Scratch & Sniff Test: Obama's Court Ordered Inactive Law License Status Under Scrutiny
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The Scratch & Sniff Test
By Linda Jordan | Birther Report
- May 20, 2013 -
Excuses offered by obots, the main stream media and Barack and Michelle Obama as to why they “voluntarily” gave up their license to practice law don’t pass the scratch and sniff test.
They want us to believe that, by their own description, the two most famous, “brilliant”, intelligent Harvard Law School graduates of this century voluntarily gave up their right to practice law just a few short years after they purportedly passed the bar.
(After so many lies “purportedly” is the preamble to anything Obama.)
I have talked to several attorneys about this premise. What they had to go through, physically, mentally and financially, to get to the point where they could pass the bar was no small matter! To think that they would voluntarily relinquish their law license just a few years later, before you could even begin to pay back the money it took to get there, is beyond the pale. (At the time the Obamas purportedly attended Harvard law School tuition was around $25,000 a year.)
Michelle Obama was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1989. Barack in 1991. Michelle’s last registered year as a lawyer with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC) was 1993. (the last year she paid her dues)
A 2008, 2009 and 2010 screen shot of Michelle Obama’s ARDC record shows that as of 1994 she did not need malpractice insurance because she was on “court ordered inactive status”.
So just four years after getting her hard earned law degree she is on “court ordered inactive status”. But the excusers say it was “voluntary” inactive status and sure enough sometime after the September 2010 screen shot Michelle’s record was changed to simply say she did not need malpractice insurance because she was on “inactive status”. The “court ordered” had disappeared.
By all accounts the last year Barack Obama purportedly practiced any law was around 1994, just three years after “earning” his Harvard law degree. “After graduating from Harvard Law, Obama went to work at least nominally as an associate attorney at the small Chicago law firm then known as "Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard," with which he continued to be affiliated in a more limited capacity throughout his Illinois Legislature tenure up until his U.S. Senate run in 2004….that law firm says Obama logged 3,723 billable hours during his tenure from 1993 to 2004, most of it during the first four years." http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/06/nyt-obama-stand.html#update
That’s 930 hours per year over 4 years. Divide 930 divided by a 40 hour work week and at best Obama purportedly worked as a lawyer for 92 weeks. A hot shot, brilliant beyond belief, Harvard lawyer practices his craft for two years and then calls it quits! Right.
This May 2009 ARDC screen shot shows that Barack Obama “voluntarily retired” from the practice of law, doesn’t say what year he did this, and that the last year he paid his dues, or registered with the ARDC, was 2008.
Now it’s true that a lawyer in Illinois can voluntarily go on inactive or retirement status. And if you pay the annual fee to the ARDC (currently $342 for active status and $105 for Inactive Status) it is relatively easy to go back to active status. Here’s one for Phyllis Schlafly who has kept her registration with the ARDC current:
But it is also true that being placed on inactive status and retired status can be disciplinary actions.
Below is a copy of the March 2013 Illinois Supreme Court’s latest “disciplinary filing”. This ‘ANNOUNCEMENT OF DISCIPLINARY DECISIONS’ is from the Illinois State Bar Association website:
“March 18, 2013 2:00 pm
LAWYER DISCIPLINARY ORDERS INFORMATION RELEASE
The Supreme Court of Illinois has announced the filing of lawyer disciplinary orders entered on March 15, 2013 during the January Term of Court. Sanctions were imposed because the lawyers engaged in professional misconduct by violating state ethics law.
The attached list contains the name of each disciplined lawyer, the address at which the lawyer last practiced, and a brief summary of the misconduct that led to the sanction. The announcement of the orders may be reviewed at the Supreme Court of Illinois website: www.state.il.us/court. Unless otherwise noted, the mandate of discipline issued immediately.” (http://www.iardc.org/co_pressreleases_copy67.html)
You can read below that in this “announcement of disciplinary decisions” there were two attorneys placed on permanent retirement status in this “disciplinary order” as a disciplinary action.
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And, straight from the Illinois Supreme Court Website:
“M.R.25894 - In re: Theodore Stanley Proud. Disciplinary Commission. The petition by petitioner Theodore Stanley Proud to be placed on permanent retirement status pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 756(a)(9) is allowed, effective immediately. Order entered by the Court.” (http://www.state.il.us/court/SupremeCourt/Announce/2013/031513.pdf)
ALSO notice in this “disciplinary order” that being placed on "inactive status" can be a disciplinary measure.
“M.R.25201 - In re: Christopher M. Stone. (May 18, 2012)
Disciplinary Commission.
The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Review Board is allowed. Respondent Christopher M. Stone is transferred to inactive status until further order of Court pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 758. Order entered by the Court.” http://www.state.il.us/court/supremecourt/Announce/2012/051812.pdf
Excusers who say that the ARDC record for the Obamas shows no ‘Public Record of Discipline and Pending Proceedings’ should note that Rule 756 9 C. of the Rules Governing the Legal Profession and Judiciary in Illinois states that:
C. If permanent retirement status is granted, the Administrator and/or the Inquiry Board shall close any pending disciplinary investigation of the attorney. The Administrator may resume such investigations pursuant to Commission Rule 54 and may initiate additional investigations and proceedings of the attorney as circumstances warrant.
And that disciplinary records are generally expunged after three years.
Rule 778. Retention of Records by Administrator
(b) Expungement. The Administrator shall expunge the record of an investigation concluded by dismissal or closure by the Administrator or Inquiry Board three years after the disposition of the investigation, unless deferral of expunction is warranted under paragraph (c). (c) Deferral of Expungement of Investigative Materials. Expungement of an investigative file and all related materials under paragraph (b) shall be deferred until the passage of three years from the later of the following events: (1) the conclusion of any pending disciplinary or disability proceeding related to the attorney before the Hearing or Review Boards or the Court; or (2) the termination of any previously imposed sanction (including suspension, disbarment or probation) or the restoration of the attorney from disability inactive to active status; or (3) the termination of any permanent retirement status related to the attorney.
The story that the Obamas willingly gave up their right to practice law stinks to high heaven. You don’t have to scratch very deep to smell this load of garbage. - By Linda Jordan.
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