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Rules he was born in Hawaii and is a natural born citizen and all that good stuff:
By Bill Rankin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/judge-obama-eligible-to-1330300.html
6:22 p.m. Friday, February 3, 2012
President Barack Obamas name will remain on the Georgia primary ballot after a state law judge flatly rejected legal challenges that contend he can not be a candidate.
In a 10-page order, Judge Michael Malihi dismissed one challenge that contended Obama has a computer-generated Hawaiian birth certificate, a fraudulent Social Security number and invalid U.S. identification papers. He also turned back another that claimed the president is ineligible to be a candidate because his father was not a U.S. citizen at the time of Obama's birth.
The findings by Malihi, a judge for the State Office of Administrative Hearings, go to Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who will make the final determination. Last month, at a hearing boycotted by Obama's lawyer, Malihi considered complaints brought by members of the so-called "birther" movement.
With regard to the challenge that Obama does not have legitimate birth and identification papers, Malihi said he found the evidence "unsatisfactory" and "insufficient to support plaintiffs' allegations."
A number of the witnesses who testified about the alleged fraud were never qualified as experts in birth records, forged documents and document manipulation and "none ... provided persuasive testimony," Malihi wrote.
Addressing the other claim that contends Obama cannot be a candidate because his father was never a U.S. citizen, Malihi said he was persuaded by a 2009 ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals decision that struck down a similar challenge. In that ruling, the Indiana court found that children born within the U.S. are natural-born citizens, regardless of the citizenry of their parents.
Obama "became a citizen at birth and is a natural-born citizen," Malihi wrote. Accordingly, Obama is eligible as a candidate for the upcoming presidential primary in March, the judge said.
Even though Malihi ruled in Obama's favor, he expressed displeasure that the president's lawyer, Michael Jablonski of Atlanta, refused to attend the recent hearing.
"By deciding this matter on the merits, the court in no way condones the conduct or legal scholarship of defendant's attorney, Mr. Jablonski," Malihi wrote. "This decision is entirely based on the law, as well as the evidence and legal arguments presented at the hearing."
FReepers are NOT pleased. General hilarity for DUers tonight: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2842152/posts
brewens
(13,671 posts)onethatcares
(16,211 posts)will she be on some kind of fake news channel tonite perhaps.
Brother Buzz
(36,505 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,388 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)One group believes that he was born Hawaii but needs a father who is an American citizen to be natrually born
and
The other group believes that he was born in Kenyan.
I wonder if they ever fight it out amongst themselves.
Marnie
(844 posts)But every judicial decision that goes against the idiocy of the Birther claims became the basis for the next judgement against them.
Stick by stick they build their own coffin.
Do they realize what a farcical case they presented when they were not opposed but still lost.
gateley
(62,683 posts)They think they're smarter than the law. These people are frightening.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)They live in their little echo chamber. Their feeble minds cannot accept contrary arguments to their True Facts. Makes for great entertainment, but also susceptibility to demagogues like most GOP candidates.
gateley
(62,683 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)that famed liberal Zell Miller.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)To: Las Vegas Ron
Yep. We are F U C * E D. Screwed. The liberals may be giggling now, but they wont be when a conservative government mandates they own a gun and be forced to go hunt with it, and kill bambi. Or forces them into military service. Or mandates that protest of any form is illegal. The federal F*****g government can now tell you to do ANYTHING it damn well pleases.
The Constitution is dead.
Freedom is dead.
185 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 6:58:08 PM by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
hmmmm...sounds like Danae knows that conservatives really don't like the Constitution.
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To: iontheball
I guess we will just have to vote the POS out in Nov.
What a shame. I was was hoping we could find a way around that. Its frightening to leave this up to the American People.
191 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 7:00:35 PM by Doe Eyes
spoken like a real American conservative who hates the American people and their right to vote for whoever they want
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To: outhousepatrol
Malihi, a RAT Judge........we should have known better, a Zell Miller appointee.
Sh!t, no judge is going to touch this. Not Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, Alito and certainly none of the other panty waste.
Face it, we're experiencing a coup and no one in power has the fortitude to stand up.
211 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 7:25:25 PM by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
Experiencing a coup? 58MM Americans voted for Obama, twit. A coup was what happened in FL in 2000.
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To: RitchieAprile
what does that have to do with your obsession with Os birth cert?
Go back sleep, no wonder you come on here and yawn.
This issue isn't about his BC.... and you wonder why you might be referred to as a moron, moron.
And as far as being an ass, you can kiss it.
246 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 7:56:30 PM by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
Alert!!!!