Dentist-attorney Orly Taitz, one of the leaders of the “birther” movement that insists President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore cannot be president of the United States, has written two Assistant U.S. Attorneys to request that a dismissed civil case in California be transferred to court in D.C.
According to Taitz’s Web site, she e-mailed two Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Roger West and David DeJute, on Wednesday to schedule “a short phone meet and confer conference” request that her case be transferred to D.C.
Taitz filed the motion on Thursday, which is scheduled to be heard on Jan. 25 in court in the Central District of California.
Back in September, the two Justice Department lawyers, representing Obama, argued that the case should be dismissed because it was inherently flawed. The case was thrown out, and now Taitz is arguing that the merits of the case weren’t heard because the suit was thrown out simply because it did not take place in the right venue.
In a separate Georgia case Taitz filed, the judge ordered the U.S. Attorney to attempt to collect $20,000 from Taitz because she filed frivolous lawsuits. That order came after U.S. District Judge Clay Land belittled Taitz in a widely circulated order that accused Taitz of not understanding legal principles grasped by “any middle school civics student.” He added: “Unlike in Alice in Wonderland, simply saying something is so does not make it so.”
Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman for the Middle District of Georgia told TPMmuckraker last week that his office is waiting on Taitz’s appeal before it attempts to collect the fine. TPM has a rundown of Taitz’s suits and media appearances in 2009 in this post.
Via Taitz’s Web site, here is her e-mail to West and DeJutte. The motion filed in California on Thursday is embedded below.
This was e-mailed to assistant US attorneys Roger West and David DeJutte : Dr. Orly Taitz Esquire.
Gentlemen
I would like to schedule a short phone meet and confer conference for today at 4pm regarding filing a motion to transfer of this case to DC.
thank you,
Dr. Orly Taitz ESQ
What a hoot. Ms. Taitz doesn’t understand about the concept of “case dismissed.” It seems that Ms. Taitz didn’t get her law degree from distance education, but out of a Cracker Jacks box (that was is in jest).
The jest is for the follow legal code that Taitz is using. “28 US Code Chapter 87 () 1404(a)… a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district court or division.” She just doesn’t understand what those words mean, and she continue to make nonsensical arguments.