Judge Michael Malihi of Georgia’s Office of Administrative Hearings issued a 10-page finding yesterday, Feb. 3, in which he declared the evidence to remove President Obama from his state’s November ballot on the grounds that he is not a natural born citizen and hence violates the Constitutional requirements to hold the office to be “unsatisfactory” and “insufficient to support the plantiffs’ allegations.”
Malihi said that those who testified about alleged fraud concerning the President’s birth certificate were never qualified as experts in forged documents or document manipulation, and that a 2009 ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals declared that children born within the United States are natural-born citizens, regardless of the citizenry of their parents.
Malihi did harshly criticize the behavior of the president’s attorney, Michael Jablonski of Atlanta, who declined to attend the hearing on his client’s behalf.
The final decision as to whether the President should remain on the ballot, however, rests with Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
I will go out on a limb and say that this story will be reported prominently in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, and that for most of their readers it will be the first they hear about it.
Hat tip Cathy Craddock