Harry Reid: Judge Judy would throw out GOP's Obama lawsuit 'in half a second'

House Republicans' forthcoming lawsuit against President Obama is such a load of nonsense that it wouldn't fly in a reality TV courtroom, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

Speaking on the Senate floor Monday, Reid said Republicans were so "desperate" for a spectacle to embarrass the president that they'd concocted a scheme "worthy of daytime television." Yet their lawsuit, he added, was even too farfetched for that venue.

"They should go talk to Judge Judy," Reid said. "She would throw this case out in half a second."

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