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Other news from the 9th Circus:

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California court throws out lawsuit questioning Obama’s citizenship (Keyes)
By Denny Walsh
Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010

Excerpt:

The court did not deal with the citizenship issue, instead ruling that the California secretary of state, who oversees elections, and the state’s Electoral College members are not legally responsible to certify presidential candidates as qualified for the office.

Under the terms of the U.S. Constitution’s 12th Amendment, that responsibility rests solely with Congress, a unanimous three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal declared.

The SCOTUS Docket was updated today regarding the Natural Born Citizen questions that Mario Apuzzo has in front of the court.

Does this mean that Obama has chosen to NOT reply to those questions?

And does this mean that Kreep has successfully leeched onto Mario's case? Will Kreep drag it down?

QUESTIONS PRESENTED

1. Whether petitioners sufficiently articulated a case or controversy against respondents which gives them Article III standing to make their Fifth Amendment due process and equal protection claims against them.

2. Whether putative President Obama can be an Article II “natural born Citizen” if he was born in the United States to a United States citizen mother and a non-United States citizen British father and under the British Nationality Act 1948 he was born a British citizen.

3. Whether putative President Obama and Congress violated petitioners’ Fifth Amendment due process rights to life, liberty, safety, security, tranquility, and property and Ninth Amendment rights by Congress failing to assure them pursuant to the Twentieth Amendment that Obama qualified as an Article II “natural born Citizen” before confirming his electoral votes and by Obama refusing to conclusively prove that he is a “natural born Citizen.”

4. Whether Congress violated petitioners’ rights under the Fifth Amendment to equal protection of their life, liberty, safety, security, tranquility, and property by investigating and confirming the “natural born Citizen” status of presidential candidate, John McCain, but not that of presidential candidate, Barack Obama.

Basically, it means nothing. Every Respondent can choose to respond to the Petition or not. The option remains, should the Court grant certiorari, to file a responsive brief. The Respondents most likely assume the Court will NOT grant certiorari, so it’s not worth it to them to invest the time/costs to prepare a response.

Actually, the Western Journalism group’s interest in filing an amicus brief is interesting.

Apparently, Mario TURNED DOWN Kreep’s help!
Here is what Kreep says in his Amicus...

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THE PARTIES HAVE BEEN GIVEN APPROPRIATE NOTICE OF AMICUS CURIE’S INTENTION TO FILE THIS BRIEF. THE PETITIONERS [that would be Kerchner, et al] HAVE REFUSED AND THE CONSENT OF THE RESPONDENTS IS BEING LODGED HEREWITH.

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COUNSEL FOR PETITIONERS (that would be Mario) HAS WITHHELD CONSENT; COUNSEL FOR RESPONDENT (Obama’s lawyer) HAS CONSENTED TO THE FILING OF THIS BRIEF.

I’d say that Mario sees Kreep as a bumbler that trashes all the eligibility cases he touches.

And the White House seems to agree.