Merrybelle Hodges

[Merrybelle Hodges @MerrybelleH]

@RonFilipkowski So she doesn’t have a BAR membership card….
…….she’s not a “member” of a private club…..

The BAR doesn’t issue licenses only membership cards

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

You can play whatever semantic games you want. But when you go on TV and identify yourself as a lawyer or attorney but you never passed a bar exam, represented a client, appeared in court, or signed a pleading, you know you are intentionally trying to fool the audience.

[Jarrin Jackson 👑📖🇺🇸 @JarrinJackson]

There once was a time where political messaging swayed me.

Today, when I read this (I didn’t listen), I ask, “With all the powers of the federal government, where are the prosecutions for fraud?

Repent from politics. Learn real law. Stand on your rights (powers). Fear God.

[Merrybelle Hodges @MerrybelleH]

@BellanMelissa The BAR issues membership cards……not licenses.

[Melissa J. Bellan @BellanMelissa]

Just to clear this up for folks, graduating law school makes you a JD or Juris Doctorate. Holding yourself out as an “attorney” or “lawyer” means you are LICENSED somewhere to practice. To be licensed you must pass the bar (or an apprenticeship in some states).

[Ricardo C. Davis @rcdavis]

This is what real leadership looks like. The right response is for everyone liking and sharing this post to look in the mirror and think long and hard about what they can do outside of social media to advance justice… then get busy working.

[Merrybelle Hodges @MerrybelleH]

@RonFilipkowski So she didn’t have a “membership card”?

BAR = Private membership

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

She absolutely went out of her way to intentionally mislead the viewers in every segment that she was an experienced lawyer who had practiced law. Nobody with half a brain can watch this and think otherwise. She’s a fraud, which makes her perfect for a senior Trump appointment.

[Merrybelle Hodges @MerrybelleH]

@SMB_Attorney You do understand the BAR is a private membership……..not a “license”.

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

Failing the bar exam isn’t the embarrassing part of this story 😬

Explaining that you’re a “lawyer,” just not an “attorney,” after serving as “general counsel” is where things get interesting.

Here’s what reportedly happened:

> Katie Zacharia graduated from Pepperdine’s law school in 2011. She took the California bar exam, failed, and never retook it.

> That first part is nothing to mock. The bar is hard. Plenty of excellent attorneys failed on their first attempt.

> But graduating from law school and being authorized to practice law are separate accomplishments.

> One gets you a diploma. The other gets you clients whose problems you are legally permitted to make your problems.

> Zacharia went on to work in China, publicly describe herself as a lawyer, and hold the title of “general counsel” at Fix California.

> When questions about her credentials surfaced, she offered an explanation: she says Pepperdine’s president told her she could call herself a “lawyer,” but not an “attorney” or “esquire.”

> That is an incredible amount of responsibility to place on a synonym.

> There IS a version of this distinction floating around the internet:

> “Lawyer” means someone educated in law.
> “Attorney” means someone licensed to practice it.

> You can find people making that argument. You can find dictionary discussions about it.

> The problem is that California has an actual statute.

> Business and Professions Code § 6126 covers people who practice law without authorization AND people who hold themselves out as entitled to practice law.

> That second part matters.

> You don’t necessarily have to walk into a courtroom, file a lawsuit, or bill someone $800 an hour to create a problem. How you represent your qualifications to the public can itself matter.

> And the statute doesn’t say, “Unless you remembered to use ‘lawyer’ instead of ‘attorney.’”

> The question is what you are communicating about your authority to practice law. A different noun doesn’t automatically fix that.

> Which brings us to “general counsel.”

> That’s a particularly difficult title to square with the explanation.

> When an organization introduces its general counsel, people generally understand that to mean the person responsible for its legal affairs.

> Nobody thinks, “Ah yes, their designated law school graduate.”

> A watchdog group has now filed a State Bar complaint. A complaint is an allegation, not a finding, and whether her specific conduct violated the law requires more than watching a clip.

> But the broader lesson is pretty simple:

> A J.D. is a real accomplishment. So is working internationally. Neither needs to be inflated into a license you don’t hold.

All she had to say was “I graduated from law school and worked at a firm in China, BUT I'M NOT LICENSED TO PRACTICE."

Why lie? Geez.

[Merrybelle Hodges @MerrybelleH]

@smalltownug Withdraw consent and stop funding the criminals.

[small town underground @smalltownug]

This is why taxes are a lie, and always have been. We could have more than enough money to fund government, fund necessities, and build infrastructure, but no. We money launder. We squander. And even with all of these 'NGO'S', we still don't have enough money. Right?

You see, we were supposed to take the DOGE program all the way, and completely kill the fraud, waste, and abuse. But we didn't, and the clown show continues.

This is some cold, hard facts. This is why I get so upset about taxes. Any they say it can't be done. Yeah right. Really think about this post. How much miney is funneled away from you, and funneled into the pockets of so many people that want you to fail. The tragedy is that we do not have representation that has the guts to change the system, so they continue capitulation, and re arranging the tax on you within the bounds of a corrupt system. It's so much easier and it feels so good, but it never changes.

Meanwhile, the NGO'S get richer, and each year you pay them more. The never ending cycle.

Tis' a tragedy indeed.

[DKelly 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

When someone asks why I still care so deeply about where our country is headed my answer is simple:

Grandchildren.

[Curious Crimson @curiouscrimson1]

@FSociety_1942 That is crazy talk. It has never ended. The republicans have done jack 💩 to correct and hold traitors accountable.

Because they benefit

[theGAnerds @theGAnerds_Real]

I think these are GA voters…..

Zombies…..

[Gianna Miceli 🇺🇸 IRS Free Since 1999 @LegalFockery]

James Otis stood up in a Boston courtroom in 1761 and argued against general search warrants.

John Adams was in the room and said that was the day the child Independence was born.

The principle Otis fought for became the Fourth Amendment.
Your person, your house, your papers, your effects.

Secure. Not searchable on a whim, not seizable on a hunch.
The castle doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours.

[WULF @DerWulf]

Child sacrifice became abortion.
Idolatry became celebrity worship
Adultery became casual sex.
Witchcraft became manifestation and psychics.
The practices didn't disappear.
We just gave them modern names.

[All4Freedom🇺🇲🐸🍿 @skillz17q]

The less you know, the easier you are to control.

An informed population is dangerous to those who depend on its ignorance.

[Jarrin Jackson 👑📖🇺🇸 @JarrinJackson]

The text of the constitutions is the law.

If an office, like “attorney general”, is not written in the text, then the office is not in the constitution.

Very simple.

That means that something inferior to the constitution (statute) created the office.

Be wary of this, bc any grant of authority must come from the constitution’s text - and many offices are created to do & sustain uses of authority that have no general grant of power.

When America was founded, People prosecuted their own actions - public and private wrongs.

Attorneys today don’t know the law & so they hold to bad knowledge & a degraded view of the constitution. Their thinking doesn’t begin with the text of constitutions nor fundamental principles.

The easiest way to expose it is to ask where the text of whatever they say is in the constitution.

Plainly speaking, “attorney general” is not written in the US Constitution, which means that office is not a constitutional office in government’s frame.

Those with ears for fundamental law, let them hear.

[Plumbline Faith @PlumblineFaith]

Many “go to church” for a directed Sunday “service” performed by the “anointed” few in an odd building where they:

- Sit as spectators in regimented rows;

- Listen to a monopolizing monologue “sermon” by the “Lead Pastor;” and

- Are entertained by a staged “worship” performance.

Some, however, “are the church” as they unassumingly gather in homes and other hospitable places where life naturally happens to participate together through:

- Shared teachings with open dialogue and discussion;

- Singing God’s praises together from among and within the congregation as they encourage each other; and

- Each and every one actively ministering “one to another” out of the different gifts God distributes among them – including diverse elders – as a functional community.

Which “church,” do you think, looks more like what the New Testament actually commands?