Posted on 03/31/2009 11:52:28 PM PDT by appleseed
On March 25th, Clinton-appointed Judge James Robertson (U.S. District Court), after having threatened to impose financial sanctions on John D. Hemenway for having enjoined the Berg lawsuit to force President Obama to release his birth records to prove his citizenship, backed down. Instead of financial penalties, the Judge issued a reprimand tinged with flippancy.
Judge Robertson reconsidered his previous sanctions threat, possibly fearing monetary sanctions might spark a backlash and give a boost to the grassroots effort to force Mr. Obama to relinquish his records for public scrutiny. While the Judge gives passing tribute to Hemenway's long career of public service, "Mr. Hemenway is 82 years old and takes considerable and justified pride in his patriotic public service and his status as a Rhodes Scholar" he errs in one key respect, alleging that Hemenway is "unlikely to repeat the conduct that gave rise to this proceeding, and in his case the permissible alternative sanction of a reprimand will be sufficient." Reprimand aside, Hemenway will continue to seek the truth about Obama's birthplace and citizenship, as will other patriotic citizens who believe no President and no future Presidential candidate should be allowed to conceal documents that would prove that he or she is legally qualified to serve.
The Judge did concede that others "similarly situated" are "unlikely to be deterred, except by a penalty that would be unreasonable to impose on Mr. Hemenway alone." But curiously, the Judge previously only threatened Hemenway with financial sanctions, not Philip Berg, Hillary Clinton's ally, or the other lawyer involved in the case, Lawrence Joyce from Arizona.
The Judge errs in another respect, saying: "Many people, perhaps as many as a couple of dozen, feel deeply about this issue, a strong indication that this Judge feels he can dismiss the legal merits of the issue by pretending that there is no public interest at stake.” He must be unaware that an AOL poll, albeit admittedly unscientific, found that a majority of Americans believe Mr. Obama should release his records to determine his eligibility; that more than 345,000 U.S. citizens have signed an online petition demanding Obama's birth records be released; and that many more are blogging, calling, and writing Congressional offices to ask their Members of Congress to sign onto Congressman Bill Posey's bill.
The Posey legislation would require future candidates for President to be vetted for eligibility, an admission that the last national election's screening process for candidates was substandard. Ironically, it was this very process of blogging and Twittering that the Judge earlier invoked as having already settled the eligibility issue – therefore, based on this flawed rationale, there was no need for his own court to weigh in, review evidence and relevant documents to determine whether Mr. Obama is a "natural born" citizen.
This is a Judge who clearly is letting his skewed perception of public sentiment guide his judicial rulings. It would clearly have been judicially expedient, saving the taxpayers time and money, given the number of eligibility lawsuits filed across the country, simply to direct President Obama to produce an actual birth (or "vault") certificate and not a COLB (Certification of Live Birth and one that lacks a doctor's signature or hospital name) that has been given to others not born on the island of Hawaii.
According to the Washington Times, the Judge claimed he suffered "emotional distress" after receiving a letter from an elderly gentleman, Philip Merrell, a resident of Washington, D.C., who vented outrage at the Judge for his threat to levy sanctions on Hemenway for petitioning the court. The Judge's emotional distress resulted in the dispatch of two armed federal marshals who paid a visit to the Merrell home to inquire as to whether the gentleman knew Hemenway, purportedly at the judge's prompting. For the record, no Hemenway had ever heard of Mr. Merrell until the marshals' visit was exposed by the Washington Times, but we certainly understand his consternation about anyone aspiring to become President while keeping birth, academic and passport records under lock and key, while continuing to tout publicly the "openness" of his Administration. We also share Mr. Merrell's indignation that a judge whose principal duty is to uphold the law instead engages in judicial hocus pocus and obfuscation, rather than address in his courtroom the Constitutional requirement for the Presidency to be a "natural born citizen" as laid out in Article II, Section 1.
Hemenway scathingly rebutted this idiot leftist judge when he asked to show cause. I was hoping the idiot would impose the fine on the lawyer which would have opened a path for discovery of Obama's hidden records. I guess the judge is only a moron that's slightly above an idiot.
Does anybody know what happened to the group that was going to take Obama to court the first time he signed a bill into law to challenge it's validity (forcing him to prove his eligibility)?
i would love to hear the rebuttal
and all this is over the fact that the person in the oval office refuses to provide evidence that he is eligible to assume the office.
who would think all this would stem from trying to keep a single piece of paper from the light of day
What is interesting here; is 'who' the photographer is; and the speculation by his own writings that Frank Marshall Davis, may be Obama's Father and hence another case for hiding BC. . .but who knows; we can be sure Obama is not going for 'DNA' and the BC mystery will remain - for whatever reason - albeit; for 'how long' is the challenge.
...,perhaps as many as a couple of dozen, FEEL deeply about this issue,”...
Save the FEELINGS for the left Judge, thinking people want some answers, and we want the NOW.
FR has a thread about the lawyer's response to the Commie judge.
and we want them NOW.
My fingers don’t always do what I tell them to.
Actually, Obama is defending two issues w/ respect to his eligibility.
One is the birth certificate, which is well known and needs no rehash. Personally, I don't think he has a problem, even if it is proved that he was born in a Mombasa hospital as his paternal grandmother says he was. As long as his mother's marriage was truly bigamous and therefore void under U.S. law, Obama is in fact a natural-born citizen, if a bastard.
The other is the issue of his boyhood Indonesian naturalization, which may have wiped his "natural-born citizen" status. That needs to be elucidated as well.
~~PING!
God bless her ... and her father-in-law.
“FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Margaret Hemenway is the daughter-in-law of John D. Hemenway and spent 15 years in the Congress, both House and Senate, and five years as a White House appointee at DoD and NASA.”
Here is the thread:
COUNSEL’S RESPONSE TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE (re: Hollister v Obama)
Too bad. Obama operatives must have warned this idiot judge to drop it, before the defendent brought in a demand for discovery.
It’s hard to say you have no “standing” when you are defending yourself against an illegal judicial fine.
Well, there goes another chance to nail Obama with the truth.
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