Welllll, if the college documents say he was on a foreign scholarship he has a lot of explaining to do.
Then his explanation might be what is theorized that he used his dads citizenship to abuse the system. I was American but we needed the scholarship. We were poor, my mom could not afford much.
or it may be true he was foreign.
Either way it is relevant.
Maybe I don’t know what Orly is trying to prove.
The question is whether Obama meets the eligibility requirements of the Constitution. It’s not an action against Obama in tort, right?
The problem I have with the birthers is not the fundamental question of Obama’s eligibility. I find that somewhat interesting in an angel on the head of the pins type of way. It’s a part of the Constitution that has simply never ajudicated. So, I would find it intriguing in the same way I would find a case based on privileges and immunities intriguing.
The problem I have is that birthers - and their attorney - don’t seem to know how to approach this question. Orly is trying to turn this into some kind of weird quasi-criminal suit.
Perhaps, but none of it is relevant to his eligibility, and that's the subject of this lawsuit.
A judge can't order discovery for something just because it would be good to know. It has to have some direct relevance to the lawsuit in question, and that lawsuit is about eligibility.
Also, I've found the birther claim that he was on a foreign scholarship to be rather bizarre. The vast majority of scholarships and other college financial aid packages are available only to US citizens and permanent residents.
Now maybe there was a scholarship avaialble only to Indonesian citizens when he was in college, but I doubt it. I have yet to see a birther produce any evidence that there was one.