000 by the judge that had to put up with her nonsense and disregard for law, reality, and the Newtonian equations of motion.
Two of her cases in Columbus challenging Obama’s legitimacy to hold office were tossed out by U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land. Then her second client, Capt. Connie Rhodes, wrote a letter to the court in September 2009 claiming that Taitz exceeded her authority as an attorney and that she no longer wanted the California lawyer to represent her.Undeterred, she charges on, and is asking the entire Supreme Court to review her appeal.
Taitz kept pushing the issue of Obama’s legitimacy with Land, who ultimately gave her a warning and then a time limit to explain why he shouldn’t levy a hefty fine against her. In October 2009, when Taitz did reply, though not to the judge’s specific command of why he shouldn’t sanction her, Land then issued $20,000 in sanctions against her.
Taitz appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, and the appeals court upheld Land’s sanctions in May.
She then forwarded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a brief for stay, in which she asked that the sanctions be reversed.
According to the Supreme Court’s website, that application was received July 8 and denied by Thomas on July 15.
On July 20, Taitz posted a motion requesting that she be allowed to verify that it is, in fact, Thomas’ signature on the denial of her application.If she's not satisfied, I guess she'll request the long form of the denial. ;-)