Malihi is considering whether to hit Obama with contempt of court for refusing to honor the order to appear with documents in hand.
I hope Obama IS charged with contempt of court - not only because he has shown the most blatant contempt I can imagine for the rule of law and the entire judicial system, but because that charge highlights the most glaring question of all:
If Obama’s lawyers let Savannah Guthrie feel the seal on a genuinely-certified birth certificate, then why didn’t Obama and/or his lawyer just submit that certificate to Judge Malihi? If it was a genuine, legally-certified birth certificate Obama’s lawyers could have argued that it is prima facie evidence and Full Faith and Credit means it has to be honored as legally probative. It would have blown away Orly’s whole argument. Why didn’t they do it?
The person who could have introduced the certificate and been cross-examined about the chain of custody was the person who picked up the certificate from the HDOH. That person can’t claim that (my paraphrase) “being President is too hectic for me to manage to honor an order to appear” (when in fact Obama was campaigning instead of showing up to court). Why didn’t that person appear? Heck, why didn’t Obama’s lawyer even appear? Obama is willing to spend a LOT of money to deal with these lawsuits but didn’t even send a lawyer who could have given the coup de grace’ in a single blow?
If Obama has a genuinely-certified birth certificate that he showed Savannah Guthrie, then his refusal to submit it when the law in GA required him to do so is beyond incompetent. It is criminal - and contempt of court charges would simply make that fact a matter of public record.
Well said!!
No lawyers are not going to ruin their reputation and possibly loose their law license by placing a document as evidence they know is forged.
It’s their livelihood.