Obama has no proper understanding of our legal system. In France, lawyers are are scholars, because the civil law is structured in a way that allows a lawyer to decide on the basis of the facts at hand what the law is, with the court being decisive in ambivalent cases. But here, things are quite different, and a legal education prepares a person to be an adversary rather than a judge. Obama seems to think that what he thinks is law is in fact law. Dangerous in an office with so much power.
Obama has no proper understanding of our legal system. In France, lawyers are are scholars, because the civil law is structured in a way that allows a lawyer to decide on the basis of the facts at hand what the law is, with the court being decisive in ambivalent cases. But here, things are quite different, and a legal education prepares a person to be an adversary rather than a judge. Obama seems to think that what he thinks is law is in fact law. Dangerous in an office with so much power.
If the plaintiffs had prevailed in this lawsuit, it is highly likely that other states would have invalidated Obama’s electoral college votes but the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that Obama was eligible to receive those votes. They said: “Based upon the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by [the Supreme Court of the United States in their 1898 decision in the case of U.S. v.] Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the borders of the United States are “natural born Citizens” for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents. Just as a person “born within the British dominions [was] a natural-born British subject” at the time of the framing of the U.S. Constitution, so too were those “born in the allegiance of the United States natural-born citizens.”—Indiana Court of Appeals, “Ankeny et. al. v The Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels,” Nov. 12, 2009.
This suit was appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court which refused to hear it.