“The court didn’t tell the DoH to do anything and certainly isn’t telling them to explain birth records at the upcoming hearing.”
Ah. So, a motion to compel them to produce said records, against which I would think they would argue, has absolutely nothing to do with explaining those records.
Not with explaining why they shouldn’t be ordered to produce them, nor with demonstrating that the “birthers” are nutty by producing the documents, nor with explaining why they can’t produce them if they are ordered to...
No connection to any of those things.
Got it.
You simply don’t get it. The purpose of the hearing is for Orly to demonstrate why she’s entitled to the documents not for the DoH to demonstrate why she isn’t entitled to them. There is no legal assumption that she is entitled to them. Orly has to prove her case. (She can’t.) The DoH doesn’t have to prove anything.