An “Obama is ineligible” attorney isn’t as convinced about Justice Scalia’s position on natural born citizenship.
Larry Klayman wrote in World Net Daily: “Last week, I had the occasion to cross paths with “revered” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia has been for many years the darling of conservatives, a judge who they believed had the guts to enforce the Rule of Law and the Constitution in the face of corrosive influences, foreign and domestic. I took the occasion to ask him a simple question, one he would be able to answer. I asked the “constitutionalist” Scalia what he believed to be the definition of “natural born citizen,” without asking him to render an opinion on whether Obama was eligible to be president, given that Obama’s father was not a citizen of the United States at the time he claims falsely that he was born here.
Looking like a deer in the headlights and stuttering sheepishly, Justice Scalia responded, “I don’t know. Isn’t a natural born citizen a person born in this country?” I pressed on, asking “then why are there separate references to ‘citizen’ and ‘natural born citizen’ in the Constitution?” Again, Justice Scalia, pulling back out of apparent fright at having to give a straight answer, responded in the same fashion, “I don’t know.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/scalia-flummoxed-about-natural-born-citizenship/#zFrMiOi6sQfOsSV9.99
Justice Scalia had two opportunities in 2008 to grant application for stays or injunctions in Obama ineligibility related appeals. He punted both times ( Berg v Obama and Wrotnowski v Bysiewicz).
Justice Scalia has also advocated for “jus soli” to be the requirement for being natural born in oral arguments in Tuan Anh Nguyen v. INS (No. 99-2071).
Scalia was honestly (and conservatively) responding that he hadn’t performed the necessary comprehensive legal research to arrive at a proper conclusion.
“I don’t know” doesn’t sound like support for “jus soli” to me.
Failure to grant injunctions on eligibility cases could be based on a long list of legal technicalities, such as lack of jurisdiction, lack of standing, lack of remedy, issue is moot, etc., all of which had been the basis for a lower court dismissal prior to reaching SCOTUS.
And none of the cases Scalia and SCOTUS refused to hear came after a trial on the merits that included full discovery of the contemporaneous evidence and witness and document custodian testimony with cross-examination.
Just as the Liar-in-chief has run the most dishonest, opaque administration ever, Barry legal team has obstructed transparency at every opportunity. An honest, ethical patriot with nothing to hide and welcoming the chance to remove all doubts about his eligibility would have:
1. signed legal releases and insisted on forensic inspection and validation by independent experts of all of his HI birth vital records and hospital records
2. authorized release and validation of all INS and passport records
3. authorized release and validation of his social security file
4. authorized release and validation of his selective service file
5. authorized release and validation of his college and financial aid applications
Barry has evaded and stonewalled all of the above showing anyone not invested in his usurpation that he is most likely ineligible.