Sibley, right, with “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, whom he represented in a 2007 case. (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)
In his latest zany attempt to discredit President Obama’s legitimacy to hold office, D.C.’s favorite disbarred lawyer/marijuana activist/crackpot presidential candidate/birther Montgomery Blair Sibley is attempting a new legal strategy: Using defendants and convicts of a 2009 federal anti-fraud law to file court motions to protest their charges because law was signed by someone Sibley believes to not be worthy of serving as president.
Comparing the new strategy to the Stuxnet computer virus that crippled Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, Sibley writes in a press release that his template motion against the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act will surely result in a court hearing his claim that Obama is not a natural-born citizen and is thus not qualified to serve as president. The last we heard from Sibley, in December, he was clamoring against a judge in U.S. District Court who would not give him a hearing date.
Sibley argues that because Obama is a pretender president, his signature on the anti-fraud statute is illegitimate. The motion he is offering to suspected and convicted fraudsters calls for a dismissal of all charges and subpoenas for documentation about Obama’s birth, which, by the way, is viewable here. Among the evidence Sibley cites in his motion is a YouTube clip of a 14-year-old “examining” the president’s birth certificate.
“Once the motion is properly presented, the courts will be forced to deal with the merits of Obama’s legitimacy,” Sibley writes in a press release. “The doctrine of ‘standing’ will no longer be a barrier to adjudication. My motion forces the courts to make the choice of issuing the requested subpoenas—thereby finally settling the issue of Obama’s eligibility to be president—or affirming that the Sixth Amendment has been repealed by judicial fiat because it threatens the status quo.”
But will Sibley actually find convicts to take up his cause? Apparently so. In an email to DCist, Sibley writes that he has found some interested parties from perhaps the only place where one would expect sympathizers to his aimless cause might be found. “I have gotten positive feedback through third parties from three who were convicted under FERA in Florida,” Sibley writes.
Sibley teaming up Floridian financial criminals: Perfect. Of course, if this pans out, Sibley will have to offer his sage legal advice from afar. He was kicked off the Sunshine State bar in 2008.
