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Judge Wonders Aloud If Orly Taitz Suborned Perjury

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Others have already noted this passage from a smack-down ruling against Orly Taitz in a California Birther suit last week. But it's worth highlighting that the judge in the case suggested Taitz may have suborned perjury.

Check out these sentences from the lengthy order by Judge David Carter of the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California:

[T]he Court has received several sworn affidavits that Taitz asked potential witnesses that she planned to call before this Court to perjure themselves. This Court is deeply concerned that Taitz may have suborned perjury through witnesses she intended to bring before this Court.

That's a pretty serious charge -- though there's no indication the judge has referred the matter to prosecutors. All of the affidavits in question are not publicly available, but the Washington Independent's Dave Weigel has reported on one from Larry Sinclair, himself an anti-Obama activist with a history of making wild claims.

Weigel reported in September:

In [the affidavit], Sinclair recounts being ushered into Taitz's office and being told by her to "testify that three (3) member (sic) of Obama's church were murder (sic)." Sinclair claims to have recoiled at this, at which point Taitz encouraged him to say it anyway.

"You testifying that three (3) members of Obama's church were murdered will help me establish that expedited delivery is necessary because people wind up dead over Obama."

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November 2, 2009 5:35 PM   

Thanks for the muckraking, TPM! If it weren't for you, there's be no sunlight shining on Ms. Taitz's antics...

P.S. Where do you find these pictures of her?

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November 2, 2009 6:25 PM    in reply to CT Voter

I thought nothing could be worse than your earlier picture. I cheerfully admit that I was mistaken.

Orly Taitz and Avigdor Lieberman — remind me never to visit Moldova.

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November 3, 2009 5:35 PM    in reply to CT Voter

The photo? Just when you're convinced that matters finally can't get worse . . . they do.

I was thinking of suggesting that in place of the photo there should be a disclaimer --

"Photo Deleted for Protection of Public Health" --

or similar.

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November 2, 2009 5:40 PM   

This ain't news. Some of us noticed this right off the bat.

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November 2, 2009 5:41 PM   

Josh & Justin! THANKS for putting this on TPM. Why is she allowed to do whatever she wants and she gets away with it? Why hasn't this clown been disbarred?

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November 3, 2009 5:37 PM    in reply to Joe

Essentially it's the same in every profession: until a practitioner is sufficiently extreme to embarrass the profession itself -- the profession's image is more important than the harm done the public -- the practitioner is allowed to continue. Happens all the time in medicine and psychiatry.

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November 2, 2009 6:01 PM   

Keep the pictures coming. With each one I'm learning strange new things about myself.

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November 3, 2009 5:38 PM    in reply to otto parts

I'll make a deal with you:

if you won't reveal those strange new things, I won't reveal those about me.

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November 2, 2009 6:14 PM   

You do realize that the "Sinclair" here is none other than Larry Sinclair - yes the same Larry Sinclair who got arrested for various fraud-related offences outside the National Press club where he claimed to have homosexual liaisons with former IL state-Senator Obama.

So it's entirely likely that Taitz encouraged her witnesses to perjure themselves, on the other hand nothing that Sinclair says can be trusted one little bit. The man has so loose a grip on reality that by comparison Mrs taitz is a rock of sanity.

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November 2, 2009 7:04 PM    in reply to Salim Fadhley

The filing in Liberi v. Taitz didn't says she sought perjury from her former staff. Looks like a pattern to me.

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November 2, 2009 7:05 PM    in reply to Just Browsing

That should have said: The filing in Liberi v. Taitz says she sought perjury from her former staff. Looks like a pattern to me.


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November 2, 2009 7:01 PM   

>>> But it's worth highlighting that the judge in the case suggested Taitz may have suborned perjury. >>>>

The Liberi v. Taitz case has a new filing in it about Orly seeking perjury too.

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November 2, 2009 7:18 PM   

Don't forget about the Lucas Smith Afadavit.

The one with all the details about Orly and Charles Lincoln. LOL

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November 2, 2009 7:33 PM   

Makes you wonder about all her prior cases, doesn't it?

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November 3, 2009 2:17 PM   

Ms. Taitz has been viciously attacked but it isn't about her. She, Phil Berg or some other lawyer will get to the bottom of this. But don't you Obamaphiles find it just a little strange Obama has spent over $1.5 million on lawyers to block the release of his original birth certificate? Hummmm? What's he hiding? Ok, well then, how about his use of dozens of social security numbers and what about him producing a phony 2 year old Selective Service card? Why is he keeping his passport and college records secret? Hummmm? And the Obamaphiles respond: Orly a kook, Orly bad, Orly bad.

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November 3, 2009 2:59 PM    in reply to Joe D

Poe's law at work. I'm fairly certain this isn't meant to be a parody, but can we really be sure?

Assuming you're serious, Joe, how do you "know" that the birth certificate he already released isn't real? How do you "know" that he used "dozens of social security numbers"? How do you "know" that he produced a phony 2 year old Selective Service card? Is it perchance on the testimony of perjurers? You're assuming that we're all blind to the truth. Can you admit that it is possible that we're not the blind ones? Consider the scale of the conspiracy required if we are the blind ones here.

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November 3, 2009 5:41 PM    in reply to Joe D

"Ms. Taitz has been viciously attacked but it isn't about her."

Except that it IS about her: her abuses of the process and courts have been committed by HER, NOT by anyone else.

Otherwise, either get some basic education in the basics of both court rules and elections law. Then STFU, loon.

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November 3, 2009 4:47 PM   

Does it strike anyone as odd that someone who evidently cannot conjugate the words 'member' and 'murder' would subsequently quote Taitz's as saying "[you] will help me establish that expedited delivery is necessary"?

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