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Judge assails cases doubting Obama's citizenship

By NEDRA PICKLER

WASHINGTON (AP)

A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit questioning President
Barack Obama's citizenship, lambasting the case as a waste of the
court's time and suggesting the plaintiff's attorney may have to
compensate the president's lawyer.

In an argument popular on the Internet and taken seriously practically
nowhere else, Obama's critics argue he is ineligible to be president
because he is not a "natural-born citizen" as the Constitution requires.

In response last summer, Obama's campaign posted his Hawaiian birth
certificate on its Web site. But the lawsuit argues it is a fake and
that Obama was actually born in his father's homeland of Kenya, even
though Hawaiian officials have said the document is authentic.

"This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one
of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that
America has too many lawyers with not enough to do," U.S. District Judge
James Robertson said in his written opinion.

The lawsuit didn't even use Obama's legal name but called him "Barry
Soetoro," the name he went by while attending elementary school in
Indonesia. It's one of many that has been filed claiming Obama is
ineligible to serve as president.

Robertson ordered plaintiff's attorney John Hemenway of Colorado
Springs, Colo., to show why he hasn't violated court rules barring
frivolous and harassing cases and shouldn't have to pay Obama's
attorney, Bob Bauer, for his time arguing that the case should be thrown
out.

Copyright (c) 2009 The Associated Press

--- Xnews/5.04.25