He served three terms (6 years) representing District 16, the same seat previously held by his cousin Ted.
[5] Land was in the spotlight in late 2009 when he tried the case Rhodes v. Macdonald, in which Army physician Connie Rhodes attempted to secure a restraining order against her being deployed to Iraq on the argument that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and was ineligible to serve as President.
[6] Two days later, she filed a motion to stay Rhodes' deployment pending rehearing of the dismissal order.
[10][11] Upon learning of Land's ruling, Taitz told Talking Points Memo that she would not pay the fine, calling it "intimidation".
During the more than three-month period, from the original filing to the day of the hearing, one inmate in a nearby facility died from the disease.