Judge Throws Out Birther Case, Blasts Lawyer

This is utterly delicious:

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land tossed out on Wednesday a complaint by an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama.

Land also put attorney Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the national “birther” movement, on notice by stating that she could face sanctions if she ever again files in his court a similar “frivolous” lawsuit — a document that at one point the judge states that a middle school student could find irony in.

“(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States,” Land states in his order. “Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is ‘an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.”

Greyhawk has no problem with this ruling:

We discovered fairly early on that Major Cook (the last guy to try this stunt) was a true blue birfer nutbag, and not just a garden variety trashbag trying to get out of a deployment eight years after the beginning of a war. But regardless, he got out of his deployment. (More accurately, his downrange commander decided he could find someone competent to fill the crucial position he didn’t need a Cook-type for.) That bottom line has to be attractive to folks who don’t want to suddenly discover their homosexuality, become Quakers or pregnant, get diagnosed with an identified mental disorder, a debilitating injury or illness, or otherwise make themselves non-deployable. (This is not intended as a slur to those who authentically experience something from that list.)

What’s the case here? Who cares. I hope this doesn’t become a problem for the military, and I pity anyone who might have to spend time in Iraq with “Cpt” Rhodes. Being there is bad enough.

Via Memeorandum.