Posted on 02/03/2010 11:11:32 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Lawyers defending the government-orchestrated deal by which Chrysler was purchased by Fiat and hundreds of dealers were thrown out of the network have raised President Barack Obama's eligibility for office as a possible issue in the dispute.
In a footnote in their latest court filing, attorneys representing the old car company at the firm of Jones Day have cited a "scheme" purportedly on the part of the lawyers for the former Chrysler dealers – the plaintiffs in the case.
"Although the debtors have no independent knowledge of these matters, the debtors have taken note of certain public statements connecting the motion to a crusade involving the movants' counsel to challenge Barack Obama's legitimacy as president of the United States," the court filing states. "For example, one report has stated: Birthers are launching yet another scheme … [that] involves a legal maneuver known as 'quo warranto,' a prerogative writ requiring the person to whom it is directed to show what authority he has for exercising some right or power (or 'franchise') he claims to hold."
Attorney Stephen Pidgeon, who along with Leo Donofrio is representing more than 70 former Chrysler dealerships put out of business by the machinations involved in granting massive quantities of taxpayer funds to Chrysler, which then was taken over by Fiat, said it's a good sign for the case.
"This is very encouraging because they are attempting to distract the court from the law, a tactic they would not employ if they truly thought the law was on their side. … This case is getting very interesting," he said.
On his blog, Donofrio agreed.
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>but he has already stated his father wasn’t American
Then his lawyers need to read up!
I assure you, Leo Donofrio is at least as well read on the topic as every U.S. Senator, since every senator signed Senate Res. 511 in 2008 assuring us that McCain was a natural born citizen because both of his parents were citizens, and that is the requirement. Needless to say, they said nothing about Obama because he wasn't yet the nominee, but after became the nominee they were asked, in writing, to similarly examine Obama’s qualifications and declined to do so. That violates the equal protection clause of The Constitution and Congress is a defendant in the Kerchner law suit.
Donofrio is the attorney who discovered in late 2008 that Chester Arthur was a usurper. He is also the attorney who saw the birth certificate issue as a “head fake.” There was perhaps a similar ploy used to distract the electorate from Arthur's real problem. A reporter wrote a book questioning whether Arthur might actually have been born in Northern Ireland. It caused quite a stir, so much a stir that no one bothered to examine when Arthur's father, about whose naturalization no one thought to ask, was naturalized. It turned out, as Donofrio exposed, that Chester was fourteen when his dad, a minister, was naturalized. And naturally, Chester lied repeatedly about the fact.
I'll bet Larry Tribe and Ted Olson know the truth about Obama too. I've begun to think that they accept that the Constitution is what you want it to be, since there are lots of citations in court cases confirming the Jefferson, Washington, Jay, Story, Marshall definition based upon the most widely cited legal source between 1789 and 1820, Vattel’s Law of Nations, and none claiming any other definition. There was a law, thus not superseding the supreme court or Consitution, passed in 1790 and repealed in 1795 which added the children of citizen diplomats overseas. But Obama is a poster boy for why the founders required a natural born citizen - sole allegiance to the U.S. of his parents helps to insure the allegiance of the son.
Toyota is facing a public relations disaster that can destroy the company, they have already lost $2 billion in stock value.
I think Toyota should come out swinging against Obama with every tool and intelligence thats available even if its using the natural born citizen eligibility question against the POTUS.
Seconded. The administration is in fact going after non-union jobs at those plants. Toyota should talk up the administration's persecution of private industry and the resulting loss of American manufacturing jobs.
If Toyota doesn’t follow suit along with Chrysler they will never recover consumer confidence in America, honestly they were in the last couple of years providing engines and trucks that were arguably as good or better than US trucks, they made advances in NASCAR, they have a long history of affordable long running vehicles.
If they don’t take a strategic offensive position against the Obama machine they will suddenly find themselves locked out of the American market and the rising Government Motors.
So had the Senate passed a similar non-binding resolution saying that since Obama was born in Hawaii then he was a natural born citizen then would that have ended the matter for you?
That violates the equal protection clause of The Constitution and Congress is a defendant in the Kerchner law suit.
Huh?
Donofrio is the attorney who discovered in late 2008 that Chester Arthur was a usurper. He is also the attorney who saw the birth certificate issue as a “head fake.”
He was also the attorney who filed suit to force Bush and Cheney over knowing ahead of time about 9/11 and doing nothing about it.
...since there are lots of citations in court cases confirming the Jefferson, Washington, Jay, Story, Marshall definition based upon the most widely cited legal source between 1789 and 1820, Vattel’s Law of Nations, and none claiming any other definition.
And since none of those cases involved the question of natural-born citizenship then none of the comments were legally binding.
I can donate $12 to his “campaign” fund so that he can produce this birth certificate. So that our “President” can focus on leading our country.
“What is there to fear?”
There was a very good President that once asked something like this, but his answer was completely different than what the Obama administration’s answer would be. We should have nothing to fear but fear itself. But Obama has has the truth to fear which is everything.
I think he lawyers do read up, they just can’t read up fast enough. Obama is upsetting so many people that the complaints are flying in from so many directions.
What if ‘Daddy’ (Barak, Sr) is not the presidents real father? Would explain a few things, including his limited contacts with Barak, Sr. and his continuing reluctance to release his long-form birth certificate.
With Barak, Jr’s mother, anything was possible.
What The Progressives cannot stand is their own damn system created this fraud.
“Uncle Frank†has been mentioned as an alternate. Googling “Frank Marshall Davis†is a real eye opener. Openly communist, openly pedophile, doper. Little Obama said he would “ply†him with alcohol and drugs. What did Frankie want to ply him for?
Yes, but legally that is just hearsay. If a certified copy of either the long form or the short form were to be admitted into evidence in a Court of Law, then it would be legal proof. And Obama would be toast. Although it would take a bit of legal flaying until he became burnt toast.
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