Taitz Finds a Client Crazier Than She Is

Federation of Super Heroes

I have no idea if its the same collection of apparent nutters or not, but does seem to be an International Federation of Super Heroes (iFOSH):

Comprised of more than 20,000 leaders in 100 countries, The International Federation of Super Heroes (IFOSH) is the world’s largest network of Superheroes on the planet. IFOSH connects all members to exchange ideas, pursue learning and share strategies to achieve personal growth and professional success. …

Strangely, there are no obvious updates to the site since c.2010. I knew the world was in bad shape, but there’s been no time to update the rabid audience of any recent successes?

(Not sure here if “success” is preventing or promoting yet another world problem.)

@blf #1 – Nothing since when in 2010? And when did Judd get locked away? Because, surely, the lack of updates and this nutter’s incarceration could not be linked. Right?

I think my biggest takeaway is that all of the jokes I’ve heard about West Virgina pale in comparison to the apparent reality.

You don’t mess with the Federation of Super Heroes.

You don’t mess with the Federation of Super Heroes.

You don’t take the mask off The Lone Ranger…

I picked this up from Orly’s site:

Arizona Republican Party Chairman Tom Morrissey, who questioned President Barack Obama’s eligibility to president earlier this week, told a Phoenix radio station he’s not a birther, then said Obama’s birth certificate “is not a real document.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/tom-morrissey-arizona-birther_n_2332819.html

Uh …. riiight! But then there is this:

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who has vetoed birther legislation in the state, said she does not agree with Morrissey or his allies in the Electoral College.

What can you say about a politician who is more crazed than Jan Brewer?

Since when can convicted felons run for president? Or is it that they can run but cannot BE president?

I expect that a lot of the 40% in W. VA who voted for Judd were Republicans, not to make him win over Obama, but because of his total craziness. I can here them now: “Well hell, he’s one of us!”

He was in prison and he got 40% of the vote against a sitting president?

In the primary. You might want to look into details like what the turnout was for the Dem primary with an incumbent Dem president running for re-election, and whether WV allows voting across party lines or same day party re-affiliation in primaries.

Eugene Debs ran for president in 1920 on the Socialist Party platform, and won 3.4% of the national vote – in spite of the fact that he was in the middle of a 10-year prison sentence at the time.

He was in prison for the horrendous crime of speaking out against Woodrow Wilson, the war, and the draft.

I don’t really have any point for sharing this, other than to point out that there is precedent for someone running from prison. Of course, there’s a big difference in that Debs actually had integrity and intelligence (at least he seemed to, based on the little I know of him), while this guy is almost surely just an idiot.

To some degree, once you’ve flown over the cookoo’s nest, dropped a few screws, and are one orange short of bushel, it stops mattering. Most flavors of loony or loopy wind up tasting the same.

West Virginia has semi-closed primaries that permit unaffiliated or minority-party registrants to vote in either primary election. That said, by far the greater issue is that WV is deeply Blue Dog. The state Democratic Party essentially consists of Republicans who support blue-collar unions. Election races are contests to see who can fellate the coal industry the longest and hardest. People in the southern half of the state are so coal-blinded that they literally can’t conceive of an association with any other major industry, and they blame Obama entirely for the soft coal market. It remains to be seen how the natural gas boom will affect the overall ideology; the northern half of the state is already the more liberal and is where gas wells are popping up like weeds.

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I think you are missing Article I, Section 3, Clause 7, which reads in relevant part:

“”Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States…”

But along with the two you mentioned, those are the only restrictions I know of, and this one only applies in really weird circumstances which I don’t think have ever occurred.

The Wikipedia article explicitly notes that the Senate chose not to disqualify Hastings from holding federal office in the future. (It also goes into Hastings’s legal challenge to his impeachment conviction, and points to Nixon v. United States on the matter of jurisdiction: basically, it doesn’t matter that the impeachment was flawed, because the Supreme Court has ruled that the courts have no jurisdiction over Senate decisions on impeachments.)