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According to Friday’s ruling by Georgia Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi, the president is indeed a natural-born citizen eligible to run for office in this fall’s election.
Malihi, who lacks even the authority to enforce a contempt-of-court order, wrote in a 10-page decision that the evidence presented was “wholly insufficient to support Plaintiffs’ allegations.”
Singling out attorney Orly Taitz for particular criticism, Malihi noted that the woman known as the “birther queen” had failed to show that any of her witnesses were actually experts, and that neither their testimony nor her exhibits proved her claim that the president is a former Indonesian citizen who used a fake name, stolen Social Security number, and forged birth certificate to support his candidacy.
The judge was equally unimpressed by the claims of attorneys Mark Hatfield and Van Irion, both of whom argued that while a “citizen” is anyone born on U.S. soil regardless of their parents’ citizenship, a “natural-born citizen” must be the offspring of two U.S. citizens. Since the president’s father was never a U.S. citizen, they argued, Obama is constitutionally ineligible for office.
P.S. Excuse the 'Jan Brewer' tag. The Newsvine system doesn't allow us to erase erroneous tags. Carloz
