Obama attorney to boycott ‘birther’ hearing
January 25th, 2012, 4:26 pm · ·
posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter, the Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif.
Scoffing at a judge’s call for Barack Obama to appear in court Thursday, Obama attorney Michael Jablonski says that not only will the president not be on hand but neither will Jablonski.
The lawsuit, in which several Georgia voters are represented by Laguna Niguel attorney Orly Taitz, calls for Obama to be removed from Georgia’s March 6 primary ballot on the grounds that he doesn’t meet the requirement of being a natural-born citizen.
Jablonski wrote Georgia’s secretary of state to intervene and dismiss the suit.
“All issues were presented to your hearing officer – the clear-cut decision to be on the merits, and the flagrantly unethical and unprofessional conduct of counsel – and he has allowed the plaintiffs’ counsel to run amok,” Jablonski wrote. “He has not even addressed these issues—choosing to ignore them.
“We await your taking the requested action, and as we do so, we will, of course, suspend further participation in these proceedings, including the hearing scheduled for January 26.”
Taitz responded promptly on her blog.
“He is acting like a 5-year-old brat, saying ‘I am afraid of Orly, I want the secretary of state of Georgia to act like my mommy and protect me from Orly,’” she wrote. “Some leader of a free world.”
On Friday, Taitz’s string of failed lawsuits challenging Obama’s birth status was interrupted by a rare – if incremental – courtroom victory when Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi dismissed Jablonski’s request to quash Taitz’s subpoena to have Obama appear.
Malihi wrote that Obama’s court filings fail to show why his attendance would be “unreasonable or oppressive” or why his testimony would be “irrelevant, immaterial or cumulative.”
The White House has announced that Obama would be amid a campaign swing through several states on Thursday. Georgia is not among the states listed.
The state Democratic Party also announced it would boycott the hearing.
“They can tilt at windmills on their own,” said state party spokesman Eric Gray, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Jim Galloway.
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