Obama ignores GA Judge

 

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Obama Ordered To Appear Before Atlanta Judge

by KEITH KOFFLER on JANUARY 21, 2012, 11:39 AM

President Obama has been ordered to appear before a judge in Atlanta in a case challenging whether he is qualified to be president of the United States, according to the Associated Press.

The judge set the hearing for this Thursday after denying on Friday a motion by Obama’s lawyer to quash a subpoena that requires Obama to personally show up.

Obama, however, will be nowhere near Atlanta on Thursday. According to the White House, he will be out West promoting the agenda he plans to lay out in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Obama Thursday plans to make appearances in Las Vegas and Denver areas before traveling on to Detroit to spend the night.

Litigants in the case say he is not eligible to run in Georgia’s March Democratic primary because they claim he is not a “natural born citizen” as required by the Constitution, since his father was not a citizen. But they clearly hope a ruling against Obama will make the issue a national cause and raise questions about his eligibility to run in the general election.

 

 

Comments

[ellenhancock]

That is not an accurate report. Here is what really happened. The lawyer for some of the plaintiffs in the case, OrlyTaitz, got a blank subpoena form signed by Judge Malihi from a state web site and has it served on Obama’s attorney. The situation is that although the judge has so far refused defense motions to quash the subpoena, he has NOT issued any order for Obama to appear, and in fact he cannot issue such an order. Why not? Because in Georgia, an administrative law judge does not have the authority to compel testimony. That requires an order from the state Superior Court.

[ellenhancock]

Obama did not appear in court yesterday, and the judge did not say one word about Obama having violated a subpoena.