Posted on 02/24/2013 6:02:20 AM PST by IbJensen
A stunning press release by Obama eligibility challenger, Attorney Orly Taitz is revealing “…clerks of the Supreme Court NEVER forwarded to five out of the nine justices one single page of pleadings nor the Supplemental Brief” so they could review details prior to last Friday’s (Feb. 15, 2013) conference! Her case, Noonan v. Bowen, (CA Secretary of State) seeks relief in the form of a stay of election results of the Presidential election of Barack Hussein Obama because of his lack of citizenship, problematic Birth Certificate posted on the internet, plus non verifiable Social Security and Selective Service records and other data. (1)
What is especially troubling is the fact that, according to Taitz, she went in person to file the renewed application for Stays with Supreme Court Clerk Redmond Barnes and talked to Clerks Sevgi Tekeli and James Baldin as she submitted a supplemental brief concerning a national security matter. She was told to submit this material to the guard “for mandatory anthrax screening.” Taitz continues: “THE CLERKS NEVER DOCKETED” her applications! By going to her website and scrolling down, you can view the photographs of the data including the boxes and stamps contained therein.
Taitz then addressed a demand for investigation to U.S. House of Representative Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. (2) Even as these legal developments were taking place, Taitz observed that information obfuscating what was really going on was putting out the notion that her pleading was denied.
The written order does NOT state whether the application was granted or denied, she says! (3)
Retired Air Force Colonel Richard Brewer states: “I have watched with increasing alarm as those in our government particularly our judiciary at various levels have chosen to ignore the evidence and instead attack the messenger or resort to technicalities to avoid doing their job. . .I am more concerned now about the future of our country than I have ever been!” He cites the famous General Douglas MacArthur quote: “A million ghosts will rise up shouting DUTY HONOR COUNTRY.” Brewer is calling on everyone concerned to “look at every shred of evidence” in the challenge to Obama’s legitimacy to hold the office of the Presidency.
A vitally important part of the controversy involves Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requiring the U.S. President to be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Though not specifically defined in the Constitution, there can be no question that the Founders considered a Natural Born Citizen to be an individual born in the United States to two U.S. Citizen parents. In Obama’s own book, he states his father was born in Kenya.
Taitz urges all concerned American citizens to contact the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, especially Chair Bob Goodlatte. The toll free number is 1-877-762-8762. Clearly, this issue is fast approaching critical mass. Its outcome depends in large part on the reactions of concerned United States citizens!
SOURCE: (1) (2) www.orlytaitzesq.com (3) http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/021913zor_19m1.pdf
>> Let’s fight the battles we can win.
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> The House of Representatives has the “sole” power of impeachment. Between elections, impeachment (and the 25th Amendment) is the only legal path to the removal of a White House occupant. The Supreme Court has no power to remove presidents.
Question: How can the Supreme court remove a President if the Constitution itself prevents the person in question from BEING the President?
That no reputable conservative talk show host, attorney, judge, congressman, constitutional scholar or legal foundation will touch this stuff should tell you something about its merits. Of course, to birthers this is nothing more than evidence that they're all participants in this great conspiracy.
Who will deliver us from this madness?
If anyone is interested here are two more threads on this topic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2990199/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990308/posts
Orly’s press release of a Petition to Congressman Goodlatte, Chair of the Judiciary Committee:
“Fact is that everyone who is not raising the Obama Eligibility issue is an Obama Supporter.”
Fact is, there is no evidence that Obama is not constitutionally qualified. Legally, there is no doubt that the “2 citizen parent” argument is a myth - a misreading of a translation of Vattel made 10 years AFTER the Constitution, and contrary to the accepted meaning of natural born citizen used at the time the Constitution was written and ratified.
So as long as Hawaii maintains Obama was born in Hawaii, there is no legal argument.
Meanwhile, the Taitz idiot files petitions to the Supreme Court comparing them to Nazis and saying the law clerks should be sentenced to death. Someday, birthers need to wake up and realize Taitz doesn’t WANT to win. She just wants to ride the gravy train of donations so she won’t have to clean teeth for a living...
Wiki has a good account of this nut:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Taitz
BTW: My son is a staff attorney for the Eleventh Circuit. He handles mandamus petitions in the same manner as petitions for cert are handled for the SCOTUS. He reads the petition, writes a brief memo, drafts an appropriate order, and presents it to one judge.
The Constitution of the United States does not empower the Supreme Court to decide who can be the president.
From an intellectual standpoint, it is not hard to get yourself so tangled up in being questions that you become paralyzed. However, if you insist on turning this whole thing into a philosophical question:
Right now, Barack Obama either is or is not the president of the United States.
If Barack Obama is the president, the Constitution grants to the House of Representatives the "sole" power of impeachment and to the Senate the power to remove following impeachment. The Constitution does not provide the Supreme Court with that power.
If Barack Obama is not the president, then there isn't any need for anyone to do anything. You can just ignore what everyone tells you about the so-called "President Obama." You're not required to believe any of it.
In other words, Orly Taitz is baffled....
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Happens fairly regularly with Orly it seems.
And yet, this is not borne out in reality: what happens if you are a soldier who refuses to abide by orders due to the superiors having no authority? {The chain of command is dependent upon the fundamental qualities of authority: the one who is sent is under the authority of the one sending; this goes to the Commander-In-Chief, which the Constitution assigns as the President.}
The GOP leadership was scared to death of being labeled racist and thought that moderate McCain would swing the undecided vote. Few dared to raise questions about Obama's past except on talk radio. Obama's second term was a result of nominating another moderate, a totally lackluster campaign and Obama's almost total control of the media. The Republicans missed an opportunity to press home after the real out of touch Obama was revealed in the first debate. Romney was again coached to pander to the moderates and not appear mean spirited rather than keep on the attack when Obama was down. The threat of the race card was prominent.
Obama will eventually be found out...likely decades from now by some obscure historian or let us hope not when he attempts to set up a Marxist dictatorship.
Pretty much but no surprise at all. This is a lady that has had cases thrown out because she has forgotten to sign papers or file them properly. On most of her briefs, especially the early ones, the spelling and grammar were atrocious. She also has a tendency to jump on any hoax, even after they were revealed to be obvious hoaxes (like the Lucas Smith doc which she still presents or the 'red blanket' BC she presented before the court after the hoaxer revealed how he made it to mock birthers.)
However, of those people who do care to know who is president of the United States, probably 99.99% of them believe that Barack Obama is the president of the United States. By showing up for Obama's inauguration and by showing up for Obama's state of the union speech, most members of the Supreme Court are signaling to you that they believe that Obama is the president of the United States. The Chief Justice administered Obama's oath of office.
Like that vast majority of Americans, the Supreme Court believes that Barack Obama is the president of the United States. They may not be absolutely certain that Obama or any of our past presidents met all of the qualifications to be president or should have been president, but they do believe that all of these people were in fact presidents. They don't see anything in the Constitution that empowers them to either raise the question or attempt to answer the question as to whether any of these folks should have been president or met all of the qualifications. All of our presidents became president as the result of a political process, not a judicial process. The people and their electors decide upon the candidates' qualifications.
You don't need to accept that you believe that Obama is the president for you to accept that the Supreme Court believes that Obama is the president. The Supreme Court does believe that somehow Obama became and now is the president of the United States. That's all they need to believe and know that only the Congress can remove him from office.
And that's what the courts have been trying to tell Orly and her fans.
Don’t birthers ever bother to look up the facts before they go off half-cocked ranting about something that was simple procedure?
No, they don’t.
Here’s a hint: cert pool
You miss the point: If they have any doubt then they have no business affirming him!
They swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, not the popular vote or the electoral college or the politically expedient.
The people and their electors decide upon the candidates' qualifications.
Factually incorrect: the Constitution plainly sets the qualifications for President. -- Everyone in America could vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger and it would not change the fact that he is not qualified to be president because he is foreign-born.
Anyone can have some doubt about whether any of our presidents were constitutionally qualified. You and I do not know for certain where any of them were born or the identity of any of their parents.
What we do know:
(1) Whether qualified or not, all of our past presidents were in fact presidents of the United States, just as Obama is in fact president of the United States; and
(2) Aside from the 25th Amendment, the Constitution provides for only one legal way to remove a president from office - impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate.
The courts cannot remove a sitting president for any reason. It's not their job.
Despite the clarity of those provisions, Orly and her fans continue to berate the court for refusing to remove from office a sitting president. She has become a judicial stalker, persistently demanding that courts ignore the Constitution and confer upon themselves powers that they do not have.
By the way, in Iran, all candidates for president must be approved by a Council of Guardians. Our system is not like that. We let the people decide.
Whatever the circumstances of Obama’s Article II, Section 1 eligibility, he is the President and he can only be removed from office via impeachment or resignation. That is one reason why the Supreme Court has denied every one of 24 appeals and applications for stays or injunctions in Obama eligibility actions.
The 12th Amendment states that whoever receives a majority of the votes of the Electors “shall be the president.” At the very least, Obama’s possession of the office makes him a legally valid “de facto officer.” Every time Congress sends him a bill to sign into law or confirms his nominees, they are reinforcing his de facto officer status.
“De Facto Officer refers to an officer holding a colorable right or title to the office accompanied by possession. The lawful acts of an officer de facto, so far as the rights of third persons are concerned, when done within the scope and by the apparent authority of office, are valid and binding.
The de facto officer doctrine confers validity upon acts performed by a person acting under the color of official title even though it is later discovered that the legality of that person’s appointment or election to office is deficient.
The following is case law defining the term De Facto Officer. ‘An officer de facto is one whose acts, though not those of a lawful officer, the law, upon principles of policy and justice, will hold valid so far as they involve the interests of the public and third persons, where the duties of the office were exercised:
First, without a known appointment or election, but under such circumstances of reputation or acquiescence as were calculated to induce people, without inquiry, to submit to or invoke his action, supposing him to be the officer he assumed to be;
Second, under color of a known and valid appointment or election, but where the officer had failed to conform to some precedent requirement or condition, as to take an oath, give a bond, or the like;
Third, under color of a known election or appointment, void because the officer was not eligible, or because there was a want of power in the electing or appointing body, or by reason of some defect or irregularity in its exercise, such ineligibility, want of power, or defect being unknown to the public;
Fourth, under color of an election or appointment by or pursuant to a public unconstitutional law, before the same is adjudged to be such.’”
Everyone in America could vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger and it would not change the fact that he is not qualified to be president because he is foreign-born.
First, the American people are not going to unanimously vote for Arnold to be president. However, if he were to run for office and argue that he was actually born in the U.S. and if, after hearing the pro and con arguments about his true place of birth and qualifications, the American people decided in favor his being qualified and if he then had a majority of electors vote for him, he could become president. And, if he thus became president, his removal would require impeachment.
Count the "ifs" in that last paragraph. Try to stay in the real world. The people and their electors are allowed to consider and decide questions of qualification even if you think they sometimes make mistakes. Presumably, they will make some mistakes, but that doesn't mean the Supreme Court should disregard the Constitution and try to remove a sitting president. That is clearly the sole power of the Congress.
You are correct that the Supreme Court cannot remove a president.
But they can define "natural born citizen" once and for all.
The fear is that if the do define "natural born citizen" as a person born in the country to two citizen parents, then where does that leave Obama? It puts the onus on Congress to act or be in conflict with the Court.
Congress does not want to act on this, and the Court does not want to put Congress in that position.
If the Supreme Court were to rule that simply being born here is enough to be president, then it opens up the presidency to any anchor baby whose mother crosses the border within days of delivery, which (I believe) most constitutional scholars would agree was never the intent of the Framers. The Framers were concerned about generational security of their newly found country (see the Preamble of the Constitution), and influenced by the history of European monarchical intermarriage as diplomacy. Kings and queens were often the natives of other countries who married to settle wars.
This is what Thomas Paine wrote about in 1791 in The Rights Of Man, when he compared the United States presidency to European monarchies.
If there is any government where prerogatives might with apparent safety be entrusted to any individual, it is in the federal government of America. The president of the United States of America is elected only for four years. He is not only responsible in the general sense of the word, but a particular mode is laid down in the constitution for trying him. He cannot be elected under thirty-five years of age; and he must be a native of the country.In a comparison of these cases with the Government of England, the difference when applied to the latter amounts to an absurdity. In England the person who exercises prerogative is often a foreigner; always half a foreigner, and always married to a foreigner. He is never in full natural or political connection with the country, is not responsible for anything, and becomes of age at eighteen years; yet such a person is permitted to form foreign alliances, without even the knowledge of the nation, and to make war and peace without its consent.
But this is not all. Though such a person cannot dispose of the government in the manner of a testator, he dictates the marriage connections, which, in effect, accomplish a great part of the same end. He cannot directly bequeath half the government to Prussia, but he can form a marriage partnership that will produce almost the same thing. Under such circumstances, it is happy for England that she is not situated on the Continent, or she might, like Holland, fall under the dictatorship of Prussia. Holland, by marriage, is as effectually governed by Prussia, as if the old tyranny of bequeathing the government had been the means.
The presidency in America (or, as it is sometimes called, the executive) is the only office from which a foreigner is excluded, and in England it is the only one to which he is admitted. A foreigner cannot be a member of Parliament, but he may be what is called a king. If there is any reason for excluding foreigners, it ought to be from those offices where mischief can most be acted, and where, by uniting every bias of interest and attachment, the trust is best secured. But as nations proceed in the great business of forming constitutions, they will examine with more precision into the nature and business of that department which is called the executive. What the legislative and judicial departments are every one can see; but with respect to what, in Europe, is called the executive, as distinct from those two, it is either a political superfluity or a chaos of unknown things.
-PJ
But they can define "natural born citizen" once and for all.
The fear is that if the do define "natural born citizen" as a person born in the country to two citizen parents, then where does that leave Obama
If the Supreme Court cannot remove Obama from office, then what would be the purpose of defining "natural born citizen" at this time? Since the first Chief Justice (John Jay), the Court has made it clear that the Court's functions do not include providing "advisory opinions" just to help clarify Constitutional provisions.
Like all Americans, Thomas Paine was entitled to his own opinions.
Here was Paine's opinion of George Washington:
"Mr. Washington owed it to me on every score of private acquaintance, I will not now say, friendship; for it has some time been known by those who know him, that he has no friendships; that he is incapable of forming any; he can serve or desert a man, or a cause, with constitutional indifference; and it is this cold hermaphrodite faculty that imposed itself upon the world, and was credited for a while by enemies as by friends, for prudence, moderation and impartiality."
Here was Paine's opinion of our second president, John Adams:
"John Adams is one of those men who never contemplated the origin of government, or comprehended any thing of first principles. If he had, he might have seen, that the right to set up and establish hereditary government, never did, and never can, exist in any generation at any time whatever; that it is of the nature of treason; because it is an attempt to take away the rights of all the mirrors living at that time, and of all succeeding generations. It is of a degree beyond common treason. It is a sin against nature. The equal right of every generation is a right fixed in the nature of things. It belongs to the son when of age, as it belonged to the father before him. John Adams would himself deny the right that any former deceased generation could have to decree authoritatively a succession of governors over him, or over his children; and yet he assumes the pretended right, treasonable as it is, of acting it himself. His ignorance is his best excuse."
And, here was Paine's opinion of our first Chief Justice, John Jay:
"John Jay has said, (and this John was always the sycophant of every thing in power, from Mr. Girard in America, to Grenville in England,)—John Jay has said, that the Senate should have been appointed for life. He would then have been sure of never wanting a lucrative appointment for himself, and have had no fears about impeachment. These are the disguised traitors that call themselves Federalists."
So, Washington was a hermaphrodite incapable of forming friendships, Adams was ignorant and Jay was a disguised traitor. And, all of these opinions were expressed in just a single Tom Paine letter.
It seems to me entirely possible that the Supreme Court might not automatically defer to Thomas Paine when it comes to interpreting the Constitution.
I offer Paine's words as a contemporary of the framing of the Constitution. He wrote his comparison of the Presidency at a time when it was fresh in people's minds. I have not seen other writings (other than Jay's letter to Washington) on the intent of the natural-born clause.
I agree that Paine became a bitter man later in life. He was ostracized from society, and died alone with little acknowledgement.
I read a letter of Paine's from 1807 that is on display at the Thomas Paine House in New Rochelle, NY. In this letter, Paine pleads with Vice-President George Clinton to testify on his behalf to a local election board that refused to allow Paine to vote, claiming that he was not a citizen.
Paine wrote: "As it is a new generation that has risen up since the declaration of independence, they know nothing of what political state of the country was at the time the pamphlet Common Sense appeared; and besides this there are but few of the old standards left, and none that I know of in this city."
Clearly, he was a forgotten man in his old age, largely due to his own later behaviors. Still, that doesn't take away the value of his earlier contributions.
-PJ
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