“FREE THE LONG FORM!”
I know. Paragraphs are our friend.
I should have fixed that before I posted.
I am open minded on this issue, leaning towards 'the birthers do have a case.' However it is quite surprising to me, a non legal person, how every case is dismissed out of hand on a legal technicality. No ruling is ever made on the merits.
The 180 degree about face by this judge just confirms my suspicion that the fix is in and this contention is doomed to fail. Every branch of government has been compromised, and the legal branch must have a gun to its head:
Never a ruling
Never an opinion
Never Discovery
Every case cut off at the pass. But rest easy, we are a Nation of Laws. /sarc
I thought Orly and Defend Our Freedoms Foundation parted company with each other a while back?
No, as Carter pointed out yesterday, she never properly served Obama as an individual in THIS CASE. She piddled and diddled, and wound up dropping the documents off someplace in DC on January 20 at 3 pm -- after he'd been sworn in as POTUS -- and even then she didn't accomplish proper service, as evidenced seven months later, when Carter had to demand that she serve the U.S. Attorneys, at that moment, in the California courthouse, so that the case could at least go forward to this point.
So she whines and complains about the US Attorney, rather than a private attorney, representing Obama, when it's her own damn fault for not following the rules.
Based on this it's not clear if Orly was listening to the judge on the 13th...or those little voices in her head.
I haven’t had the chance to read the actual transcript and am still going on several people’s notes, but thought this worth sharing as a factual point:
Judge Carter is factually incorrect on this point:
BARNETT V OBAMA HEARING
OCTOBER 5, 2009
WAVEYDAVEY REPORT
Page 16
17 THE COURT: He was already sworn in before
18 this case ever got to my desk. You had a lack of
19 diligence. Why wait until that last day?
20 I’m going to make a finding that the opportunity
21 was lost for the Electoral College to address it. Why
22 did you wait until the last day, and until 3:00 p.m. at
23 that?
http://www.scribd.com/full/20658448?access_key=key-1t4r9c2ay6ocrb0pdv8e
Barack Obama was “sworn in” the next day, in private, at 7:35 p.m.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103685.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8PEkkW.8rx0
Obviously, the public “swearing in” on January 20 was insufficient, or the second “swearing in” on the night of January 21 would not have taken place.
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