Irion introduced the COLB and the long-form birth certificate, and stipulated that they were authentic, proof that Obama was born in Hawaii.
When one party stipulates to certain “facts,” the judge considers them as fact agreed upon.
I don’t understand how you see that as my being disingenuous.
There’s nothing in the transcripts to support this claim.
The only thing Irion stipulated in court was that Obama had a Kenyan citizen father. Irion gave the judge an out by introducing that forged Obama birth certificate. Irion never claimed that the document was genuine but only purported to be by Obama and his flying donkeys.
This judge, himself, in a previous ruling stated that the burden of proof is on the candidate. The candidate supplied NOTHING. No evidence whatsoever.
A stipulation for sake of argument is not proof. The judge might have said that he rejected Irion’s argument about Minor, concluding that if a candidate was born in the USA to at least one U.S. citizen, then that candidate would be a natural born citizen. However, he should then have gone on to state that candidate Obama did not meet his burden of proof that he was born in the USA to even one US citizen, because he offered no evidence at all.