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1 posted on 11/19/2012 2:12:07 PM PST by KheSanh
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To: KheSanh

Exercises in futility are so much fun.


2 posted on 11/19/2012 2:13:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: KheSanh

Better late than never, I suppose, but futile.

Barack Obama’s election and subsequent reelection have forever changed the meaning of the term “natural born”.


3 posted on 11/19/2012 2:16:37 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (2 Corinthians 4:8)
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We sure need some here.
FReepathon Day 50!

4 posted on 11/19/2012 2:19:24 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: KheSanh

There is no need for another stupid petition!!!

Congress itself, LED BY THE DEMOCRATS defined it in TOTAL in 2008 when they held a hearing on John McCain’s eligibility.

In that full congressional hearing, BOTH John McCain’s birthplace was examined, as well as the citizenship of BOTH his parents.

The Democrats ALREADY settled this for us!

Why are we not forcing Boehner to apply the same congressional hearing to Obama that was applied to McCain???

It would be LIGHTS OUT for Obama, and a reset back to the beginning of this constitutional crisis in 2008.


5 posted on 11/19/2012 2:21:00 PM PST by Safrguns
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Maybe if some of the Billionaires who pumped mega millions into Romney campaign, could have better spent revealing who Obama really is.

Oops forgot, he is a Nice man with a Nice smile, and we have nothing to fear from him. It is that Evil Rush Limbaugh that we must fear.

7 posted on 11/19/2012 2:24:56 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: KheSanh
"A petition asking the Supreme Court to give a clear concise definition of the term "Natural Born Citizen".

My guess on SCOTUS decision:

"Whatever Obama wants it to be."

(majority opinion delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts)

9 posted on 11/19/2012 2:38:02 PM PST by Zman516
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To: KheSanh

Going by the U.S. Constitution there has only ever been three types of U.S. citizen.

Those who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.

Those who are naturalized as U.S. citizens.

Those who are natural born citizens.


10 posted on 11/19/2012 2:41:37 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: KheSanh
The Supreme Court does not give advisory opinions. Never has.

Anyone who signs this "petition" is simply attesting to his/her ignorance of that fact.

11 posted on 11/19/2012 2:42:16 PM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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King Obama and his communists empire are in control of this Country. The dysfunctional Republicans will never challenge the King.
17 posted on 11/19/2012 3:33:41 PM PST by Logical me
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To: KheSanh

Waste of time. The SCOTUS answered this question in the late 19th century.


19 posted on 11/19/2012 3:49:04 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: KheSanh
If this part of the constitution was in the US code we may of had a chance in court against Obama. It wasn't thus technically it wasn't a law.

Just a suggestion for a petition

20 posted on 11/19/2012 3:50:46 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: KheSanh

I predict that Vladimir Putin will be the Democrat’s 2016 nominee.


21 posted on 11/19/2012 4:12:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: KheSanh

There’s a very easy answer to that question - you don’t have standing.....


22 posted on 11/19/2012 4:20:03 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: KheSanh
In the unlikely event SCOTUS takes up this challenge, does anyone truly believe they wouldn't come up with a 9-0 decision?

Of course, then birthers would just cry about judicial activism.

26 posted on 11/19/2012 5:07:21 PM PST by Drew68
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That is a dumb move, even if it is successful. The Current Supreme Court (for that matter, the entire current judiciary) are ill suited to define what is a "natural born citizen." They are thoroughly polluted with misinterpreted precedent, and so far disconnected with original intent that they cannot help but make a wrong decision. (Such as, "Anchor babies are natural born citizens.")

Years ago, people were always urging the NRA to push court cases that would get the court to affirm the Second Amendment. The NRA always balked at this because they were afraid that with the current (at the time) makeup of the court, the decision was very likely to go against them. They intentionally bided their time until the makeup of the court indicated that the time was ripe to take them a defining case.

The United States was gifted with such a case in the guise of McDonald v. Chicago. The court ruled that the second amendment meant the right to own and carry a gun WAS an individual right. That's how it's done, people!

Leave the "natural born citizen" case alone until the public can be educated about the correct meaning of "natural citizen." The courts will eventually follow.

31 posted on 11/19/2012 6:20:01 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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I think I know what they’ll say.

A child who is born by passing through the birth canal of the mother is natural-born. One born by C-Section is not./Sarc!


35 posted on 11/19/2012 6:59:55 PM PST by Tucker39
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The Supreme Court already gave a definitive and exclusive definition of NBC in Minor v. Happersett: all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens. It rejected a 14th amendment argument creating a material distinction between 14th amendment birth citizenship and Article II natural-born citizenship.


40 posted on 11/19/2012 7:33:26 PM PST by edge919
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To: KheSanh

obumpa


43 posted on 11/19/2012 9:31:21 PM PST by Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)
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To: KheSanh

Justice Scalia has already said not to depend on the current court to uphold the Constitution. Since we saw what they have done to several key constitutional issues in the past few years, I think we can count on his statement.


148 posted on 11/21/2012 10:03:00 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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