"Birther Queen" Orly Taitz fined $20,000 for "Frivolous Litigation"
By Ben ReiningaAugust 16th, 2010, 3:28 pmComments (9)The leader of the Birther movement, claiming Barack Obama is not an American citizen, will have to pay a $20,000 fine. The fine was levied by a federal judge in October of 2009, and today, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito blocked her second request to dismiss the fine. She will be charged twenty grand for "Frivolous Litigation."
Thank god. There is probably no better definition of "frivolous" than repeatedly trying to disprove the citizenship of the President, especially in a country whose court system is so clogged it takes three months to process a goddamn parking ticket.
The bad news, however, is that fining a nutcase this big will only do one thing: make a slightly less wealthy nutcase. When you are leading a movement so conservative that Samuel Life-Liberty-and-the-right-to-bear-machine-guns Alito had to tell you to knock it off, you are officially too far from reality to be reasoned with.
Also, for someone whose attacks on the president are mostly based on his foreign-sounding name, may I just say, you've got a pretty odd-sounding moniker yourself, Orly.
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In addition to a less wealthy nutcase, she'll also be a more famous one. I cannot help but picture the owl face with an O, RLY? typed across it every time I see her name in print.
i misread it too, but i thought it was O, RLY, TAINTS?
Orly Taitz is an immigrant from Moldova. She was born there to a Jewish family when it was a part of the USSR, then immigrated to Israel when she was 21. I always thought it was kind of funny that the leader of the movement depicting the President as ineligible of Presidency is herself an immigrant.
It says in the linked article that "Taitz sued in Georgia federal court on behalf of Army
Capt. Connie Rhodes. Rhodes sought to avoid deployment to Iraq by claiming Obama wasn't born in the United States." Why couldn't Capt. Rhodes file her own lawsuit? If being in the military prevented her from doing so, why didn't she resign her comission? Or is there more to it than that? (there usually is)
Lane's prostitute looked kind of like Peggy. That weirded me out.
She was named after a French airport?
@V53: She is Capt. Rohodes' lawyer. Federal rules of procedure require a lawyer filing any lawsuit to certify that the case has merit and it is not presented for an improper purpose. A lawyer is supposed to know better than to bring a case this baseless, even if her client is insisting on it which is why a lawyer can be personally fined for bringing such a case, which is what appears to have happened here.
In awe of that asnewr! Really cool!
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