Judge issues warning to attorney for filing frivolous case arguing Pres. Obama is ineligible to serve as president

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land has issued a stern warning to attorney Orly Taitz and others in the so-called “birther” campaign to stop filing “frivolous” lawsuits. Land threw out the lawsuit filed on behalf of Capt. Connie Rhodes who is an Army surgeon challenging her deployment orders due to President Barack Obama’s alleged ineligibility to serve as President. Land held that the claim presented no credible evidence and 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 and that, "[i]nstead, 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.’” Land then warned the lawyer who filed the claim that he may impose sanctions if she files any more “similarly frivolous … actions in this Court.”

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