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To: little jeremiah
They aren’t fooling themselves that they’re being “objective”. They’re just rooting for the wrong team.

I'm not rooting for Obama, but I'm enough of a lawyer to know that no court is going to remove a sitting President, just like every court up to and including SCOTUS refused to rule on constitutional challenges to the Vietnam War.

There was a way to get a court ruling on Obama's NBC status-- another candidate on the primary or general election ballot in a state could have brought a lawsuit under state election law to take his name off the ballot. No one did, and such lawsuits must be filed before election day. The Electoral College then voted and Congress certified the results, so no court can now touch the issue.

Congress can impeach Obama, or an election law challenge can be brought by a candidate on the 2012 ballot, or the people can vote him out in 2012. Those are the only mechanisms for getting him out of office now.

51 posted on 04/16/2010 3:47:47 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

So a “sitting president” is sort of like a God-king - “the king can do no wrong”.

I thought that one of the reasons we had the first American Revolution.


54 posted on 04/16/2010 4:00:02 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Gee, this is quite similar to what Obama himself did whenever he had elections earlier in his career.


125 posted on 04/19/2010 1:06:04 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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