COLUMBUS, Ga. — 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 this week to the entire court.
U.S. District Judge Clay Land imposed the sanctions last year in the September case of Capt. Connie Rhodes, who sought to stop her deployment to Iraq on arguments that Barack Obama was not legitimately holding the office of the presidency. Land had warned Taitz not to file any more “frivolous” lawsuits.
Taitz appealed the sanctions to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That court upheld the sanctions in March, and Taitz sent an application for a stay to 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 Tuesday to the entire nine-member 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.
