[El Gato]

And at the bottom of the article, it turns out that CPT Rhodes was at the hearing as the judge had ordered on Friday:

This is a surprise? Of course she was. The Army, through their attorney Major Ausprung, promised the judge that the Captain would be there.

The judge would not have taken kindly to the the Army's attorney if the Captain had been held in Kansas.

“Who has the burden of establishing that the president of the United States is not eligible to serve in his office?” Land asked Taitz. P> The judge pointed out that burden fell on Rhodes because she sought the restraining order to stop her deployment.<

But that does not mean that Rhodes has to supply all the proof on her, and her attorney's own hook. The easiest way for them to prove that would be to suponea the original Birth records, all of them, from Hawaii. Getting proof of documents from Kenya via normal diplomatic channels, when Obama's cousin Odinga, who Obama advised and campaigned forduring the most recent Kenyan election, is Prime Minister is more than just a bit problematic. Odinga's idea of the "rule of law" is to set his thugs loose to beat, burn and pillage when he lost the election for President of Kenya.

Odinga supporters after the election

O & O before the election

Photo above may have been taken on one of Obama's other trips to Kenya, not immediately preceeding the election.

[normanpubbie]

Captain Rhodes applied for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent being shipped overseas. This is not a trial. Rhodes and Taitz have been allowed to present their own exhibits but they have not been granted the power to subpoena the other side's evidence.

They could petition the judge to grant them subpoena power (which would have been a better path to take), but it has not been granted so far. So they are not entitled to compel any evidence from Obama, including a birth certificate.