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DOJ to judge: dump birthers' suit
Politico ^ | 09/07/2009 | Josh Gerstein

Posted on 09/07/2009 6:09:15 AM PDT by Free America52

The Justice Department is urging a federal court to toss out a lawsuit in which prominent birthers' attorney Orly Taitz is challenging President Barack Obama's Constitutional qualifications to be president.

In a motion filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., government lawyers did not directly rebut the conspiracy theory Taitz propounds that Obama was not born in Hawaii as he claims and as asserted by Hawaiian officials as well as contemporary newspaper birth notices. Instead, the federal attorneys argued that the suit is inherently flawed because such disputes can't be resolved in court and because the dozens of plaintiffs can't show they are directly injured by Obama's presence in office.

"It is clear, from the text of the Constitution, and the relevant statutory law implementing the Constitution’s textual commitments, that challenges to the qualifications of a candidate for President can, in the first instance, be presented to the voting public before the election, and, once the election is over, can be raised as objections as the electoral votes are counted in the Congress," Assistant United States Attorneys Roger West and David DeJute wrote. "Therefore, challenges such as those purportedly raised in this case are committed, under the Constitution, to the electors, and to the Legislative branch."

The birthers' suit claims that Obama is a citizen of Indonesia and "possibly still citizen of Kenya, usurping the position of the President of the United States of America and the Commander-in-Chief.”

Lieutenant Jason Freese and some other plaintiffs in the case claim they have a real injury because they are serving in the military commander by Obama, the alleged usurper. However, West and DeJute say that argument is too speculative.

"The injuries alleged by Plaintiff Freese and the other military Plaintiffs herein, are not particularized as to them, but, rather, would be shared by all members of the military and is an inadequate basis on which to establish standing," the government lawyers wrote.

Another plaintiff in the suit, Alan Keyes, is a three-time, longshot presidential candidate who ran most recently in 2008. Yet another is Gail Lightfoot, an ultra-longshot vice presidential candidate in 2008. The DOJ argues that they were not directly aggrieved by Obama's election because they never had a mathematical chance of winning.

"The [lawsuit] does not allege, nor could it allege, that any of these Plaintiffs were even on the ballot in enough states in the year 2008 to gain the requisite 270 electoral votes to win the Presidential election," the motion states.

The Justice Department brief takes a few shots at the wackiness of the birthers, accusing them of trafficking in "innuendo" and advancing "a variety of vaguely-defined claims purportedly related to a hodgepodge of constitutional provisions, civil and criminal statutes, and the Freedom of Information Act."

Those arguments notwithstanding, the DOJ lawyers were pretty kind to the birthers and to Taitz, since the filings in the case are replete with spelling errors, among others. Taitz submitted another purported foreign birth certificate for Obama last week in a filing labeled, "Kenian Hospital Birth Certificate for Barack Obama."

The case is set for a hearing Tuesday morning before Judge David Carter. There's a strong chance the session will devolve into something of a sideshow since a couple of plaintiffs in the case are now in a dispute with Taitz and have sought to bring in a different attorney to represent them in the case.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; bhofascism; birthcertificate; birther; birthers; certifigate; doj; judgedavidcarter; kenya; lawsuit; liberalfascism; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamatruthfile; uksubject
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To: Frantzie

“Orly needs to get someone to proof read her filings.”

What has spelling have to do with it?


21 posted on 09/07/2009 6:38:44 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: Free America52
It can't be denied that Alan Keyes has standing since he was a presidential candidate alongside zero.

"Here is the first part of a video featuring an interview I did some time ago explaining the thinking behind my participation in a lawsuit seeking the evidence needed to resolve the issue of Obama's constitutional eligibility for the Presidency." - Alan Keyes

22 posted on 09/07/2009 6:41:15 AM PDT by Bill_o'Rights
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To: Free America52

In my limited legal experience, a motion to dismiss is standard MO.


23 posted on 09/07/2009 6:45:52 AM PDT by sbMKE
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To: dalereed; Frantzie

It’s “proofread.” One word.


24 posted on 09/07/2009 6:46:50 AM PDT by sbMKE
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To: Free America52

No proof of harm? A bank book or a brokerage statement should be proof enough. Next year, 1040 tax tables ought to do it as well.


25 posted on 09/07/2009 6:48:50 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: Free America52

Yeah big shocker. Why would we expect anything less from this usurper fraud...


26 posted on 09/07/2009 6:51:40 AM PDT by thecraw (Follower of Jesus by choice, American by the grace of God. Oh yeah, a proud Birther too!)
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To: Free America52
Criminal Obama is not POTUS. He's a private citizen unlawfully holding the office of POTUS. (The office has been vacant since January 20th).

Every April 15th the federal government collects tax receipts.

This is done under direction of Criminal Obama as CEO.

As he's not lawfully President this is how many counts of theft from one private citizen by another private citizen?

More to the point - can anybody explain how Criminal Obama’s taking tax revenue is NOT an individual injury?

Just wondering.

27 posted on 09/07/2009 6:51:57 AM PDT by Art II Sec 1
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To: ElayneJ
"There’s a law governing qualifications for president but no way to enforce that law?"

I'm going to post this so that EVERYONE who thinks we are powerless to do something about this understands how best to go about it. We need to find the legal remedy enabling us to charge our representatives with disobeying their oaths of office and start removing them one by one. Here is the case.

Exhibit A, The Twentieth Amendment, Section 3 reads as follows:

" ”3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

Exhibit B U. S. Code, CITE: 3USC19

TITLE 3--THE PRESIDENT, CHAPTER 1- PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES

Sec. 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act

”(a)(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President. “

Exhibit C: U. S. Constitution, Article Six Oath of Office for elected officials:

” The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

Exhibit D: The Electoral Vote Counting Act of 1877:

The process currently provides that someone “challenge” the electoral votes during a short, specified time frame while the Electoral College votes are opened and tabulated. This process does not cover challenges to "eligibility" qualifications. In fact, if this act pretends to do so in the manner in which it prescribes, it is unconstitutional. Any act of this sort that does not require that qualifications be presented by the President elect serves to undercut the provisions in the Constitution itself. No act that does not support the Constitution is constitutional. In order to change the requirements of the Twentieth amendment, one would need to pass another amendment. An “Act” doesn’t cut the mustard.

The portion in bold stating “or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify” in section three is particularly interesting in that it plainly seems to infer that a “qualification” of some sort must be made in order to serve as President. Certainly, one cannot argue that it does not require a qualification process for one to “qualify”. To infer that the lack of a “specified” qualification process means that stated eligibility “qualifications” for the office of president can be ignored is fallacious. The wording of this passage in the twentieth amendment clearly infers that a qualification is required, regardless of how this is done.

There is only one set of qualifications listed anywhere in the Constitution that are not health related and they are listed in Article two, section one.

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

To satisfy meeting the requirement of the twentieth amendment to “qualify”, a president elect must present evidence that he meets it’s requirements for eligibility to serve. This means that a proper birth certificate HAD to be presented by the president elect in order to serve as president. In fact, without establishing whether or not the President elect is "qualified", Congress would not know whether or not to step in and name a temporary replacement as the Amendment requires. Certainly, this means that the proof of "qualifications" must be presented to Congress.

If this was done, where is that certificate and to whom was it presented? If this was done, why would we not have the right to verify and inspect it under the freedom of information act?

If it was NOT done, then under the provisions of the twentieth amendment, Barrack Obama has “failed to qualify” and should not be serving as president of the United States of America.

Based upon the above, I conclude that:

1. We currently have a vacancy at President because no one has yet “qualified” as required in the Twentieth amendment. The terms "The President elect shall have failed to qualify" clearly places this burden upon the President elect and not on someone raising their hand in objection.

2. Anyone serving in Congress (see “Congress” in bold in Exhibit A), or anyone who is currently serving under the oath of office in Article six has "standing" and can DEMAND that their oaths be met by receiving proper “qualifying” documentation from Mr. Obama. This charade at the time of counting the Electoral College votes does not limit their ability to do so at any time they so choose. The very fact that they are duty-bound by oath to "support" the Constitution REQUIRES them to respond to any and all attacks against it. No judge can deny any of them the standing to do so. It would ask them to break the law in their effort to enforce the law.

3. We need to start pressing legal charges against all of our local representatives and senators covered by the oath of office in Article six for disobeying their oaths to support the Constitution as it pertains to the language of section three of the Twentieth amendment. Put PRESSURE on them to represent the document that gives them their authority in the first place. We are looking into how best to do this down here. We all should be looking into this approach. NOW.

28 posted on 09/07/2009 6:53:19 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: wintertime
Why are **government** lawyers involved. Please note that plural. LawyerSSSS! Why should the American taxpayer being paying for Obama’s defense?

The president gets sued all the time. When the suit involves his duties as president then the Justice Department acts in his defense.

29 posted on 09/07/2009 7:00:51 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: ElayneJ
There’s a law governing qualifications for president but no way to enforce that law?

That pretty much sums it up. One would hope that would change before the 2012 election.

30 posted on 09/07/2009 7:02:05 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Free America52

So the DOJ won’t prosecute Black Panthers who intimidate voters with nightsticks, but WILL protect a president from the necessity of satisfying constitutional requirements. Ain’t it great to live in a formerly free country??!!


31 posted on 09/07/2009 7:03:19 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Bill_o'Rights
It can't be denied that Alan Keyes has standing since he was a presidential candidate alongside zero.

Watch them.

32 posted on 09/07/2009 7:05:08 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: ElayneJ

What about the Constitution being harmed or injured?


33 posted on 09/07/2009 7:05:19 AM PDT by kabar
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To: GBA

Even though “birthers” continue to be dismissed as nuts, the question remains, Why the secrecy? It certainly ought to be up to the president to prove that he is eligible for the job, not for the people to have to dig up the evidence that he isn’t. Even an birth certificate that proved O was born in the USA wouldn’t clear up all the questions about his citizenship, passports, etc. Time for him to live up to his “transparency” claim, or resign.


34 posted on 09/07/2009 7:05:40 AM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion)
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To: sbMKE

yep - but, prior to this DOJ involvement, O has used PRIVATE attys (big guns, but private) and NOW the DOJ is stepping in? The fire is about to FLASH!


35 posted on 09/07/2009 7:08:56 AM PDT by RebelTXRose
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To: Free America52
Why does the DOJ want to drop the lawsuit before it gets to court?

Damn good question. If there was nothing there, why would they waste the time and resources to fight it even before it gets to court?

he DOJ doth protest too much, methinks.

36 posted on 09/07/2009 7:10:44 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Free America52
Instead, the federal attorneys argued that the suit is inherently flawed because such disputes can't be resolved in court and because the dozens of plaintiffs can't show they are directly injured by Obama's presence in office.

One can argue strategy, but this seems to me to be a very odd one.

Why not simply produce all of the vital records from Hawaii, if those exist, and simply quash the questions about the Kenyan Clown's birthplace?

37 posted on 09/07/2009 7:13:26 AM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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To: Non-Sequitur
The president gets sued all the time. When the suit involves his duties as president then the Justice Department acts in his defense.

But this is NOT a suit about what he has done as President; this is a suit about his qualification to BE President. He is not who he purports to be.
Suppose an individual were to be an Impostor, posing as Pres. BO, having knocked off the Original. If someone discovered that and sought to have the court remove the Impostor from office, would you expect DOJ to defend him? This is no different, IMO.

38 posted on 09/07/2009 7:15:14 AM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Using that logic, if Osama bin Laden or Hugo Chavez were to pull a Hussein and usurp high office in America and deliberately run the country into the ground, no American would have any standing to sue and show how they’ve been greatly harmed by it.

The audacity to say that no one has standing is the equivalent of saying “I hate America.” But you already knew that. ALL Americans have standing. It’s still We The People, right?

The only way you Obama worshipers can justify anything is by pretending the Constitution doesn’t exist and by perpetually raising your middle finger at the American people.


39 posted on 09/07/2009 7:18:58 AM PDT by LWEpatriot (Constitution Derangement Syndrome is the prerequisite for accepting Hussein as president)
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To: Free America52
"Therefore, challenges such as those purportedly raised in this case are committed, under the Constitution, to the electors, and to the Legislative branch."

And the people of the United States are to have no voice at all?

40 posted on 09/07/2009 7:19:14 AM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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