Obama Not Licensed Lawyer Anymore

When you are a U.S. Senator, you can’t have outside income unless you write a book.

So, I guess it should not be much of a surprise that Barack Obama has let his Illinois law license lapse sometime this year.

But he didn’t decide to stop paying the licensing fee until this year, however, according to records readily available at the Attorney’s Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

And you may be surprised where I learned this information.

It was an email from Andy Martin, the only announced candidate for the Republican nomination to run against Dick Durbin for the U.S. Senate next year.

He included the tid-bit, almost as a throwaway at the bottom of a press release about having filed a formal complaint against Obama with

the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar, and Attorney and Attorney Registration Commission, asking for an investigation concerning whether Senator Barack Obama obtained bar admission based on false representations.

The basis for his complaint are the 17 parking tickets Obama just paid from his college days.

Notice: I have had parking ticket problems, too.

Martin writes,

Illinois agencies require that any outstanding parking tickets be paid prior to bar admission. It does not appear based on the available circumstantial evidence that Obama answered his bar admission questionnaire truthfully.

"V-e-r-y interesting," as they would say on Laugh-in.

His wife Michele, also an attorney, relinquished her Illinois license in 1993.

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