Posted on 11/20/2008 11:46:54 PM PST by STARWISE
A case that challenges President-elect Barack Obama's name on the 2008 election ballot citing questions over his citizenship has been scheduled for a "conference" at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Conferences are private meetings of the justices at which they review cases and decide which ones to accept for formal review.
This case is set for a conference Dec. 5, just 10 days before the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to make formal the election of Obama as the nation's next president.
The Supreme Court's website listed the date for the case brought by Leo C. Donofrio against Nina Wells, the secretary of state in New Jersey, over not only Obama's name on the 2008 election ballot but those of two others, Sen. John McCain and Roger Calero.
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Leo’s case has a claim where he does not even need the BC/COLB. Obama admitted he was a British citizen at birth because of his dad. His father was from Kenya then Zanazibar run by Britain. This alone disqualifies Obama.
Leo put in multiple claims like a good attorney should.
Just yesterday, my SIL went to DMV to get her license in the state where they now live. She’d requested a certified COLB from birth state, and didn’t really look at it when she got it. The DMV chick noticed that the first name on the COLB is different than what she’s always been called, what’s on her SS card, etc. (Something like “Lorraine” vs. “Lorena”.) No new license.
I guess now she either has to officially change her name to what she’s always been called, or do something to have her birth certificate revised. Her parents aren’t living, so she can’t ask them WTF?
.......The fact that this matter is going to “conference” dooms it.....
I can understand the thought but do not agree.
This is a knotty constitutional issue and involves three individuals. Were it Obama alone, it might be dropped, but since there are three separate sets of facts to be sorted, they must take it up.
If they do not, there is a precedent of Calero which means Arnold can run.
.......The fact that this matter is going to “conference” dooms it.....
I can understand the thought but do not agree.
This is a knotty constitutional issue and involves three individuals. Were it Obama alone, it might be dropped, but since there are three separate sets of facts to be sorted, they must take it up.
If they do not, there is a precedent of Calero which means Arnold can run.
Well, it is slowly getting out...being discussed by Mancow this morning who has a big non-political radio audience of a few million (who will hear of this for the first time). Eventually, everyone will have heard of it except the Mainstream Media, who will then have to take timeout from their 24/7 ObamaGush, to say something, if only to knock it down.
Only Obama moonbats will go ballistic. If the Court rejects the case or finds in favor of Obama there will be no signficant conservative backlash, and any backlash that does occur will be reserved and nowhere near what could be considered moonbat madness. Such insanity is nearly always attached to the left.
I wonder why SCOTUSblog doesn’t have any mention of the scheduled conference. At least I can’t find one.
what happens if they don’t take the case, and then proof of Kenyan birth comes out later?
Can you say breach of responsibility?
Bad news: They will riot.
Good News: They invariably burn down their own houses.
Exactly. If this gets through without Obama presenting his evidence, Arnold the Gubernator can run for President just by asserting he's eligible. No one would have standing to challenge him.
It would be great if you can find a source for that! Very germane to the current discussion.
This is not a case where the justices have to agonize over their decisions. The remedy is simple compared to things like affirmative action. They simply send an order back to the state(s) to do ask for some paperwork, then wash their hands. It will be the state politicians who have to take the heat ... and, next case (or lunch).
Indeed, there is a Nicaraguan non-citizen (Roger Calero) who runs for POTUS every election as a World Socialist or something. He gets on some state ballots, not on others, and he has a “proxy” stand in in other states. He cannot become president, but can run (bizarre, but he is a leftist after all).
On the other hand, thinking ahead to 2012, I may talk my wife into running. Rumor has it, she was born overseas to non-citizens and came here and married me and then supposedly got her citizenship through naturalization.....but those are all "personal documents" so you'll never know for certain why she speaks with an accent.
I will see if I can find it...
Read Leo’s case and the Constitution and get back to me on the British citizenship.
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