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Candidate Orly? Maybe

By | 06.08.10 | 5:10 pm

California Republicans are publicly wringing their hands this primary day over the possibility that a birther movement leader may actually be their nominee for secretary of state.

Orly Taitz, who emigrated from Israel to the United States in 1987, has made a name for herself in the last More…

Orly Taitz Makes the Ballot in California

By | 03.18.10 | 3:38 pm

Martin Wisckol, who really can’t be disappointed about having such a fun story on his beat, reports that Orly Taitz has qualified for the ballot and will run for the GOP’s nomination for California secretary of state. Her best shot might be knocking the GOP’s preferred candidate, first-time politician More…

Court to Orly Taitz: Pay Your $20,000 Sanction

By | 03.15.10 | 5:33 pm

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms, as expected, the decision of a lower court to fine birther lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000 for her conduct in a lawsuit on behalf of Capt. Connie Rhodes.

“We have fully considered Taitz’s arguments,” the court finds. “We find them unpersuasive and therefore More…

Orly Taitz Challenges the Eligibility of an African-American Politician

By | 03.10.10 | 9:33 am

No, not that one. Another one — Damon Dunn, a mainstream Republican candidate for Secretary of State in California. Dunn stands in the way of Taitz’s vanity campaign for that office. So Taitz has waged a two-tier campaign against him. First, accusing him of being an affirmative action candidate.

‘Where Else Is She Supposed to Go?’

By | 02.23.10 | 11:02 am

Spencer Kornhaber follows up on the story of Orly Taitz seeking … something from the United Nations as she faces various shadowy threats to her crusade to declare President Obama illegitimate. Jonathan Levy, Taitz’s attorney (and fellow graduate of the correspondence William Howard Taft Law School), explains the More…

Orly Taitz Appeals to United Nations for Protection, Investigation

By | 02.22.10 | 4:44 pm

I try not to write about every development in the career of Orly Taitz, but I have to make an exception for her appeal to the United Nations for “urgent action under the mandate for human rights defenders.” Her attorney, Jonathan Levy, writes that Taitz is under “increasing legal attack More…

Local Birther Makes Good

By | 12.29.09 | 9:53 am

The Orange County Register has named Orly Taitz, the birther attorney who briefly became a weird kind of political celebrity, as one of the region’s top Newsmakers of the Year. The paper makes a strong case, pointing out that if Taitz succeeded in handing the presidential election over to More…

Orly Taitz Ally Breaks Away, Says He Fell in Love With Her

By | 12.28.09 | 1:48 pm

The word for this is “strange.” For much of 2009, a disbarred attorney named Charles Lincoln played key roles in Orly Taitz’s multiple “birther” lawsuits against President Obama. Lincoln claimed to be a “law clerk” for Taitz, and he showed up again and again to file documents or assist More…

Orly Taitz: Dismissal of Other Birther Suits Helps Me

By | 11.13.09 | 11:02 am

Orly Taitz, who really should be worrying about the final judgment ordering the U.S. Attorney to collect $20,000 from her, has filed a new sheaf of nonsense arguing that the long-awaited dismissal of Phil Berg’s birther lawsuit proves that her lawsuits really have legs.

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