Orly, in response to Judge Carter’s ruling asserted that

Another point – Judge Carter state in court and in his order that I told people to call him This is not true. Who told it to judge Carter? His new clerk, fresh out of Perkins Coie, law firm, that represented Obama, in some 100 cases?

Well, let’s see

On June 9, Orly published this article:

Please call the Central district court in CA, the clerk has to issue a default today. He has been dragging his feet since the 06.02.09.

Posted on | June 9, 2009 | 17 Comments

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We are now in the third week since Judge Carter held his hearing and still no ruling. That the Judge is not in a hurry became evident during the October 5, 2009 hearing, where the Court provided us with an invaluable insight into his concerns and thoughts. First of all, the Judge is very concerned about standing, that is, do the plaintiffs have standing to bring this suit.

THE COURT:  I need some time just to sort out the arguments.  I didn’t put out a tentative today because I wanted to thoughtfully listen to your respective positions. I think that’s a courtesy I could pay you.  After all, jurists aren’t supposed to make up their minds beforehand –  and your papers get you part way there.  It’s the arguments that are also helpful.

Obviously, you are hearing from your perspective, Ms. Taitz and Mr. Kreep, that I’m most concerned about standing.  If you haven’t heard that, I don’t know what you heard.

Even if standing is resolved, there remains a second question of justiciability, that is does the Court have jurisdiction to hear the case even if the plaintiffs are found to have standing. Furthermore, there is the political doctrine question

You’ve heard from the government’s position that if standing is appropriate, that I’m most concerned about justiciability — J-U-S-T-I-C-I-B — for some reason I’m tongue-tied on that.  I’m most concerned about whether the Courts really do lack jurisdiction if we get by the standing argument, and what’s happened to the political question doctrine regardless.  But I’m concerned whether this is substantial and I’m concerned if it’s in the correct venue, even if we got there.  In other words, there’s a whole trilogy of questions.

As to the January 26th date, the Court clearly believes that no matter how he rules, one side will immediately file an interlocutory appeal and the case will grind to a halt until the appeal has been decided. It is clear that Orly’s hopes for a January 26th trial will be squashed, either way.

I’m a little concerned, just speaking out loud, what I do and how far I go in an opinion.  If I rule against you, of course, it’s resolved; it’s going forward.  I would grant an interloc to take it up immediately, of course.

If I rule against you, of course, you would take it up immediately.  I would put it in the same position. You don’t need an interloc, but I would give you one and encourage one to go up immediately.

The OCRegister reports that the request for judicial notice by Orly Taitz, involving a Kenyan newspaper stating that Obama was born in Kenya, was not based on an AP press statement:

Plus … since originally posting this item, I received the following statement from Paul Colford, director of media relations for the Associated Press: “The AP has never reported that President Obama was born in Kenya. In fact, AP news stories about the state of Hawaii have confirmed that he was born there. The Kenyan paper that you cite rewrote a 2004 AP story, adding the phrase ‘Kenyan-born.’ That wording was not in the AP version of the story.”

And yet, there will always be some who’d rather doubt the AP than accept that they were wrong themselves.

For instance “David Crocket” on the Betrayal ‘reports’

David Crockett // Oct 28, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Sue,

Well so you are saying that the Kenyan paper added the reference to being Kenyan Born and by consequence falsified the AP story. Well let me tell you one thing I don’t believe AP one bit in this case they more likely than not are trying to pull themselves out of the mess.

Of course if you were to come up with a screen copy of the original AP story I willing to look further into the issue but in the absence of that I am going for the article such as we have it.

Another question you would have to answer is why did the Kenyan paper went ahead “correcting” AP on the issue of his Kenyan birth, wouldn’t you think they knew the facts and felt compelled correcting the matter. Don’t forget this was prior to the Kenyan media being forced into censoring everything deviating from the “official” Obama account.

http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=4069#comment-22565

It’s hard to argue with those who have already made up their minds about Obama, in spite of the facts.

PS: Hint for Orly: Copies of AP releases can be obtained through various online services and cost at best a few dollars.