Yesterday I posted a diary (here) predicting that Birther queen Orly Taitz would face bar sanctions in California for her outrageous and, well, lunatic attack on U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land. In fact, I predicted that she will be disbarred for accusing Judge Land of treason, fraud and corruption. I stand by that prediction.
In the comments it was pointed out (kudos to Timaeus) that anyone could file a complaint with the California State Bar. Overnight, an inactive member of the California bar filed a complaint against Taitz. As reported at TPM, attorney Subodh Chandra points out in his complaint that Taitz violated Section 6068 of the State Bar Act (the same section that I cited in my diary, by the way). I suspect that there will be a flood of such complaints against Taitz.
And since some of you cannot get enough of Orly's unique brand of crazy, more news. As Timaeus, and Pozzo and Rocali pointed out, without an extensive history of ethical violations, Taitz might get a less severe sanction than disbarrment, such as suspension or even only a public reprimand. However, I asked the question, "what happens if she doubles down on the crazy?" Well, she did.
Linked here, is Taitz's emergency motion filed yesterday in Judge Land's court (yes, she actually called the judge actively presiding over her client's case a corrupt traitor - and thanks to stef for the link). I can do no more than quote Taitz in her own words to Judge Land:
Plaintiff avers that there is increasing evidence that the United States District Courts in the 11th Circuit are subject to political pressure, external control, and, mostly likely, subservience to the same illegitimate chain of command which Plaintiff has previously protested in this case, except that the de facto President is not even nominally the Commander-in-Chief of the Article III Judiciary.
The fact that the Court’s 14 page order does not address any actual statements in Plaintiff’s complaint by page or paragraph number, or any page citation to her TRO, suggests to a reasonable and objective mind that the Court either did not read these documents or was summarily instructed by that same illegitimate "chain of command" alleged above not to address at least the three key questions asserted in Case 4:09-cv-00106-CDL Document 15 Filed 09/17/2009 Page 2 of 8 Plaintiff’s Emergency Request for Stay of Deployment Pending Motions for Rehearing Pursuant to Local Rule 7.6 and to Amend and/or Alter Judgment Pursuant to Rule 59(e)3 Plaintiff’s complaint
The Court’s failure to address these three key issues again, standing alone, is suggestive that the executive branch is exercising control over the Court’s decision-making process
This Court has threatened the undersigned counsel with sanctions for advocating that a legally conscious, procedurally sophisticated, and constitutionally aware army officers corps is the best protection against the encroachment of anti-democratic, authoritarian, neo-Fascistic or Palaeo-Communistic dictatorship in this country, without pointing to any specific language, facts, or allegations of fact in the Complaint or TRO as frivolous. Rule 11 demands more of the Court than use of its provisions as a means of suppressing the First Amendment Right to Petition regarding questions of truly historical, in fact epic and epochal, importance in the history of this nation.
But in so ruling, albeit in obiter dicta this Court ignores some of the soundest and most carefully researched and professionally assembled and presented evidence, collated and substantiated by a former agent of England’s Fabled "Scotland Yard". By its contradictory and condescending tone, the Court thereby denigrates its own asserted standard of adherence to evidence as the primary arbiter of legitimacy of any position asserted in litigation.
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff Captain Connie Rhodes asks and requests this Court retract and vacate its sarcastic and biting dismissal of September 16, 2009
Wow. I don't think that there is any more serious indictment of Tatiz's disrepect than her own words. She had the opportunity to reflect on her inflammatory accusations against Judge Land, and yep, just as I thought she would, she doubled down on her crazy. I see disbarrment in her future.
I want to close by saying, as an attorney, that for every Taitz there are hundreds, thousands, of Chandras - ethical, competent attorneys without which our justice system could not function.