Birthers win a victory in court on Obama birth certificate issue
Today California judge David Carter scheduled a tentative trial date for the case that is before the court, a case challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president. The trial date has been set for January 26, 2010.
If the case does in fact go to trial it will be the first time that such a case has been argued in open court.
Today's hearing was highly anticipated and long awaited by birthers. The hearing had several motions that were heard, including a resolution to long standing questions about whether Orly Taitz properly served notice to the defendants .
In another ruling, Carter ruled that attorney Gary Kreep can be added to the case to represent Wiley Drake and Markham Robinson. Both of whom had been removed by an earlier court. Drake, was a Vice Presidential candidate for the American Independent Party and Robinson is the party's chairman.
However the judge did not rule on a motion by Taitz to be granted discovery, which is the right to see the records in contention. He also did not rule on a motion to dismiss the case entirely. That motion was submitted by the U.S. government, after a discussion over Orly Taitz' challenge to the work of a magistrate in this case.
Judge Carter did not comment that if there are legitimate constitutional questions about Obama's eligibility, that they would need to be addressed and resolved.
Carter ordered a hearing Oct. 5 on the motion to dismiss and ordered arguments submitted on the issue of discovery.
To meet the January trial date, the case still needs to survive the October 5th hearing. If it does in fact survive, it would go to a January 11th pretrial hearing and finally the trial two weeks after that.
The case would be the first time that the merits of such a case will have been heard in court. There have been a number of cases that have been dismissed by various state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
I will be posting a special commetary on the subject later on.
If you have a comment please post it or e-mail it to me directly, I love to hear from you all.
For more information please contact: Ruben Christopher, e-mail ruben.christopher@ymail.com
Today California judge David Carter scheduled a tentative trial date for the case that is before the court, a case challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president. The trial date has been set for January 26, 2010.
If the case does in fact go to trial it will be the first time that such a case has been argued in open court.
Today's hearing was highly anticipated and long awaited by birthers. The hearing had several motions that were heard, including a resolution to long standing questions about whether Orly Taitz properly served notice to the defendants .
In another ruling, Carter ruled that attorney Gary Kreep can be added to the case to represent Wiley Drake and Markham Robinson. Both of whom had been removed by an earlier court. Drake, was a Vice Presidential candidate for the American Independent Party and Robinson is the party's chairman.
However the judge did not rule on a motion by Taitz to be granted discovery, which is the right to see the records in contention. He also did not rule on a motion to dismiss the case entirely. That motion was submitted by the U.S. government, after a discussion over Orly Taitz' challenge to the work of a magistrate in this case.
Judge Carter did not comment that if there are legitimate constitutional questions about Obama's eligibility, that they would need to be addressed and resolved.
Carter ordered a hearing Oct. 5 on the motion to dismiss and ordered arguments submitted on the issue of discovery.
To meet the January trial date, the case still needs to survive the October 5th hearing. If it does in fact survive, it would go to a January 11th pretrial hearing and finally the trial two weeks after that.
The case would be the first time that the merits of such a case will have been heard in court. There have been a number of cases that have been dismissed by various state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
I will be posting a special commetary on the subject later on.
If you have a comment please post it or e-mail it to me directly, I love to hear from you all.
For more information please contact: Ruben Christopher, e-mail ruben.christopher@ymail.com
