That'll be twenty large, crazy lady

[ebonlock]

Orly Taitz, a.k.a. birther loon patient zero, has received a much deserved boot upside the head from reality via the legal system:

via Lawyers, Guns and Money-
Orly Taitz, the enterprising lawyer who has filed various lawsuits alleging that Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be president of the United States, has achieved the perhaps unique legal distinction of so enraging a federal judge with her lunatic theories that she has been fined $20,000 for making frivolous legal arguments, without opposing counsul first moving for sanctions.

You really must read some of the judge's ruling here, seriously funny shit-

Or perhaps an eccentric citizen has become convinced that the President is an alien from Mars, and the courts should order DNA testing to enforce the Constitution...

Her argument that she should have been given more time to respond before the Court issued its ruling, when she had requested the expedited consideration, is so shockingly devoid of reality that it is difficult to know how to respond.

Really, read the whole thing, it's a laugh riot from start to finish. I like to imagine it being read by Frasier Crane, drolly rolling his eyes to emphasize the above points, then huffing out others like, "Her response to the Court's show cause order is breathtaking in its arrogance and borders on delusional." The absolutely best bit is at the end where it's explained that the original fine was only $10,000 and she behaved so stark fucking bugnuts/stupid/insulting that she got it doubled on herself.

Comments

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

The best part is that this is a reasonably conservative Republican appointee in the middle of Georgia. If you can't sell your wackadoo there, you can't sell it anywhere, and this guy is not in the market for wackadoo.

The footnote about how he has received correspondence from somebody who asserts that the President is in fact not human - and who challenges the judge to a fistfight on the courthouse square - is perhaps the most sublime bit of legal writing so far this century.

[pikabot]

Mmmm...justice.

[perverse-idyll.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that link. You're right, the entire document was worth reading for its dry sarcasm and tone of barely-contained exasperation. How Taitz ever passed the Bar is a mystery, because she seems incapable of logical extrapolation or of recognizing a call for evidence to save her life - or in this case, her income.

And her attempt to ally herself and her batshit obsessions with the brilliant stratagems and anti-segregation crusade of Thurgood Marshall? The hubris just screams for a smackdown.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I do feel sorry for the judge having to put up with this wackiness. It's not easy to keep your decorum while listening to this sh*t. :D
Glad he "threw the book" at her.
Not that it will make any difference. She's already claiming he is in league with Obama, and so she doesn't have to do what he says.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link. I couldn't read the whole thing, because I'm a slow reader and I'm at work, but my favorite bit was about the commander in Afghanistan who dismissed her first plaintiff from service. Smart man. I really enjoyed the way the judge laid out all the crazy in a careful, considerate way that made it easy to understand just how batshit loonball she truly is.