Flordia [Law.com]- The Florida Supreme Court is threatening Coral Gables attorney Jack Thompson with sanctions for frivolous and insulting filings in his disciplinary case.

The attorney who has made a name for himself crusading against pornography was warned about his filings last April after he submitted “pornographic materials” to the court, the show-cause order said.

The Florida Supreme Court issued the order last Tuesday telling Thompson to explain why it shouldn’t reject future court filings from him unless they are signed by another Florida Bar member.

Thompson responded with three court filings by Thursday afternoon, according to the Supreme Court’s online docket. The court warned him twice last year to stop filing motions with the court in his disciplinary case assigned to Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dava Tunis.

“I have a right to file anything I want with the court,” Thompson told the Daily Business Review on Wednesday. “It is beyond bizarre that they think they can tell me I can’t seek relief. They can deny relief, but they can’t tell me I can’t seek relief.”

He submitted what he called a preliminary response to the court, saying the order “wildly infringes” on his constitutional rights and was “a brazen attempt” to repeal the First Amendment right to petition the government to redress grievances. Thompson said he hasn’t filed anything with the court that could be considered pornographic since last April, but he acknowledges filing other documents.

Thompson has abused the processes of the court with “constant abusive” and “numerous meritless filings,” the three-page show-cause order said. “This court is now forced to limit Mr. Thompson’s ability to monopolize this court’s time,” the Supreme Court order said, citing restrictions on court filings in two other cases.

Thompson filed more than 46 items with the court that have been forwarded to Tunis, dismissed or denied, the court said. The latest have been “repetitive, frivolous and insult the integrity of the court.”

The court described one of Thompson’s recent filings in detail. He dubbed it a “children’s picture book for adults,” interspersing images with text in his motion due to “the court’s inability to comprehend” his arguments. Images included “swastikas, kangaroos in court, a reproduced dollar bill, cartoon squirrels, Paul Simon, Paul Newman, Ray Charles, a handprint with the word ‘slap’ written under it, Bar Governor Benedict P. Kuehne, a baby, Ed Bradley, Jack Nicholson, Justice Clarence Thomas, Julius Caesar, monkeys, a house of cards,” the order said.

The Bar complaint against Thompson was based on the complaints of several judges and lawyers over his pointed e-mails, letters, faxes, news releases and court documents about them. Thompson claims his communications are covered by the First Amendment and claims the Bar and others are conspiring to get him disbarred.

Thompson said he plans to file a federal lawsuit against the Bar and the Florida Supreme Court in response to the show-cause order. He had previously sued the Bar, alleging its disciplinary action against him was an attempt to strip him of his right to free speech and boot him from the legal profession. U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami dismissed the complaint, ruling that the state court system is the appropriate place for Thompson to seek any remedy.

The disciplinary proceedings against Thompson were conducted in November, and Tunis has until April 21 to submit her recommendations to the Supreme Court. Thompson has since sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, where he refers to the show-cause order as a criminal act done in retaliation for his seeking relief with the court.