A New Legal Standard?

Apparently, whether something has been sufficiently blogged and "twittered" is a new standard for deciding whether a legal question should be adjudicated. And apparently, Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as President has been so discussed. Therefore, despite a continued lack of a simple piece of hard evidence (his birth certificate, perhaps?) being produced - the issue has been twittered enough that it can no longer be the basis of a lawsuit.

Now, I believe that Obama probably is a citizen. But the fact that the question has not been answered in a way to satisfy anyone who is really asking it makes you wonder why not. It should be so simple for Obama to prove he is a citizen, but every case is basically dismissed on other grounds. It is a little weird, isn't it?

But weirder still is the judge's ruling. This has to be the first time in legal history that a judge has decided that something has been the subject of so much public discourse that the court case does not actually have to be decided based on the law. Bottom line, if you want a court to decide a matter, don't twitter about it!