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Judge tosses out Army captain's complaint questioning president's birth
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA) ^ | Sept 16, 2009 | ALAN RIQUELMY

Posted on 09/16/2009 3:45:24 PM PDT by Hawk720

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land tossed out on Wednesday a complaint by an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama.

Land also put attorney Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the national “birther” movement, on notice by stating that she could face sanctions if she ever again files in his court a similar “frivolous” lawsuit — a document that at one point the judge states that a middle school student could find irony in.

“(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States,” Land states in his order. “Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is ‘an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.’”

Judge Land's court ruling Rhodes, who filed her complaint Sept. 4 in the Columbus Division of U.S. District Court, argued that some facts point to Obama not being naturalized or possibly an illegal immigrant.

“This plaintiff cannot in good conscience obey orders originating from a chain of command from this merely de facto president,” Rhodes’ complaint states. “This plaintiff cannot be lawfully compelled to obey this de facto president’s orders.”

In his order, Land states in a footnote that Obama defeated seven opponents in a “grueling” primary campaign that cost the contenders more than $300 million. Obama then moved on to the general election, where he faced Sen. John McCain, who Land states got $84 million to wage his campaign.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; orlytaitz
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1 posted on 09/16/2009 3:45:24 PM PDT by Hawk720
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To: Hawk720

Somebody buy that judge a bib.


2 posted on 09/16/2009 3:48:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Hawk720
"plaintiff unashamedly alleges that defendant has the burden to prove his ‘natural born’ status,”"

Uh, try coming into the US and telling the customs agents that the burden of proof is on them to show that you are not a citizen.

3 posted on 09/16/2009 3:49:25 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Hawk720

Bought and paid for....according to the judge.


4 posted on 09/16/2009 3:49:27 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: Hawk720; All

“Finally, in a remarkable shifting of the traditional legal burden of proof, plaintiff unashamedly alleges that defendant has the burden to prove his ‘natural born’ status,” Land states. “Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our country was founded in order to purportedly ‘protect and preserve’ those very principles.

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I guess the judge has never heard of a writ quo warranto ...

AS ANY FIRST-YEAR LAW STUDENT HAS ...


5 posted on 09/16/2009 3:55:00 PM PDT by Lmo56
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To: Hawk720

History rewards those that are right. Joan of Arc, for instance, was canonized by a religion that previously burned her at the stake.


6 posted on 09/16/2009 4:01:11 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: Lmo56
I guess the judge has never heard of a writ quo warranto ... AS ANY FIRST-YEAR LAW STUDENT HAS ...

No writ of quo warranto was sought in this case, and the plaintiff was not someone entitled by statute to seek one.

7 posted on 09/16/2009 4:01:48 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Bushbacker1
Bought and paid for....according to the judge.

He won. Get over it.

*sigh*

8 posted on 09/16/2009 4:03:44 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 238 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Hawk720
In his order, Land states in a footnote that Obama defeated seven opponents in a “grueling” primary campaign that cost the contenders more than $300 million. Obama then moved on to the general election, where he faced Sen. John McCain, who Land states got $84 million to wage his campaign.

So, he reprimands counsel for her political rhetoric and then winds up his notes with some empty political rhetoric!?!

9 posted on 09/16/2009 4:08:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Hawk720

He’s our President and we all will reap the pain he inflicts upon us


10 posted on 09/16/2009 4:10:28 PM PDT by woofie
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To: TigersEye
So, he reprimands counsel for her political rhetoric and then winds up his notes with some empty political rhetoric!?!

No, in context he uses those figures to argue that if there were any doubt about Obama's eligibility, it could have been brought up during the election.

11 posted on 09/16/2009 4:10:33 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Hawk720
Moreover, as though the “general opinion in the rest of the world” were not enough, Plaintiff alleges in her Complaint that according to an “AOL poll 85% of Americans believe that Obama was not vetted, needs to be vetted and his vital records need to be produced.”

Please, please tell me Orly did not quote an AOL poll as evidence of her claims.

12 posted on 09/16/2009 4:12:54 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Lurking Libertarian

This is exactly the same thing as happened with Mr. Hemenway in the Second Circuit. The same charge of “frivolous”, the same warning about sanctions. Well, Mr. Hemenway did the judge one good by pointing out that if he was sanctioned then he was entitled to see the document for exoneration. The judge backed off.

But now, it looks like Capt. Cook is forced to face court martial to get the document released. Tough call.


13 posted on 09/16/2009 4:15:39 PM PDT by bioqubit
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To: cripplecreek

obamas lawyers were there yesterday


14 posted on 09/16/2009 4:20:42 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Lurking Libertarian
the plaintiff was not someone entitled by statute to seek one.

Who is?

15 posted on 09/16/2009 4:20:56 PM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: Hawk720

What does the cost of the campaign have to do with anything? This judge is doing anything he can to make a point of ridiculing the political nature of the case... and in doing so, he is showing his own political bias.


16 posted on 09/16/2009 4:22:26 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: Hawk720

why is the judge makeing a pro abama statement in this ruling?


17 posted on 09/16/2009 4:22:39 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: dalebert

Did they offer the judge a job?


18 posted on 09/16/2009 4:27:51 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Idiotcracy has arrived 400 years early.)
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To: depressed in 06

looks like


19 posted on 09/16/2009 4:30:26 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Lurking Libertarian

It is the same kind of empty political rhetoric. It is meaningless and non-sequitur.


20 posted on 09/16/2009 4:37:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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