Tamah Jada Clark won't apologize to Judge Willis B. Hunt, the man she attacked in a scathing and profanity-laced nine-page court notice that went viral after its release last week, until he apologizes to her.
"What I know to be true is a lot of people have been mistreated at the hands of different judges and when they're ready to apologize ... then I'll be ready to consider apologizing to [Hunt]," Clark told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution by phone Tuesday night.
Clark's court notice, which has an NSFW title and includes at least two dozen profanities and bolded lines such as "I AM Justice," was filed on April 20, after Clark learned that Hunt was dismissing the majority of her claims in a federal suit first filed on July 3, 2014, by her and her husband, Jason.
The suit in the U.S. District Court's Northern District of Georgia was for $10 billion, according to NBC News, and named as defendants every single U.S. citizen in Georgia and, specifically, Gov. Nathan Deal and Gwinnett County, among others.
Among other allegations it contested both Jason's arrest in September 2009 and Clark's September 2010 arrest, when police accused her of plotting to break her husband out of the Pelham City Jail.
Speaking to the AJC Tuesday, Clark alleged that in 2010 she was held for several days before being charged, was never read her Miranda rights and was denied access to the phone. She said her charges were later dropped, but the AJC was unable to immediately verify this claim.
Clark argued in the suit, in opening, that she and her husband are Floridian-Americans and not citizens of the United States. She argued that their subsequent arrests were instead illegal abductions and described various police officials as military forces.
What happened, Clark said, was that she was winning her suit and Hunt's March 31 dismissal came as a surprise — especially because, she said, he said the plaintiffs hadn't raised any objection to the defendants' dismissal motion.
Objections were vehemently raised, she said. She provided the AJC with several court documents, including her response to the dismissal motion, dated Sept. 19, 2014.
According to the Washington Post, Hunt dismissed her claims in part because her husband had not actually signed the complaint; because the statute of limitations for such a complaint had expired; and because she did not have sufficient standing to bring the complaint on behalf of her husband or child.
Clark alleges that Hunt directed court clerks to stop sending communications to her last year; and that the official court record has been altered against her.
"And then of course he tried to write me off as nonsensical. And that's what really set me off because that's an outright lie," she said
Reached in his chambers Wednesday morning, Hunt declined to comment on the notice specifically. But he said that he has recused himself from Clark's other pending matters before the court, and thinks an additional judge's perspective on its merits will be best.
Clark said she wrote the notice while incensed, and acknowledged that it was spur of the moment — a way, she said, to call out Hunt's "foolishness." But she's "not sorry" about her tone or language.
She added that she has received a lot of positive response; and the work now will be to help achieve justice for those that have been mistreated by the system, she said, as she once was.
"Point blank, there are things about this society that need to change," she said.
"While I do plan to explain the 'law-based truth' that has been uncovered, to the American People in great detail, it is exceptionally complex and will require both a considerable amount of time and resources," she said in a statement on her website. "Please be patient with me."
Clark said she came to her conclusions about the law, the government and American history after a lot of studying, much of it precipitated by what she says was her illegal arrest in 2010.
She knows some people think she sounds crazy.
"But guess what? I cursed that judge out and I'm still here," she said. "So maybe I'm not so crazy."
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