Georgia Judge Orders President Obama To Appear In Court To Defend Citizenship
And the birthers just refuse to go away. Ever since President Obama embarrassed the hell out of birther king Donald Trump by releasing his long form birth certificate, birthers have been desperate to keep their claims alive and have filed lawsuits across the country to have the President removed from the ballot in 2012. All of these filings have failed, that is until now.
A judge in Atlanta, Georgia has ordered President Obama to show up at a hearing concerning a complaint filed by a citizen of the state who contends that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born citizen and therefore should be removed from the ballot in the Georgia Presidential primary.
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On Friday, Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi denied a motion for dismissal of a subpoena that requires the President to attend. The hearing is set for Thursday.
This is clearly a frivolous lawsuit brought by a racist fool who happened to find an equally racist judge. The President was born in Hawaii and he has released his short form and long from birth certificates. President Obama has better things to do than appear before a hack judge in the hack state of Georgia, like finding and killing terrorists and fixing the economy. That being said, President Obama should appear, bring his birth certificates and any other documentation he can find, win the case, and then sue the person who filed this lawsuit. This racist hick should be forced to pay all the legal fees, attorney’s fees, and should be forced to repay the taxpayers all the money it takes for the President to fly on Air Force One with a security detail to Georgia, not to mention all of the security precautions necessary to protect the President en route to the courthouse and inside the courtroom. That’s going to cost a LOT. And if this moron refuses to pay up, the IRS should garnish his wages and seize his belongings, property, etc. That’s the only way to deter other racist birthers from continuing to file lawsuits. More on this story as it develops.
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No, there’s nothing that could drop me to the level of the birthers, particulary in S. Carolina or Georgia.
This is by far the most idiotic attempt thus far to harass our President with such an unfounded, frivolous lawsuit . . I am amazed at any judge that would even entertain such an idea, let alone attempt to carry it out. If I was Eric Holder, I would file a countersuit against the misguided individual who filed this lawsuit and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law to discourage other equally misguided people from trying it themselves. This person is interfering with the President’s national responsibilities and duties.
I am looking forward to this, actually. I predict Obama will not be forced to appear and the judge will get his ears pinned back. I cannot find the complaint online but I think the judge can only rule on Obama’s citizenship status, not his elibility for office. And since his citizenship status harms nobody the plaintiff has no standing. The state of Hawaii has already validated his citizenship. So this judge is assuming he can nullify that judgement. He would have to subpoena the state legislature, governor and probbaly the state Supreme Court as well. And that is not in his power to do.
This very intelligent, hard working and caring young man is trying very hard to right some of the wrongs in our country. It is a fact that he was handed a total chaos of war and economical robbery by Wall Street and many others. Our industry had been sold out to China, Indonesia, and anywhere child labor is allowed. He has faced down the opposing party who has openly made it their intent to destroy his Presidency. An unlimited supply of corporate cash is available to fuel those who will engage in the black arts of politics. Their aim to make it impossible for him to govern, guide the country out of the recession and bring us into the new age of technology. It scares me to think what would happen if we should find ourselves saluting an ego driven, ignorant and angry politician.’The rest of the world already thinks Americans are nuts.
And your alternative is better? How about racist Ron Paul,or department store mannequin and serial flipflopper Mitt Romney, or serial adulterer and vain prig Newt (salamander) Gingrich or Rick (Sanctimonious) Santorum, the “true conservative”? A “No vote” helps put one of them in office!
I want to see this Georgia’s judge birth certificate to make sure it’s real. Then I want to see his grades from college because he might have forged these grades, maybe this judge never really attended college. Then I want to see the Judge’s Bar exam to make sure it’s real. I’m not sure this judge is qualified to be a judge!
You are one of the many that are the exact reason America is the way it is today and why many of us living outside of America shake our heads. Your media brainwashes you so horribly into believing what you just stated. I only hope many of you have a chance to take a step back before votes are cast to see what really is going on. I fear what will become of the states if Republicans are voted back in. I do try to defend Americans because I don’t believe in labeling, but people like you make it hard. Obama has such a mess to clean up from two terms of Bush (how did you guys manage to vote him back in), I don’t think anyone would be able to clean things up in just a term even two. Take a step back and see what is really going on please.
The mind boggling stupidity of southern Republicans is a never ending source of horror and amazement.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could actually limit stupid repuglicans to the south!
Since PRESIDENT Obama was born to an American mother who had lived 7 of her previous 14 years within the United States, he could have been born on frelling MARS and still be a natural-born American citizen. This racist birther crap is exactly that: RACIST CRAP. This judge should tread very, very carefully. I don’t expect him to. I actually, depressingly, expect him to use racist epithets to refer to the man whom he should be calling Mr. President.
I expect, however, that Eric Holder will inform this judge that malicious prosecution is a criminal offense, and that this lawsuit is utterly without merit. The President has put up with more abuse from both his enemies (expected) and his supposed supporters than any President in history.
It doesn’t matter if the President was born on MARS. His mother was an American citizen. He is a natural born American citizen who has all the rights and privileges conferred thereunto, INCLUDING election to the highest office in the country.
And he deserves FAR more respect than many people have deigned to give him.
Thank you for this comment. It drives me crazy that people do not realize that a child of an American citizen (who has lived the requisite number of years in the US) is automatically an American citizen, no matter where they are born. My children were born in Europe and are 100% NATURAL BORN AMERICANS because I, their mother, am an American citizen who lived the first 25 years of my life in the US. Even the TV show 30 Rock had this wrong the other night, with the Alec Baldwin character and his girlfriend panicking because she was going into labor while they were in Canada and thought that meant their baby would not be American. PLEASE PEOPLE, educate yourselves, don’t be idiots!
I guess you had better stick to your day job. You will never make it as a lawyer with your knowledge of the law. If Obama wasn’t actually born on US soil, Stanley Dunham hadn’t reached the age of 18 and according to the law at the time couldn’t grant the right to citizenship merely by giving birth.
If you are certain of the ‘natural born’ clause, which court has confirmed you position? There hasn’t been one.
The rampant ignorance is mindboggling. What on earth does President Obama’s maternal frandfather, Stanley Dunham, have to do with Obama’s citizenship?!? This is the law, quoted from Wikipedia–this is only one of the several criteria that fit President Obama:
One of the person’s parents was a U.S. citizen when the person was born.
While the President is not above the law and is subject to court order just like everyone else, the law is clear that a birth certificate certified by the issuing state is conclusive proof of a person’s birthdate and place. The Georgia court’s decision compelling the President to appear will certainly be overturned on appeal if he doesn’t show up, and the appeals court will order this silly case dismissed.
Wow. Screw Obama . Is that all you’ve got? It is people like you that will get us all SCREWED in November. Obama 2012 or be prepared to suffer immensely. And by the way, my spellcheck does recognize the name Obama.
NewAmericaNow: Or if the Republicans hadn’t elected him and Cheney to a second term. And if you hadn’t noticed, the President doesn’t pass legislation, Congress does, so he has no power to let the public comment before votes, Congress does. Obviously the Republicans don’t want public comment on the legislation they are trying to pass.
The people at the banks responsible for the financial mess probably can’t be prosecuted, there aren’t any laws they broke. Beginning with the Regan years, the financial industry was de-regulated by Gov’t, since the prevailing “wisdom” was that they could better regulate themselves. Somehow. This de-regulation reached it’s peak in the Shrub years. Why weren’t you protesting then?
The Democrats did pass strict regulation before the Reps. took control of the House, every Republican candidate vows to repeal that regulation because it’s “strangling the banking industry”. Of course, they’re being paid to say that, by the banking industry.
Do you see a stream of lobbyists in the White House? No. Do you see a stream of lobbyists in the Congress? Yes. Why aren’t you protesting the lobbyists influence on Congress?
Have you seen any malfeasance from the finance executives he appointed to his staff? You have to have people who are intimately familiar with the finance industry, you or I would be worse than helpless.
Your spell check doesn’t recognize him because you’ve never used the name before, at least correctly spelled.
Is it even possible for a very small court to put the POTUS on trial? If so, I wish it had been done to baby Bush.
THis is the silliest waste of time and money. I’m wondering what made the republican party go so insane. Their hatred seems to know no bounds. Even John Dean (a republican higher up) feels like his party got hijacked.
I am so mad that we have such immoral people in the house and senate. I know a lot of this goes back at least as far as Reagan. THis year they became brazen about it.
From my IANAL perspective, it appears that there’s no authority in an administrative judgeship in Georgia (which this is) to subpoena the President. This is a racist power play, pure and simple, and the President would do well not to respond in any way.
This is what happens when weak sperm are allowed to connect. I’d say more but I’m trying to be somewhat decent here.
Are Southerners stupid because they’re ugly? Or are they ugly because they’re stupid?
I ain’t ugly and I ain’t stupid. But I am the member of a minority group. I am in the 10 percent of white males who voted for President Obama.
Above should read “10 percent of white males in Alabama..”
Yes.
Stereotyping like this drops you to the same level as the birthers. Beauty has nothing to do with geographic residence. And apparently neither does intelligence.
Shut the fuck up, you hatemongering Paulite cultist.
NewAmericaNow – Remember how Government structure works. The only tool the President actually has is the veto and the executive order.
Yet I read about how Obama has spent all this money. False. Congress did. How Obama wrote NDAA. False – Congress did. Patriot Act? Congress. And why did the Patriot Act and NDAA get passed? Because Congress made sure to tie the funding of the military (an absolute necessity) to these rights violations. If Obama vetos it they chastise him for not funding the military and putting America in danger. If he doesn’t he’s chastised for giving away our rights. Congress is the direct reason why the economy is stuck in neutral, the reason why jobs are not being created and the reason we’re seeing laws passed allowing us to eat horse meat, not eat fetuses and attempting to force creationism in the schools -but not a single bill to help anyone but the wealthy. Obama has kept the economy from collapsing, saved the auto industry, jobs are being created, stock market stabilized, ending of two wars. He accomplished this with the GOP blocking every single thing he’s tried to do and he still managed to make things better.
We would have our hope and change had the GOP not blocked it. I don’t agree with everything he does – NDAA, Patriot Act and Bush Tax cuts extension – but it’s a far cry from the 8 year downhill slope Bush and the GOP had us on.