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To: DiogenesLamp

There is no Court in the land that would attempt to undo the results of a national election and abrogate the electoral will of 70 million and then 66 million voters. The Constitution does not give Judges that power. The more conservative the judge, the less likely they will be to intervene.

U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter: “There may very well be a legitimate role for the judiciary to interpret whether the natural born citizen requirement has been satisfied in the case of a presidential candidate who has not already won the election and taken office. However, on the day that President Obama took the presidential oath and was sworn in, he became President of the United States. Any removal of him from the presidency must be accomplished through the Constitution’s mechanisms for the removal of a President, either through impeachment or the succession process set forth in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Plaintiffs attempt to subvert this grant of power to Congress by convincing the Court that it should disregard the constitutional procedures in place for the removal of a sitting president. The process for removal of a sitting president—removal for any reason—is within the province of Congress, not the courts.”—Barnett, et. al. V Obama, et. al., U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, October 29, 2009


98 posted on 03/31/2014 9:52:50 AM PDT by Nero Germanicus (PALIN/CRUZ: 2016)
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To: Nero Germanicus
There is no Court in the land that would attempt to undo the results of a national election and abrogate the electoral will of 70 million and then 66 million voters.

Whether or not an election gets "overturned" is irrelevant to the point. All the courts need do is make a determination and stop concerning themselves with the outcome.

That business of deciding law based on how they THINK things will turn out is the very opposite of the rule of law. It is law by subjective whim, not by objective meaning. The court has taken a "Let the chips fall where they may" attitude so many times in the past, (Brown v Board of Education, e.g.) that I do not find it credible that they would refrain from doing so if they wished otherwise. It is merely just another excuse for the courts not doing what they don't want to do anyway.

Furthermore, I don't want to hear about "Process" when the PROCESS is that only a "natural born citizen" is eligible for the Presidency, with the enforcement provision being the axiomatic duty of every American involved in the civil process.

99 posted on 03/31/2014 10:13:00 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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