The judge would never say that, anyway. Nearly everyone has a right to represent themselves, although she might have been implying that SovCit was not mentally competent enough to be allowed to do so.
SovCit insisted they weren't the defendant, but was their representative; judge played along and refused to let this non-defendant represent the actual defendant as they are not an attorney.
Either agree you are actually the defendant, or come back as a licensed attorney. In the mean time, the court can assume the defendant hasn't/wont appear and proceed accordingly. (default judgement, bench warrant, or whatever else is applicable to this case)
The amount of wishful thinking is honestly surprising to me, even though my expectations about these folks is already pretty low. It's just... are all of the brain cells focused on keeping them breathing?
I totally get it. Nobody wants to pay taxes, or fees, and it's getting harder for people to afford food much less car insurance, registration, emissions inspections, yadda yadda. The SovCit thing must be appealing. But, still, interpreting that situation like that? It seems like a new level of dumb.
This person was being the authorized representative of themselves. Sovcits, for a variety of reasonings, often refuse to admit that they are the legal person who is being charged. They often make a convoluted distinction between the actual person and the legal person, so they show up as the actual person to "settle the matters" of the legal person.
You can't be an authorized representative of somebody else for a crime/infraction unless you are a lawyer anywhere I know of in the U.S. A person representing is either a lawyer or self-represented. You can't just pick some rando as your champion to show up in your place. Judges have smacked Sovcits legally in various ways for this stunt.
It's interesting how sovcits have so recently and dramatically changed.
There have always been a few people who thought they could somehow carve out their own territory in the middle of the United States, or that for some reason the laws wouldn't apply to them. There have been jokes about them on the Simpsons and elsewhere.
But it was all individual. It wasn't this Q-Anon like conformity, and, while always ridiculous, not quite this delusional. This new sovcit thing is different and propaganda/single large cult fueled.