Why is that hard to understand? From my perspective, The Governor is ignorant of the Federal issue involved, and places the state laws of her state in higher regard. In fact, it is not the Governor's job to insure compliance with Article II for an Election. That job falls to each State's election officials, who are ALSO incredibly ignorant of their responsibility in this regard. The Governor's job *IS* to enforce the laws of their state. If according to the laws of their state they are supposed to accept whatever the bureaucracy asserts, then that's what they will do.
All of this belies the point of why we allow the Tail of Hawaiian bureaucracy to wag the Dog of American Constitutional law!
“Why is that hard to understand? From my perspective, The Governor is ignorant of the Federal issue involved, and places the state laws of her state in higher regard. In fact, it is not the Governor’s job to insure compliance with Article II for an Election. That job falls to each State’s election officials, who are ALSO incredibly ignorant of their responsibility in this regard. The Governor’s job *IS* to enforce the laws of their state. If according to the laws of their state they are supposed to accept whatever the bureaucracy asserts, then that’s what they will do.
All of this belies the point of why we allow the Tail of Hawaiian bureaucracy to wag the Dog of American Constitutional law!”
I know of no court in any state nor any federal court which has ruled that state officials in any state failed to uphold state or federal law with regard to Article II, Section 1 eligibility.
Constitution Party candidate Alan Keyes sued Governor Lingle and Hawaii’s Chief Elections Official, Kevin Cronin in Keyes v Lingle and made the argument that Obama’s Hawaii COLB was forged. He included an affidivit with a forensic analysis of the COLB but the Hawaii courts dismissed the lawsuit.
Leo Donofrio also made that claim in New Jersey and in Connecticut and appeals went all the way to the US Supreme Court (Donofrio v Wells (NJ) and Wrotnowski v Bysiewicz (CN)). Obama eligibility attorney Gary Kreep made the same argument in California in “Keyes v Bowen” which went all the way to the US Supreme Court but was rejected.