Justice Alito refers Orly Taitz’s request to reverse sanctions to U.S. Supreme Court
A request to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito by “birther” attorney Orly Taitz asking that $20,000 in sanctions against her be reversed was referred on Tuesday to the entire court.
U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land imposed the sanctions last year after he warned her and then gave her a time limit to explain why he shouldn’t fine her in the September 2009 case of Capt. Connie Rhodes, who questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency.
Taitz appealed the sanctions to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. That court upheld the sanctions in March, and Taitz sent an application for stay to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on July 8. Thomas denied it a week later.
Taitz then refiled it with Alito on Aug. 4. That request was referred on Tuesday to the entire nine-member court, the Supreme Court’s website states.
“He circulated it to the other eight justices and said, ‘Does anybody else want to do something with this?’” Columbus attorney William Mason said.
Mason previously has said that Taitz should have filed a writ of certiorari instead of the application for stay, arguing that an application for stay is only done in extraordinary circumstances once a case has been appealed properly by filing a writ.
Taitz has said that one doesn’t exclude the other, and on Tuesday declined to say whether she will file a writ with the high court.
On Monday, a lien was filed on all of Taitz’s real property. Taitz said she wouldn’t give the government the satisfaction of taking her property or potentially her law license, adding she would pay the fine.
As of Wednesday, Taitz said on her website that she had raised $1,740 in donations.
Mason theorized that if the entire court dismisses the application for stay, it would be dismissed without consideration if she were to again refile it with another justice.
Columbus attorney Frank Martin said he didn’t consider the referral significant. One reason, he said, is the 90 percent rejection rate the Supreme Court has for hearing cases.
Another reason was that by taking up the case, the court would then have jurisdiction to issue sanctions of its own.
“She may be running the risk of an adverse action of the Supreme Court,” Martin said. “She may be stepping into deeper water right now. I don’t get an automatic take that it’s positive for her.”
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