FORMER LAWYERS?I knew they had both lost their law license, but I didn’t know why until I read this.
This is 100% legit. I check it out at www.iardc.org/ Stands for Illinois Attorney Registration And Disciplinary Committee. It’s the official arm of lawyer discipline in Illinois ; and they are very strict. (Talk about irony.) Even I, at the advanced age of almost 65, maintain (at the cost of approximately $600/year) my law license that I worked so hard and long to earn.
Big surprise. Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and U.S. President Makes Up Constitutional Quotes During State Of The Union (SOTU) Address.
Consider this:
1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a “lawyer”. He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. A “Voluntary Surrender” is not something where you decide “Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?” and forget to renew your license. No, a “Voluntary Surrender” is something you do when you’ve been accused of something, and you ‘voluntarily surrender” your license five seconds before the state suspends you.
2 Michelle Obama “voluntarily surrendered” her law license in 1993. after a Federal Judge gave her the choice between surrendering her license or standing trial for Insurance fraud!
3. Facts.Source:
4. A senior lecturer is one thing, a fully ranked law professor is another. Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Chicago .
5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “served as a professor” in the law school-but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.
6. “He did not hold the title of Professor of Law,” said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law.
Source: Blogs.SunTimes.com
7. The former Constitutional Senior Lecturer (Obama) cited the U.S. Constitution the other night during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence … not the Constitution.
8. The B-Cast posted the video: Breitbart.tv/
9. Free Republic : In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said: “We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal.
10. Um, wrong citing, wrong founding document there Champ, I mean Mr. President. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named them unalienable rights. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
11. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech?
When you are a phony it’s hard to keep facts straight. Keep this moving — educate others
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#1Peter JohnSeptember 6, 2012, 3:01 pm
In fact they never had a deal to make, because they never faced any ethics charges. While it is true that they did not hold the official “professor” title, they served as professors, or at least the our American President did — kind of like what they call an “acting jack” NCO or officer in the military.
#2ClintJune 29, 2012, 3:36 pm
Kneejerk response:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp
More thoughtful response, which I just typed up to someone yesterday:
1) go to http://www.iardc.org/
2) go into “lawyer search”
3) type in “Obama” into last name – ” Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law ”
4) You can see they were not disbarred.
5) if you want to see what someone who is disbarred looks like, put Cueto in the last name and Amiel in the first name. Note the “Not authorized to practice law due to discipline” which does not appear on either of the Obama’s.
If they made a deal, it was one that kept their licenses in perfect standing (albeit not active), which is not what happens when one is disbarred.
And honestly, if you don’t practice law, you’re wasting $600/yr. Voluntarily go inactive, you can re-activate it later.
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