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it was Judge David O. Carter who dismissed a birther lawsuit against Pres BHO in 2009
'Birthers' lawsuit challenging Obama's election is dismissed
October 29, 2009
The “birthers” lose, again.
This morning, a U.S. District Court Judge in Santa Ana dismissed a federal lawsuit challenging President Obama’s election on the grounds he wasn’t born in the U.S.
In his opinion, Judge David O. Carter stated that it is not within the constitutional power of the federal courts to “overthrow a sitting president.”
The case, brought forward by California attorney Orly Taitz, a leader of the so-called “birther” movement, claims that Obama doesn’t meet the constitutional qualifications to be president because he has not shown he is a “natural born citizen” of the U.S.
Obama has produced a birth certificate from Hawaii, but Taitz claims there is evidence he was born in Kenya.
This case has failed to advance beyond several lower courts. Taitz was also fined $20,000 on Oct. 13 by a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia in part because Taitz had used the legal system to pursue “political rhetoric and insults,” the judge in that case stated.
In the most recent case, Carter wrote in his opinion how “plaintiffs have attacked” anyone who has dismissed their claim as “unpatriotic and even treasonous.”
“Respecting the constitutional role and jurisdiction of this court is not unpatriotic," he said. "Quite the contrary, this Court considers commitment to that constitutional role to be the ultimate reflection of patriotism.”
Read the opinion here (https://web.archive.org/web/20091103235500/http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2009-10/50159006.pdf)
https://web.archive.org/web/20091101122828/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/birthers-lawsuit-challenging-obamas-election-dismissed.html
call to further dig on this judge