FALSE__Michelle Obama was disbarred/forced to give up her license to practice law in 1993
The short form of this conspiracy is that Michelle Obama either was disbarred by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1993, or that she voluntarily gave up her license to practice law before she could be disbarred for an ethics violation.
This is not true. According to snopes.com, Michelle Obama did not voluntarily surrender her law license. The First Lady requested that her law license be placed on inactive status. At the time of her request, she had no disciplinary action pending or otherwise against her
FALSE NO. 2.it (dear reader, writer of the sentence is talking about President Obama) was be disbarred or relenquish his license...which he did
Red, seriously ........your wingnut emails are ALWAYS JUNK and NOT TRUE, I would think you would have learned that by now ..
Chain email: I knew they had both lost their law license, but didn’t know why until I read this. This is legit.
I check it out at https://www.iardc.org Stands for Illinois Attorney Registration And Disciplinary Committee. It’s the official arm of lawyer discipline in Illinois; and they are very strict and mean as hell. (Talk about irony.) Even I, at the advanced age of almost 65, maintain (at the cost of approximately $600/year) my law license that I worked so hard and long to earn. Big surprise.
Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and U.S. President Makes Up Constitutional Quotes During State Of The Union (SOTU) Address. Consider this:
1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a “lawyer”. He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. A “Voluntary Surrender” is not something where you decide “Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?” and forget to renew your license. No, a “Voluntary Surrender” is something you do when you’ve been accused of something, and you ‘voluntarily surrender” your license five seconds before the state suspends you.
Q: Did Barack and Michelle Obama “surrender” their law licenses to avoid ethics charges?
A: No. A court official confirms that no public disciplinary proceeding has ever been brought against either of them, contrary to a false Internet rumor. By voluntarily inactivating their licenses, they avoid a requirement to take continuing education classes and pay hundreds of dollars in annual fees. Both could practice law again if they chose to do so.