This would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. What a bunch of losers at justia.
So, they admit they are worthless tabloid site and nobody should use them. That’s cool.
Edge, it would be hard to call them losers. They succeeded in hiding citations which many of those who prefer originalism to a living Constitution would have properly interpreted as references to precedence. They know that the lawyers with seven figure salaries at big law firms would keep quiet because the work they could lose over 8 years of Obama could put them out of business, or worse! They knew that lawyers at prestigious law schools would keep quiet because their universities are almost all suffering financially, and depend upon federal grants (the same reason so many scientists take no position around the swindle called cap-and-trade associated with the religious belief in man-made global worming. Justia kept the ordinary intelligent citizen who had never questioned the requirements for presidential eligibility, from following the trail left by dozens of citations to what the court considered precedence on citizenship and natural born citizenship, Minor v. Happersett.
Justia accomplished what they initially set out to do - hide the legal signposts while the misinformation directorate pointed in other tantalizing directions, to trips to Pakistan, mixed stories and dates about where Stanley Ann (if there even was a Stanley Ann) was and when, and may even have planted multiple social security numbers. They hid school records which might confirm Fulbright Scholarships provided to foreign students, to records confirming ghost-like attendance at Columbia (where no classmates ever saw him, no photo in yearbooks). This is very similar to what Chester Arthur did, to distract from Chester's father having been an alien, like Obama’s, when Chester was born. But Obama had already written about his father, and couldn't change that story, true or not, so soon before an election.
Justia hid the true legal issue from individuals who, had they the truth, would have circumvented “State-Run Media” by using the Internet. Justia, of course, is closly associated with Google, Google of the Arab/Nazi Spring, and Google dutifully elevated pointers to justia to the top of the stack when generating responses to queries referring to natural born citizenship.
Justia did their job well. Boalt Professor of legal information Bob Berring pointed out at a Center for American Progress colloquium hosted by Soros-funded Carl Malamud;s “law.gov”, with Justia’s CEO Tim Stanley in the front row warned that all his students must assess the accuracy of cases hosted at the free sites, the two biggest of which were founded by Tim Stanley, Justia and Findlaw. Justia did its job well and we are five trillion dollars deeper in dept as a result.
Note too that our legal conservative pundits have been worthless, rather like our Republican legislators, who vetted McCain's eligibility for the presidency five times, but refused to vet the Democrat nominee. And yes, they never found McCain eligible, but that didn't stop them. The most they did was to say, in Senate Res 511, Apr 2008, sponsored by die-hard constitutional originalist and conservative, Claire McCaskill and her conservative legal scholar, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pat Leahy. that they all thought McCain should be considered eligible because his parents, unlike Obama’s, were both citizens when he was born.
The fix was in long ago. If any of us had carefully read the Constitution before Obama inspired a resurgence of interest in our founders and framers, as soon as “experts” announced “Because the Constitution nowhere defines the term natural born citizen...” we would have known where to look. Try to find any term defined in the Constitution. Madison told us that defining terms in the Constitution was both impractical, and unwise, because the meanings of words are always changing. The Constitution was written with the explicit intention that words be interpreted in the common language at the time of its framers, as Chief Justice Morrison Waite so clearly explained in his careful construction of Minor v. Happersett, which he clearly understood to be establishing precedence - stare decisis. Only that way would preserve the meaning which was assumed to be eternal, only to be changed explicitly by amendment or a constitutional congress.