Monthly Archives: November 2009

Powell v. Obama

Powell v. Obama (US District Court for the Southern District of Texas) is not an eligibility case and I won’t be adding it to the docket or tracking it, but I wanted to mention it for the purpose of comparing … Continue reading

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Three Supreme Court mistakes

As a general proposition, saying that the Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it does is only true in a narrow legal, and sometimes temporary sense, but not always in a historical, legal or moral sense. The Supreme Court … Continue reading

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Orly Taitz links Texas shooting to dismissal of her case: invokes god as witness

In one of the more arrogant and bizarre items on the Orly Taitz Web site, Orly wrote: “massacare [is this an antebellum slave holder’s medical plan?] at Fort Hood, connection to my cases or how corrupt judges endanger the Nation” … Continue reading

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The Doc gets caught

Your host has been caught doing something he shouldn’t: using a copyrighted photo without permission. The photo is that iconic image of Orly Taitz as dentist, photographed by John Gilhooley, that was published on the OC Weekly web site. John … Continue reading

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Somebody maybe threatened Orly

It looks like someone posted the following comment using the name Aziz on Orly’s blog, which she quoted in an article asking “someone” to trace the IP address of the commenter, who said: The shootings in Texas at military base … Continue reading

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Pottawattamie County v. McGhee (updated)

This is not an Obama eligibility case but it raises a tangentially similar issue. Oral arguments were heard before the US Supreme Court today in the case of  Pottawattamie County v. McGhee. McGhee was one of two young black men … Continue reading

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