Georgia judge orders Obama to appear in court on a birther suit.

[pnwmom]

Can this be for real? Are these people that crazy?

http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/01/23/judge-orders-obama-appear-court-birther-suit

By Chuck Williams
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer staff
Mon, 01/23/2012 - 5:20pm

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- A Georgia judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta Thursday for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn't a natural-born citizen and can't be president.

Orly Taitz, the California attorney who brought the legal challenge to Obama's name on the March Georgia presidential primary ballot, says this is what she has been working for over the last three years.

"This will be 100 times bigger than Watergate," she said Saturday morning, referring to the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in 1974.

"There are high ranking judges and federal officials who are involved in this cover up. The ramifications of this trial will be enormous."

SNIP

[bluedigger]

1. Better on one than in one.

[pnwmom]

2. I don't know.

That might be interesting.

[liberal N proud]

3. For fucks sake, these idiots just don't stop!

[brewens]

4. Have the judge arrested and replace him. Oh, sorry. That's what Newt would do. n/t

[liberalhistorian]

5. Holy shit. This has GOT to be

a joke? Please tell me this is a joke and isn't real, right? Right? There's one judge that needs to be disbarred and unemployed.

[pnwmom]

6. Thats what I'm hoping, but I haven't found evidence of that yet.n/t

[pnwmom]

14. Here's more from the Atlanta paper.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/judges-order-in-birther-1313941.html

[hedgehog]

7. I read it as Obama being ordered to appear in a birther suit,

leaving me to wonder what a birther suit looks like!

[TygrBright]

8. oops.... I misread the headline as "appear in a birthday suit..."

I was gonna say, DAYUM, can I be there?

But alas, no, it's just more frenzied loonery.

disappointedly,
Bright

[pnwmom]

10. You're not the only one here who made that mistake.

[Atticus]

9. Want to contact this judge?

Contact
Valerie Ruff
Case Management Assistant
[e-mail]
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[pnwmom]

13. I generally avoid talking to looney tunes. But it's a thought. n/t

[jberryhill]

15. That would not be wise

The judge issued no such order.

He denied a motion to quash a subpoena, and that has been misinterpreted.

[Angry Dragon]

11. He should show up just as soon as bush and cheney

turn themselves in for war crimes.........

Obama now is seeing what not bringing those assholes to justice brings

[Lionessa]

17. He should show up TO charge Bush and Cheney, so they'll be ordered to show up.

But as you point out, he totally dropped that ball.

[jberryhill]

12. Yes on the crazy, no on the for real

Reporters that haven't been sufficiently Orly-proofed are prone to missing important details.

The administrative law judge in a "ballot challenge" proceeding denied a very casually-written motion to quash a subpoena which did not require Obama's presence at the hearing in the first place.

In Orlylaw, this means the judge ordered him to appear.

There will be major lulz coming out of this later in the week. Stay tuned.

[pnwmom]

16. Here's what I found in the Atlanta newspaper.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/judges-order-in-birther-1313941.html

Even though President Barack Obama has been summoned to a court hearing here Thursday, don’t expect the Commander in Chief to come.

Obama will embark on a three-day trip following his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, White House press secretary Jay Carney said during a press briefing Monday. The White House has said that Obama will be in Las Vegas, Denver and Detroit this Thursday.

In a surprising ruling Friday, a Georgia state administrative judge declined to quash a subpoena directing Obama to attend a hearing Thursday at the Fulton County courthouse on a challenge to strike him from the Georgia ballot this fall on claims he is not a U.S. citizen.

Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi issued the decision after previously declining to dismiss the case, one of dozens around the country brought by so-called “birthers.” Malihi, appointed in 1995 by Gov. Zell Miller, presides at the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings, which hears complaints against state agencies.

SNIP

[jberryhill]

18. I don't care what's in the paper

I've read every brief and the order in question in the actual case.

[pnwmom]

20. I'm impressed! nt

[jberryhill]

22. There's an entire forum for birther litigation

www.thefogbow.com

[Tx4obama]

23. You are correct. See comment #21 too :) n/t

[MiniMe]

19. I hope they try to collect the fine that the other Georgia judge assessed for bringing frivolous

lawsuits

[Tx4obama]

21. Actually the judge did NOT issue an 'order'

The judge did not squash the 'subpoena to appear' (or something like that) that the other side filed.
So, that is different than the judge issuing an order.

Please see ALL the comments by NathanaelCulver in the comments section on this link:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/20/4203280/ga-judge-orders-president-to-appear.html

Be sure to read his 'comments' on all six pages. He gives a lot of very detailed explanations regarding many points.


Below is one of his comments from page 2

The court will only be ordering Obama to appear once Taitz files, and the court grants, a motion to compel.

To establish ballot eligibility, Obama's lawyer only needs to demonstrate three things: 1) natural born citizen, 2) 35 years old, and 3) 14 years' residence. I'm sure Orly herself will stipulate the third. Obama's lawyer need only submit a certified copy of Obama's birth certificate to prima facie establish the first two, at which point burden of proof will shift back to Orly.

Note that none of this requires Obama to be present. Obama, through his lawyer, will refuse to comply with the subpoena even if it is not quashed, forcing Taitz to file a motion to compel. That motion will be denied because Orly is unable to articulate a clear legal argument for why Obama needs to be present for any of the above.

Once Jablonski drops the birth certificate on the judge's desk, it's al over for Taitz.

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Edited to fix link.

[jberryhill]

24. Correct

And Jablonski has some other options, some more amusing than others.

[Tx4obama]

25. Btw, I fixed the link in my previous comment.

Apparently the one I first posted wasn't letting the comments show.

[Bolo Boffin]

28. I love that comment section so much

I want to go buy a video camera and make a YouTube video acting out some of the exchanges.

[JohnWashburn]

30. Hope Jablonski drops the birth certificate.

Once Jablonski drops the birth certificate on the judge's desk, it's al over for Taitz.

Submitting a *certified* copy of the birth certificate into evidence would end this non-sense post haste. I just hope Jablonski does it.

[EC]

26. How would she have standing in Georgia?

She's not a citizen of the state.

[JohnWashburn]

31. She *represents* a citizen of the state

Specifically, David Farrar

[msanthrope]

27. Um. No. Really. Only Orly Taitz, and those reporters stupid enough to take legal instruction from

her think this is the process.

President Obama is not ordered to appear on Thursday.

Really.

[Jester Messiah]

29. How has Oily Taintz not yet been disbarred?

Indeed, how has she not yet been committed to a psych ward?