He didn’t challenge the authority of POTUS. He challenged whether combat orders to Afghanistan were authorized by a Constitutional Commander in Chief as required by the Authorization to Use Force. The only thing that would make those orders lawful is if they were authorized by a Constitutional Commander in Chief. If Obama was not eligible to be the Commander in Chief then there was nobody in a position who could have lawfully ordered troops to Afghanistan under the Authorization to Use Force. Hence, all orders involving the movement of troops to Afghanistan would be unlawful.
Judge Denise Lind said “we don’t need no steenkin’ President to authorize combat operations in foreign countries.”
Sorry, ongoing oerations and support there of predating the swearing in of Barack Obama make his course of action as someone earlier stated,... ridiculous.
The questions he was asking perhaps should have been asked and answered but not in the manner or venue he chose.