Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush

Ariastis writes "Jack Thompson has filed documents with a federal court in Florida requesting to subpoena President George W. Bush for a deposition to retain Thompson's license to practice law. Ah, and Jeb Bush too, for good measure."

Comments

Re:I've seen Thompson on Law and Order

[Gaerek]

You might have been being sarcastic, but if not...wrong Thompson. Fred Thompson was on Law and Order. Jack Thompson is the asshole...

Re:Prepare for cranial explosions!

[Mattintosh]

Bar associations are not courts. They're unions for lawyers. You can sue unions. You can sue bar associations.

Re:Jack Picture

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting as anon to avoid karma whoring, but you can readily find pictures of him.

Try his wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorn ey)

Or just google image search him? There are non-photos of him there, but you should easily be able to tell which is which.
http://images.google.ca/images?client=firefox-a&ch annel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hl=en&q =jack+Thompson+&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

Re:Prepare for cranial explosions!

[morgan_greywolf]

Try again, this time understanding something about the structure of the court system in Florida. The Florida Bar is an agent of the Supreme Court of Florida:

Article V, Section 15 of the Constitution of the State of Florida gives the Supreme Court of Florida exclusive and ultimate authority to regulate the admission of persons to the practice of law and the discipline of those persons who are admitted to practice. The Court performs those official functions through two separate arms: the Florida Board of Bar Examiners , which screens, tests and certifies candidates for admission to the practice; and The Florida Bar, the investigative and prosecutorial authority in the lawyer regulatory process. Neither of these two agencies, nor any of their functions, is supported by state tax dollars
(source)

Re:WORST ... SLASHDOT ... STORY ... EVER

[Bryan Ischo]

Thanks for the great response, the points you make are very good.

But it was indeed "Slashdot: News for Nerds on the Stuff That Matters" at one point. If you look at this link from archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://s lashdot.org/ ... which is the oldest slashdot.org link there (from Jan 13, 1998), you can see this. On my browser the logo at the top of the page is just a grey blob which I am sure was at one point a picture reading "Slashdot: News for Nerds on the Stuff that Matters". If you look at the HTML source, you can see that the alt text for this image is the old slogan.

The next oldest link that works from archive.org is from Nov. 11, 1998, and the logo and the alt text at that point had already been changed to "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."

My memory was wrong, I thought that the change happened in late 1999 or 2000 sometime, around the time that Slashdot's parent company (Andover.net) went public. I guess it was sometime in 1998 that the slogan was changed.

Re:stuck in court

[nomadic]

Fogive my ignorance of the US legal system but my understanding from TFA is that because they wont respond to his supeona that the disbarment is stuck in limbo for the time being at least?

Nope. His theory is he may have to wait until Bush leaves office for the subpoena to be issued, which he is willing to wait for. Even if he got the subpoena issued and Bush didn't show up for deposition, that doesn't automatically put the federal case in limbo either, he'd have to ask for a continuance.

The disbarment isn't being decided by the federal court; I'm guessing from the article (which isn't too detailed) is he's suing to stop the disbarment proceedings.

He thinks he can game the system, but he's pretty much at the end of his rope. The Florida Bar may have been willing to settle cases in the past with him just to avoid the headache, but there's too much pressure, and his tactics have gotten so weird that they won't be able to just let it go this time.

I don't think he actually believes that Bush will show up, he probably just thinks if he makes a big enough mess for the courts, judges, mediators and the bar that they'll just give in and let him keep his license.

Re:sounds to me

[forkazoo]

Suing the person that's meant to be mediating the dispute is taking things a little far, even for him... If he keeps suing the judges and courts, who's going to finally judge the case, and where? If you want to use the legal system to your advantage, you can't sue it... I would have thought a lawyer would realise that.

AFAIR, this won't be Jack' first time filing against a judge in one of his cases. Whenever he doesn't like a judge, he has convinced himself that suing the judge will result in a conflict of interest, and force the judge to recuse himself, allowing him to arbitrarily judge-shop until he finds somebody he thinks will kow-tow to his bullshit for fear of being sued.

Unfortunately for Jack, there is no clear precedent requiring a judge to recuse himself if he gets sued by someone involved in a case he is judging. Naturally, this is because such a precedent would enable exactly what Jack wants. IIRC, the last judge he sued didn't recuse himself because of being sued, but eventually did recuse himself because there was a conflict of interest arising from the fact that the judge was filing a formal complaint about Jack being an asshat.

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