Orly Taitz Flirts with Professional Ethics Standards

Guest poster Publius here: I don’t like to talk about the “Birthers.” They don’t deserve serious treatment, except the occasional concise or snarky explanation of why they’re wrong, both of which are done better by Patrick here. Besides, debating them extensively just makes me feel like I’m lowering myself to their level. So please forgive this momentary diversion, a last glance at one particularly reprehensible villain.

"Dr.” Orly Taitz, a woman holding herself out as a lawyer, has managed to leverage the far-right’s distaste for President Obama into a number of conspiracy theories, a few scurrilous lawsuits, and fifteen minutes of fame, billing herself as the defender of obscure constitutional phraseology and - apparently - the republic itself. But “Dr.” Taitz may be the only “ineligible” player in her little farce.

(read the full post at Submitted to a Candid World...)

Comments

[hablo]

I'm at work, so I don't think it's beneficial for me to click on Orly's site to cite this. However, when Orly had her original site, she posted a letter from and gloated about the fact that Robert's had granted her permission to appear in front of the Supreme Court.

On this issue, it seems Orly actually did the right thing.

[GeorgetownJD]

Admission to the bar of the United States Supreme Court requires nothing more than admission to practice in the highest court of one state (in Orly's case, California) for a minimum period, and payment of a fee. It entitles the attorney to file appeals with SCOTUS, sit in a designated section of the great chamber to hear oral arguments when the court is in session. It does not entitle the attorney to remain clueless about practice and procedure before the court, to abuse the staff, to counsel people to contact the justices in an effort to sway them on a matter under consideration or future consideration by the court, or to libel the clerks.

[Davey]

What Orly needs is a vacation from her own insanity. Preferably with a hot tub and a few bottles of wine. Rub-a-dub dat dirty lawyer in da mufukn hot tub!

“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”
- Nora Ephron

[StrangeAppar8us]

@GeorgetownJD -- So I guess ANY bullshit technicality counts if it stands between your Precious Obamessiah and his well-deserved take-down? You weary me with your endless citations of legal arcanum, procedural minutiae and the esoteric frou-frou of "bar examinations," "case-law" and "precedent."

Dr. Orly needs no "admission to the bar" when Justice itself is her chaperone, and the Torch of Freedom precedes her through every portal.

Besides, you should see these crowns. Terrific work, basement prices...and I slept like a baby through the whole thing.

[hablo]

"It does not entitle the attorney to remain clueless about practice and procedure before the court, to abuse the staff, to counsel people to contact the justices in an effort to sway them on a matter under consideration or future consideration by the court, or to libel the clerks."
I absolutely agree, and want to add that it does not entitle her to be the total asshat she's been since day one. However, does the fact that she was granted admission give her the ability to be an attorney for that particular case, or is the OP correct in that she can't even be in the courtroom?

[notheydidn't]

StrangeAppar8us,

"Dr. Orly needs no "admission to the bar" when Justice itself is her chaperone, and the Torch of Freedom precedes her through every portal."

ROTFLMAO!!!

[GeorgetownJD]

@StrangeAppar8us -- I heard that the PayPal account was hacked. Hope you checked your wallet when you emerged from the nitrous fog.

[bdaman]

http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/orly-taitz-esq-accepted-to-scotus.html

[StrangeAppar8us]

Wow. Orly's Motion to Reconsider Bowen is a masterpiece of loony self-sabotage. It would help if she could spell -- or at least employed the correct legal terms, instead of phonetic approximations. But accusing the SC of an illegal ex parte meeting with Obama -- and then buttressing her charges against Bickel using her OWN illegal ex parte exchange with Justice Scalia -- is the sort of ironic, koan-like paradox that drove Ancient Man to invent hashish.

[Hektor]

@Strange... Text comments are incapable of expressing the bewilderment I experienced while reading Orly's ummm "motion."

Due to the fact that there is evidence of sabotage within the Supreme Court, and there is no guarantee this petition will be forwarded to the Justices through regular channels; this petition will be hand delivered to Chief Justice Roberts at his appearance with students at the University of Moscow, Idaho, on Friday, March 13th, 4 PM. In case something happens to the under signed counsel and the counsel is prevented from hand delivering this motion, it is being posted on the blog DefendOurFreedoms.US; it is being mailed to each and every Justice by certified mail with restricted signature delivery, to be personally signed by the Justices; and it is being forwarded as a press release to Congress, Senate, State Houses of Representatives, State Senates, Governors of all 50 States, FBI, Secret Service, Department of Justice, Department of Defense, Homeland security, Attorney Generals of all 50 states and 26,000 outlets of US and World media in order to bring awareness of the above to the World Community.

Not that I am even something resembling a lawyer, nor do I have any idea of how to petition SCOTUS, but it strikes me as a tad unbalanced include "oh noez I may be assassinated by the menacing hoards of obots" in a formal legal motion. Also, if the clarity and flow of said petition is improved by appending "I am not a nut" at the end of every paragraph, ur doin it rong.

[StrangeAppar8us]

@Hektor -- Seriously, Orly's only missed opportunity here was that she didn't assemble the entire motion from mismatched, cut-out magazine type, glue it all together on a scroll of dried cadaver-skin, sign her name in lipstick, and hand-deliver it to Chief Justice Roberts barefoot and wearing a widow's shroud.

I mean, if you're going to do "crazy," don't do it half-way.

[Mary Brown]

Can the lawyers answer something for me. I am a preschool teacher with an Early Education degree. If I had dared to submit a paper with grammatical errors and phonetic spellings my professors would have given me a well deserved F. How did she ever get through law school or pass the bar? I am assuming that a candidate writes during the exam. How did she pass? How did she manage to submit work at any level that was acceptable? Can you check her work or get copies of her papers?

[richCares]

I knew a women that failed the bar twice, she hired a bar passer to take the test for her, cost $2800.00 and she passed. that was in the 60's. Maybe Orly did the same.

[StrangeAppar8us]

Personally, I would have sprung the trap-door beneath Orly's feet at "Attorney Generals."

[GeorgetownJD]

Mary Brown,

A visit to the website for William Howard Taft University's law program suggests the answer to your question: MULTIPLE CHOICE TESTS!!!

We know she graduated in the top three of her class. Of course, she also graduated in the bottom three.

[Nicolle]

Here's a brief article about Chief Justice Roberts' lecture in Idaho, including mention of Orly's attempt to "serve" him her whatever it is.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008857072_apidrobertsidaho1stldwritethru.html

[Hektor]

@Strange

Well, I can't say that you're wrong. Although judging from the article Nicolle points to, she's already halfway there. How soon before she tries to serve Obama indictment papers by her own Grand Jury Star Chamber? Quick question to anyone, I remain woefully ignorant on a lot of things, but are there legal consequences to harassing Justices of the Supreme Court in this fashion?

[StrangeAppar8us]

@Nicolle -- Thanks for the tip. Looks like Orly didn't get "Perry Mason" moment she was hoping for.

"At one point during the audience question period, Orly Taitz, a woman from Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., said she had documents proving that President Obama was not born in the United States and thus could not be president. While audience members laughed, she said she had half a million signatures of people demanding the Supreme Court hear the matter.

"Roberts cut her off by saying that if she had documents with her, she should give them to security officers. He also said he could not discuss the issue."

I half-expected the story to continue: "Ignoring Robert's admonition, Taitz rushed the dais waving a 'Star Wars'-themed plastic school-folder over her head and shouting 'For Sparta! For Justice! For happy, healthy teeth! Death to Smoot-Hawley!' Within feet of Roberts and full view of the terrified audience, Secret Service agents quickly tased the woman into submission, and stuffed her into a large steamer trunk. 'Holy Christ, was that Amy Winehouse?' quipped Roberts, in an effort to calm the crowd."

[David]

Republican wants WH candidates to prove citizenship

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/13/gop-congressman-wants-presidential-candidates-to-prove-citizenship/

[David]

Here is the actual bill he is trying to pass:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/03/13/birtherbill0313.hr.pdf

[StrangeAppar8us]

@David -- Obviously, Rep. Posey doesn't have enough hobbies. Like Orly and Phil.

[Mrs. Polly]

"'For Sparta! For Justice! For happy, healthy teeth!"

I just wanted to see how it looks all by itself. It looks wonderful.

[MaryRC]

"While audience members laughed", huh? In Orly's version of the world they didn't laugh - they gasped and listened attentively according to her account. Of course there have been times that I've laughed so hard that I've had to gasp for breath, so maybe her disconnect with reality isn't total yet.

[Hektor]

@Nicolle Orly's rendition of the whole event is a tad different.

Roughly 5,000 people in all the campuses had an opportunity to hear what I had to say, it is in video archives and now everybody knows the truth and knows that leftist media thugs such as Seattle Washington Observer shamelessly twist the truth to fit their Pro Obama blind idiot agenda.

Please, please let there be video of this as she claims. No matter how I try and picture a deranged dentist haranguing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court about a conspiracy which his very clerks are participating in to subvert the constitution, I just don't think I'll get it just right.

I missed time with my children, time that will never come back because a am criss (sic) crossing this country talking to Justices of the Supreme court, Representatives, Senators, FBI agents, Attorney Generals, US attorneys, telling all of them, what is wrong with you? Did some evil magician put a spell on the men in this country and they stopped being men? Why are you afraid to speak up, to stand up for you constitution? Why are you afraid to tell this arrogant jerk from Africa and Indonesia- You need to go home, you cannot be a president and commander in chief because you are not a Natural born Citizen.

At this rate she'll be painting herself in blood and biting the heads of chickens in no time.

[StrangeAppar8us]

@Hektor -- First, you have to remember that not only is Orly bug-eyed crazy, but she delivers her lines with a scary Russian accent. Pure "Get Smart"-style comedy gold.

Second, you can take it to the bank that -- eventually -- the SC Justices are going to get fed up with her leaping out of doorways and dropping from chandeliers to announce, "So we meet again, eh, Chief Justice Roberts? You see, you are not the only one who survived the roiling waters of the Reichenbach Falls!"

In fact, I'm pretty certain she's already graduated from "concerned citizen" to "stalker."