Posted on 09/10/2009 10:09:55 AM PDT by jessduntno
Judge sets court date in 'birther' case filed by Wiley Drake
Thursday, September 10, 2009 BUENA PARK, Calif. (ABP) -- The so-called "Birthers" claimed a small victory Sept. 8 when a federal judge set a tentative trial date of Jan. 26, 2010, for a lawsuit claiming that President Obama is constitutionally ineligible for his office.
"We won again," Wiley Drake, a former second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said of the ruling by federal judge David Carter. Drake is one of several plaintiffs in the lawsuit alleging that Obama cannot hold his office because he does not meet the constitutional requirement that the president be a "natural-born" citizen.
Carter, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, denied a request by plaintiffs to remove a judge who ruled against them in a motion Aug. 6. He vacated one of the lower court's orders, however -- a voluntary dismissal that Drake and another plaintiff said their former lawyer filed without their permission.
Originally Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., and fellow plaintiff Markham Robinson hired Orly Taitz, a lawyer, dentist and real estate agent who has filed several suits alleging that Obama is not a natural-born citizen, as their legal counsel.
Taitz has become something of a mini-celebrity in recent months, appearing on cable-television news shows to defend her charge that Obama was actually born in Kenya. She has produced a succession of documents, alleging each time that it is Obama's actual Kenyan birth certificate. Their authenticity has been widely discredited.
Independent journalists and fact-checking groups have examined it and affirmed that it appears authentic. Hawaiian state officials -- including the state's Republican governor -- have also indicated that the document is official.
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There is now several active cases I think. And a bunch dismissed.
Where can one find a listing of all these cases and their current status?
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