Ethics

Another Obama Citizenship Case Dismissed

By Ed Brayton

Yet another Obama citizenship case has been dismissed. It's another suit from Philip Berg, the nut from Pennsylvania, but with a different plaintiff. He found a retired military officer nut to sign on, hoping that would establish standing to bring the suit. It didn't. And the ruling is quite funny. Judge James Robertson basically mocked the attorneys. The first paragraph:

This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do. Even in its relatively short life the case has excited the blogosphere and the conspiracy theorists. The right thing to do is to bring it to an early end.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).