You may recall that Judge Land (the Bush appointee) had previously dismissed the Complaint filed by Connie Rhodes, a flight surgeon who was questioning her orders to be deployed to Iraq. He found the filing frivolous and warned her counsel, Orly Taitz, not to darken his doorstep again. Naturally, Orly turned around and filed an emergency motion to stay deployment (in which Orly, amongst other things, accused the judge of treason). Judge Land, none too happy, issued a show cause order two weeks ago, giving Taitz two weeks to show cause why he should not impose a fine of $10,000 for her conduct.

Bearing down on the close of business, Orly filed a Motion to Recuse Judge Land. It is truly one of the most amazing things I have ever seen filed by an attorney, anywhere, in my 27 years of practice.

It is vintage Orly, in that it contains a myriad of wacky legal theories, such as a judge has no power to impose Rule 11 sanctions. She takes particular umbrage at Land's having referred to her as a de facto leader of the birther movement, stating that he in essence called her "batshit crazy". (Yes, that's really in there).

Orly also complains mightily that Judge Land issued his decisions with great speed, accusing him of never having read the lawsuit. I guess she thought she was being clever when she used the term "blitzkrieg speed", implying that he was a Nazi brownshirt without really saying it.

Orly also accuses Judge Land of having ex parte contact with Eric Holder, (who of course threatened and unduly influenced the Judge to rule against her) but her promised affidavit to support that claim seems not to have materialized (surprise, surprise).

My summary cannot really do the pleading justice. Those of you who are interested can read it here

Orly also filed a motion to extend time (basically a motion for continuance to tell him why he should not fine her) which can be read here

UPDATE: It appears that a good part of Orly's Motion to Recuse Judge Land was cut and pasted from a Motion to Recuse that Orly filed in Judge Lazzara's federal court in Florida. For those of you who are interested in the details of this stuff, please see the native born citizen blog here. The blogger has down an outstanding job of compiling (and analyzing) all of this craziness. It is one of my favorite resources on this topic.