Witnesses Against Kagan Include Head Of Conspiracy-Mad Law Firm

One has to wonder what the Hell the GOP is trying to do in terms of some of the utter loonies that have been called as opposition witnesses against Elana Kagan's nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court. I have commented before on Klan loving Tony Perkins' testimony against Kagan. Another utter crazy is William J. Olson, Esq. (pictured at left) of William J. Olson, P.C. -- a law firm that is heavily involved in all sorts of conservative cause celebres, from the standard-issue, to the totally bonkers - and which includes Herbert Titus, the founding dean of Pat Robertson's Regent Law School and father of Troy A. Titus, a Regent Law graduate, just sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for real estate and wire fraud. Huffington Post looks at the insanity of this GOP witnesses insanity. Here are some highlights:
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Of particular interest is one witness who will be testifying against Kagan, William J. Olson, Esq. of William J. Olson, P.C. -- a law firm that is heavily involved in all sorts of conservative cause celebres, from the standard-issue, to the totally bonkers.
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Olson's lent his services to a pair of high-profile cases in the past year. His firm has filed amicus briefs in the Citizens United case as well as the recently decided Supreme Court case that overturned Chicago's gun ban. Olson's firm has also taken up the quixotic Tea Party cause to recall New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. From there, however, things take a turn for the outlandish. Highlights include:
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The Search For Fort Knox Gold! An organization called the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) is worried that the U.S. Government has been secretly flooding the market with gold from Fort Knox in order to keep it's value low. Well, Olson's firm has taken up the cause:
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Jesus Will Cure Your Cancer With Food Supplements! Olson's co-counsel, John S. Miles, took up the cause of Daniel Chapter One, a Christian Ministry that ran afoul of the FTC for running advertisements for miracle cancer cures "with Web headlines like 'Brain Tumor Gone!' and on a two-hour weekday Internet radio program filled with virulent attacks on contemporary medicine." In response to the appeal, FTC lawyer Elizabeth K, Nach said the First Amendment does not apply to commercial speech that is deceptive.
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You Just Knew There Would Be Some Birther Junk Up In The Mix! Another one of Olson's co-counsel's, Herb Titus, shows up on this article on the birther-mad website WorldNetDaily: A one-time vice presidential candidate who is considered an expert on the U.S. Constitution says it is up the electors from the 50 states to make certain President-elect Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen before they cast votes for him in the Electoral College Dec. 15.
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"If they do their duty, they would make sure that if they cast a vote for Mr. Obama, that Mr. Obama is a natural-born citizen," Herb Titus, the Constitution Party's running mate to Howard Phillips in 1996, told WND today.
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As a former Republican from a family of Republicans, I can only wonder what's in the water that these members of the GOP are drinking? Or does one now need to be certifiably insane to be a modern day Republican? Oh, and for the record, I have serious doubts about Kagan and I assisted the FBI in Troy Titus' prosecution.

Proposition 8 and Christianist Bible Bable

From time to time I check to see what the anti-gay elements are up to and in the process of engaging in that exercise I happened across an article on CNSNews.com discussing the oral arguments on Proposition 8 before the California Supreme Court and was surprised to see that Herbert Titus, founding dean of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School had injected himself into the debate. Titus is no stranger to far right circles and the myth of the USA being founded as a "Christian nation." His commentary on Proposition 8 further underscore the inability of the Christianists to remove their religious views from consideration of the civil laws. It is also more than ironic, however, that Titus is meddling in the families of others when his own is such a mess and one of his sons is under indictment from stealing money from his law clients. Here is a sampling of Titus' drivel:
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[T]he real argument against same-sex marriage comes from the recognition that all law stems from God’s law. “Our legal system is based upon the assumption that if human beings pass a rule, if that rule is contrary to God’s law, its not law at all,” Titus said. “We’ve forgotten that.”

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Ironically, the very foundation of the American legal system – God’s law – is now forbidden in American courtrooms, he added. Judges today, Titus said, have absolutely no regard for anyone who will argue on God’s law – or even natural law.

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If the nation, in fact, allows judges to create same-sex marriage – eliminating God’s law as the basis for our own statutes – the consequences will be destroy democracy. “It may not happen in a single generation, but ultimately that’s what happens,” Titus said. “Every society that has attempted to establish a system of rules governing sexual relationships discovers that if they do not honor God’s law with regard to sex, then they will suffer economically, they will suffer physically, and certainly they will suffer loss of liberty.”

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Highlights from a Virginian Pilot story gives a glimpse of God's law and family values as practiced in the Titus family. To me, the story indicates that Titus needs to clean up his own family before he pontificates and tries to deny family rights and equality under the to others (Note: his son always wore his alleged Christian faith on his sleeve to gain the confidence of victims):

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The FBI on Tuesday arrested disbarred lawyer Troy A. Titus on a federal indictment, charging him with defrauding at least $1.5 million from former clients, including onetime R&B star Teddy Riley.

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Agents arrested Titus, 42, at his Chesapeake home about 7 a.m. following a lengthy investigation into his real estate dealings. Titus made a brief appearance that afternoon in U.S. District Court, where the 10-count indictment was unsealed.

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While the indictment lists cash losses of about $1.5 million, it says the actual losses could be millions more when foreclosed-upon homes and properties are factored in. According to the indictment, Titus had claimed to be making real estate investments on a number of properties, but he often never filed deeds of trust or he filed deeds of trust on properties that already had liens on them worth more than the properties' assessed values.

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Titus also is accused of preying on a widow.