1. Orly Taitz is an Israeli-American political conspiracy theorist and political candidate.
60 Facts About Orly Taitz
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Orly Taitz promotes other conspiracy theories both related and unrelated to Obama.
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Orly Taitz has initiated lawsuits on behalf of the "birther" movement; all were dismissed by the courts, and on one occasion Orly Taitz was ordered to pay $20,000 as a sanction for misconduct in filing frivolous claims.
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Orly Taitz has unsuccessfully run in statewide elections in California three times.
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Orly Taitz was born to a Jewish family in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, in the Soviet Union.
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In 1981, Orly Taitz immigrated to Israel, where she obtained a dentistry degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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In 1987, she met Yosef Orly Taitz who proposed four months later.
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Orly Taitz immigrated to the United States in May 1987, marrying the Latvian-born Yosef in Las Vegas.
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Orly Taitz received her law degree from Taft Law School and was admitted to practice law in California in December 2002.
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Orly Taitz has three sons, holds a second degree black belt in Taekwondo, and speaks five languages: English, Hebrew, Romanian or Moldovan, Russian, and Spanish.
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Orly Taitz claimed that US president Obama was not a natural-born citizen of the United States and was therefore ineligible to serve as president.
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Orly Taitz claimed he was born in Kenya and that he falsified his Selective Service papers and his application to the Illinois bar.
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Orly Taitz has supported a number of other theories not directly related to Obama, including:.
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Orly Taitz has advocated numerous Internet-related theories, including PayPal attacks, the deletion of her Wikipedia entry, and Google's flagging her webpage as an attack site and suppressing search results for her name.
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Orly Taitz has stated that 2016 Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Bobby Jindal were not natural-born citizens and therefore were ineligible for the office they sought.
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In November 2008, Orly Taitz, acting on behalf of independent presidential candidate Alan Keyes, sued California's secretary of state, Debra Bowen, for allegedly failing to ascertain Obama's eligibility for the presidency before placing him on the ballot.
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Orly Taitz filed an emergency petition in the California Supreme Court in 2008 on behalf of Libertarian vice presidential candidate Gail Lightfoot to stop the certification of California's 2008 election results because of the challenge to Obama's eligibility.
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Orly Taitz filed a lawsuit on behalf of Pamela Barnett, Alan Keyes, other candidates in the 2008 federal elections, several military personnel, and some legislators from various states alleging that Obama was ineligible to be president.
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On June 11,2012, the US Supreme Court declined, without comment, a request by litigants not represented by Orly Taitz to hear the case.
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Orly Taitz filed an appeal in the Eleventh Circuit, which was dismissed on November 24,2009, due to a failure to prosecute the appeal.
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In September 2009, Orly Taitz was retained by Captain Connie Rhodes, a US Army physician.
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Orly Taitz noted that while she seemed to have "conscientious objections" to taking orders from Obama, she did not seem to object to serving under him "as long as she is permitted to remain on American soil".
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Land then upbraided Orly Taitz for using military officers as pawns to further her claims that Obama was not qualified to be president.
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Orly Taitz repeated her treason allegations against Land and made several other intemperate statements, including claims that Land was aiding and abetting purported aspirations of "dictatorship" by Obama.
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On September 26,2009, Orly Taitz filed a motion with the court seeking to withdraw as counsel for Rhodes, so she could divulge in court "privileged attorney-client communications" since the dismissed Rhodes case "is a quasi-criminal prosecution of the undersigned attorney, for the purpose of punishment".
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Orly Taitz owed a duty to follow the rules and to respect the Court.
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Orly Taitz expresses no contrition or regret regarding her misconduct.
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On March 15,2010, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the sanctions against Orly Taitz, ordering her to pay the $20,000 fine.
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In July 2010, Orly Taitz applied to the US Supreme Court to stay the enforcement of sanctions, arguing that "allowing sanctions by judge Land to stand will signify beginning of tyranny in the United States of America and end to the Constitutional Republic which is the foundation of this nation".
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In February 2011, Orly Taitz filed, in propria persona, a Freedom of Information Act suit against the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, alleging the agency improperly refused to disclose to her information about Obama's social security number.
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Orly Taitz sought to compel White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler under FOIA to grant access to Obama's "long form" birth certificate.
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In November 2011, Orly Taitz, backed by four New Hampshire state legislators, filed a complaint with the state's Ballot Law Commission challenging Obama's eligibility to compete in the primary election.
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Orly Taitz called eight witnesses, and presented seven exhibits in support of her claims that Obama was not a natural-born citizen, has used multiple names, has multiple Social Security numbers, and used a fake birth certificate.
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Orly Taitz asked Malihi to fine Obama in contempt for failing to appear.
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Orly Taitz agreed to represent Hendershot and sought to enter the case, but it was dismissed before she could make an appearance.
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Orly Taitz made false claims, arguing that the President's surname was not Obama, that he was not a natural-born citizen, and that he was using a stolen Social Security number.
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In February 2012, Orly Taitz sued the Mississippi state Democratic Party and the Mississippi Secretary of State alleging Obama was not a natural born citizen.
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Orly Taitz accused the party of aiding and abetting in forgery and fraud when it submitted to the court a copy of Obama's birth certificate.
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Orly Taitz accused the registrar of being complicit with the forgery.
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Orly Taitz filed a lawsuit in Indiana, and attempted to subpoena Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and one of his assistants, Mike Zullo, to compel them to testify about the results of their investigation into Obama's birth certificate.
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In September 2012, Orly Taitz attempted to address a Kansas state board that had been reviewing a challenge to Obama's placement on the ballot, but her request to speak was denied.
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Orly Taitz withdrew her petition on January 9,2014 and the suit was dismissed the following day.
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In 2012, Orly Taitz was retained by a medical marijuana activist who had been arrested while attempting to gather signatures for a ballot initiative.
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In 2014, in response to the National Basketball Association banning Donald Sterling for making racist remarks, Orly Taitz filed a "complaint" with the NBA, requesting that it ban Shaquille O'Neal because he, in Orly Taitz's opinion, "publicly bullied" a disabled person.
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In 2014, Orly Taitz filed a lawsuit challenging the transfer of undocumented immigrants from South Texas to other states, claiming they would spread communicable diseases.
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In July 2015, the court dismissed almost of all Orly Taitz's lawsuit, ruling she lacked standing to challenge the federal government's immigration practices.
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In 2014, Orly Taitz filed a second lawsuit in Texas, alleging the Centers for Disease Control failed to provide her with information she requested about Ebola and other communicable diseases in the United States.
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In 2015, Orly Taitz filed a third lawsuit in Texas, alleging the federal government's grant of asylum and refuge status encouraged undocumented immigrants to engage in identity theft.
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Orly Taitz alleged Obama was using a stolen Social Security number, forged identification documents, and a false name.
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In 2020, Orly Taitz expressed interest in joining Donald Trump's legal team for the post-election lawsuits he filed challenging the 2020 US presidential election, but expressed skepticism at the assertion made by the legal team that Trump won by a landslide.
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In 2021, Orly Taitz unsuccessfully sued Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to stop the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
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On June 17,2010, Orly Taitz filed a lawsuit in the Orange County Superior Court contesting the election results, again alleging Dunn's ineligibility.
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In October 2012, Orly Taitz tried to revive her election lawsuit by asking the court to compel Occidental College to produce student records for President Obama, who attended Occidental from 1979 to 1981.
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The judge ruled that Orly Taitz's motion did not meet basic legal requirements and ordered her to pay $4,000 in sanctions to Occidental's lawyer for the cost of opposing the motion.
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Orly Taitz filed paperwork indicating her intent to become the Attorney General of California in the 2014 blanket primary.
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Orly Taitz has actively promoted her conspiracy theories in Israel, where she falsely claims that "the vast majority" of the population supports her views.
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Orly Taitz has appeared on the Channel 10 nightly news show London and Kirschenbaum, was the subject of a feature on Channel 1 TV, and filmed a video for the website Arutz 7.
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Orly Taitz received media attention in connection with Obama's presidential eligibility questions in late 2008.
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Orly Taitz was interviewed by co-hosts David Shuster and Tamron Hall on MSNBC on August 3,2009.
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Various media outlets described her appearance on the network as an "implosion", as Orly Taitz asserted that Shuster, who is Jewish, was a "brownshirt", a charge she repeated in a phone interview the following week.