OC-based Obama gadfly says her law license in jeopardy

SANTA ANA — A Rancho Santa Margarita-based attorney who is seeking to prove President Barack Obama was not born in the United States said today her California law license is in jeopardy.

Orly Taitz has filed several lawsuits challenging Obama's eligibility to be president, all of which have been thrown out and are being appealed. She has recently filed a preliminary injunction in Washington, D.C., that
demands Obama's birth certificates and other records such as his passport be turned over.

Taitz is asking a judge to order the president to turn over the records by Feb. 26, the day she is required to explain to the California Bar Association why she should not be disciplined after U.S. District Court Judge in Georgia ruled she has to pay a $20,000 fine for "frivolous'' legal attempts to keep one of her lawsuits alive in Georgia.

Taitz is representing herself. Even if she loses her law license, she could press forward with the case, she said.

Taitz claims Obama was not born in the United States despite a newspaper birth announcement at the time and state officials in Hawaii confirming he was born there. Taitz also does not accept the validity of the birth certificate that Obama has offered as proof.

She claims that US citizenship acquired through his American mother if he was born abroad does not qualify him to be president, but the law on this is disputed among experts.

In the preliminary injunction request, Taitz revives her argument that Obama is using 39 different Social Security numbers and even suggests her life has been threatened.

"After she received a threat to kill her and burn her body for the whole world to see, there was a warning signal in her car,'' Taitz wrote in the legal brief. "Test by a mechanic showed that the fumes emissions hose was disconnected and hot combustable (sic) fumes were going back to the engine which was a dangerous condition for her and her family riding in the car.''

Taitz has hired attorney Jon Harris Levy to represent her as she fights the $20,000 sanction in Georgia. She is appealing two lawsuits in Georgia and another one in California that was thrown out by U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana in December.

"What concerns me is corruption,'' Taitz said when asked if she feared she would lose her ability to practice law in California. "If the California bar acts according to law and the constitution not only will they not reprimand me or take action against my license, they will submit a brief on my behalf to the appellate court.''

But Taitz contended most trial lawyers are Democrats and she is afraid the bar will discipline her.