I was reading in this article about the "Twitter" Judge Robertson who warning of sanctions against Hemenway, ordered him to respond immediately. ANd he did.
Hemenway wrote, "These are not frivolous matters, as the learned Judge Robertson has suggested. Possible illegal orders are a matter of great concern to officers in the armed forces........
He also asserted that if he was penalized he would have the right to a discovery hearing to see documentation of the judge's statements not supported by any evidence introduced into the case that Obama was properly "vetted."
"If the court persists in pressing Rule 11 procedures against Hemenway, then Hemenway should be allowed all of the discovery pertinent to the procedures as court precedents have permitted in the past," he wrote to the judge.
Do you think Orly could get discovery by way of the same Hemenway arguement?
'Twittered' eligibility case lawyer faces threat of sanctions
I doubt it.
This is hard to explain, because it depends on my experience trying federal cases and that experience is difficult to transmit to someone who hasn't practiced in federal court.
Dr. Taitz is a really bad lawyer. Like, as bad as crazy people who sue Satan (yeah, somebody tried to do that). I read her pleadings and I laugh. She is in way over her head in a technical area of the law in which she has no experience, practicing in a court system in which she has no experience. You could probably do a better job than she is doing.
Not only are her paper filings really, really bad, her oral arguments are also dreadful. I have only seen informal transcripts, but they seem to be a lot like her television interviews. That is, they sound like the rantings of someone who has all her worldly belongings in a shopping cart down by the river.
I think she has burned her bridges by forgetting who her target audience is. It is not the people who read her blog. Her target audience is federal district court judges who she must convince of her arguments. Her loud accusations of "usurper!" and "fraud!" may get her a lot of strokes on her blog, but they go nowhere in front of a district court judge who already has to spend too much time on crazy cases.
Back before the electronic case filing system was created, I liked to go to the clerk's desk myself and file my own cases. While the clerk processed the filing, I would page through the binder they kept at the desk of recent filings. It was fun to see the crazy cases filed by prisoners who had nothing better to do with their time. There were a lot of them.
Anyway, I think Dr. Taitz has reached the point where she is viewed as nothing more than some nut, some prisoner complaining that the warden won't let him have his inappropriate content. Because of this, I think she is going to get knocked with a sanction and not get any leave to do discovery.
Seriously--follow Mr. Kreep's work on this issue. He's boring and doesn't post an update every thirty seconds, but he is at least willing to do the boring work to get to the prize.
