But in this case, that's a legal Catch 22. Obama's cousin, reportedly his first cousin, son of Obama's father's sister, is the prime minister of Kenya. A position he acquired after turning his thugs loose to burn, loot and pillage upon losing an election for President. An election where Obama made visits to Kenya in support of Cuz Odinga.
Yea the Kenyan authorities are going to be real cooperative, NOT! A reasonable judge would look for alternatives to prove or disprove the authenticity of the document.
In point of fact, Cosimo de Medici was quoting something that I had said up-thread.
A reasonable judge would follow the law. The law in this instance is quite specific as to the legal standards that must be met with respect to proving an official foreign record, and to the litigant to whom that burden falls. If you want to the judge to ignore those standards in order to to reach a conclusion you would find more palatable, isn't that "crafting law from the bench" and completely antithetical to conservatives ideals of American jurisprudence?
Contrary to popular opinion, every judge that has ruled in these cases (with some of them being Republican appointees to the bench) has followed the law, to the letter - including the judge in this case.