Posted on 11/12/2008 4:03:54 AM PST by solfour
After being denied, dismissed and otherwise turned back in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, and the New Jersey Supreme Court, retired lawyer and professional poker player Leo Donofrio is taking the ultimate gamble and bringing his eligibility-related action before the United States Supreme Court. Donofrio, however, alleges that he has already been dealt a poor hand.
THE CASE
In his action filed against New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, Donofrio contends that Wells has not fulfilled her duty as Secretary of State to independently verify the constitutional qualifications of the presidential candidates before placing them on the ballot in the Garden State. Specifically, Donofrio notes in the brief accompanying the Application for Emergency Stay filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Wells was required by N.J.S.A. 19:13-22 to make a statement in which she certifies and signs off on the names of the candidates on the ballots. The statute, in relevant part with emphasis added:
The Secretary of State, not later than eighty-six days before any election whereat any candidates nominated in any direct petition or primary certificate of nomination or State convention certificate filed with him are to be voted for, shall make and certify, under his hand and seal of office, and forward to the clerks of the several counties of the State a statement of all such candidates for whom the voters within such county may be by law entitled to vote at such election.
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Not according to the Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of the Land.
If I went overseas with my pregnant wife and she delivered my child in Hong Kong, I most likely will announce the birth in my hometown where my family and friends live back in the US. A newspaper announcement is not legal proof that you were born in the newspaper’s hometown. Birth certificat or a state copy of the birth certificate is the best document. BO has refused to do this and rather spend money on expensive lawyers to fight it. Strange reaction on his part, unless it is a campaign trap for McCain. Now the election is over, let us see how BO reacts to these suits.
Not until they are sworn in. This was addressed on another thread.
U.S. Constitution, Amendment 20, Section 3:
Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
“Precedent is my biggest concern. Obviously some states aren’t concerned that Calero could never hold office yet let him remain on their ballots. If we allow Obama to hold office and only later find that he was ineligible, it’s another dangerous precedent.
I think we’re being set up. It sure looks to me like Jenny Granholm is being groomed for a future run at the white house. She was Biden’s sparring partner for debate and she’s on Obama’s economic transition team. It’s how I would do it if I wanted to get people used to the idea of foreign born presidents.
Get one on the ballot, get one elected, then openly put one from an innocuous nation like Canada on the ballot.”
I missed your post earlier. You hit the nail on the head and what I’ve been trying to get people to understand. If we allow Obama to become president without him showing his birth certificate and it turns out he was never eligible to qualify to become president....we are setting a precedent that will never die! The Constitution will mean nothing anymore...nothing!
bookmarking Calero
BUMP!!!
MilspecRob;But false
Actually it's not false. Obama admitted dual citizenship on his website but claims his Kenyan citizenship expired Aug. 4, 1982
Good evening bump
Ping regarding Obama’s Vault Copy of Birth Certificate.
Recall he went to see his White Folk Grandmother with his lawyers in tow right before she died. He got her safety deposit box key and removed all contents that would infer he was adopted in Indonesia and never changed his name legally to Obama. And is still an Indonesian Citizen.
But who cares? He always wanted to be a President.
I’d settle for President Clinton if the USSC finds that Obama is not constitutionally qualified to be president, although I don’t know how such a revelation would actually change things.
Does anyone know if Obama’s sister’s Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth shows that she was born in Hawaii, because it was my understanding that she admitted to having been born in Indonesia?
I have no knowledge of her COLB. I’ll ping Calpernia as she may have some info or remember seeing something on it?
I believe it was TechDude that introduced to all of us Maya’s COLB.
TechDude was a plant to discredite our freeper Polarik. Therefore, I would just put Maya’s COLB up on a shelf someplace until it is independently verified that Maya’s COLB was real.
Thanks for the clarification, Calpernia. Exactly whose COLB was used for the forgery is irrelevant, because the forger worked from a "not-so-hit" image copy of one, and not from the actual paper COLB.
IMHO, I seriously doubt that this image copy was scanned from Maya's COLB.
First of all, the Obama COLB image was "Frankensteined" from more than one cOLB image. As I mentioned previously, the border was constructed separately from a 2007 COLB. If Maya had a real 2007 cOLB, then all that she would have contributed was an image from which the only border was copied and pasted (most likely because the rest of the image was not usable or suitable for copying.
Don’t use the word ‘sure’ ... if the challenges are dismissed on ‘no standing to challenge’ then there will be no standing upon which to challenge the illiegitimate president or any of his illicit activities such as falsely swearing or violation of oaths. The Constitution means nothing to Barack Obama. Get ready for power to be exhibited in all the rawest ways.
[HINT: extorting = to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power ]
My point is this. Berg’s suit got dismissed because he didn’t meet one of the standard tests for who has standing. His injury was too vague and tenuous, etc. When Obama signs a tax increase into law, for example, that is no longer going to be a problem. Millions of people will have been very clearly damaged by an act of dubious constitutionality because Obama is ineligible to sign it.
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