Posted on 12/09/2008 8:11:36 PM PST by ckilmer
December 09, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
The Obama citizenship lawsuits aren't over.
The Supreme Court will consider yet another application this Friday, December 12, in a Connecticut case called Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz, which seeks to stay Obama's election with the assertion that he's not a "natural born citizen."
While other lawsuits have (without evidence) cast doubt on Obama's birth certificate, this one is more creative: It claims that courts have, for more than a century, been misunderstanding the definition of "natural born citizen," and that if you have a foreign father, you aren't one.
A corrolary of this ... unusual reading of the law appears to be that President Chester Arthur was illegitimate too.
A sample of the logic from the plaintiff's blog: "It must now be questioned whether the relationship between Chester Arthur and Justice Gray was influenced by Arthur’s eligibility problems and whether those issues effected Gray’s opinion and vote in Wong Kim Ark."
Got that?
(There's also been some speculation on whether the fact that Antonin Scalia distributed this case to his fellow justices for Friday's conference means anything; Southwestern Law School professor Ken Williams, who has filed for his share of stays in death penalty cases, says not -- that in fact, Scalia's move was routine. Williams also suggests the courts start imposing penalties for "frivolous" citizenship litigation.)
This applications is expected, like the last, and most such applications, to be rejected.
Just like when William F Buckley fought to purge the John Birch society folks from the mainstream conservative movement, I think it’s time to purge the birth certificate truthers from today’s conservative movement.
Direct your energy elsewhere folks!
No, Ben. We know you’re in the tank for Obama, but that’s not what the suit says.
It says that Chester Arthur lied about his citizenship, and therefore that the court should not rely on his appointee, Justice Gray, as a precedent in deciding the matter of natural born citizenship, since Gray had a conflict of interest.
St. Louis Conservative
Since Sep 30, 2008
How’s the weather at Obama HQ in Chicago? What kind of laptop did they issue you? Keep us up-to-date on that Civilian Defense Force thingy, too, will you?
(sigh).
Wow, I didn’t know they put you in charge.
I never get those memos.
This will work out soon enough. Calling people who ask a simple question of the one, “Truthers” is more like an Obambi truth squad tactic. This ain’t no SR-71 October surprise fantasy or 9-11 denial. Just produce the BC. Pretty basic.
So, until the College of Electors vote, all those who tell us to shut up can pound sand.
No, it’s just like that *folks*.
Purges are for Democrats.
In not so nice terms, go crap up your own rope. Just because we desire to see to it that another Chester Arthur presidency does not occur is not really any of your damned business. Buzz off, sh!tfly.
You sound like a RINO or Obot. I suggest you learn the law of the cases first before you engage in an ignorant ramble. Ben Smith of Politico is a Dem. These cases are about defending the Constitution.
Another crap article by Politico. I think Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Roberts actually care about the Constitution and will give Leo and Cort a full hearing.
LOL! Love it.
I won’t rip you a new one over your comment, I do understand, because sometimes it does appear like distraction, but I personally want to know the truth. If the False Messiah wanted to get this issue settled once and for all, he’d tell the truth and let us see the ACTUAL document. His behavior up to this point has all the earmarks of somebody covering up a massive fraud. And his entire candidacy was a fraud and farce. The most unqualified and least-known individual ever deliberately coronated as President.
SCOTUS seems, so far, apparently terrified to even touch the issue, justifying it that the “people” get to decide the President (ironic, since the people don’t even KNOW who or what he is or seen actual legitimate documentation of his birth or even his religious affiliation), I guess the Constitution isn’t worth the toilet paper it’s printed on.
I was looking at a situation of residency long ago in a Gubernatorial race in North Dakota back in 1934. Thomas H. Moodie, a Democrat, who won that race was discovered not to have met legal residency requirements and he was promptly removed from office shortly after being sworn in. The rule of law prevailed there, not “democracy,” and this is the key point here. Are we to allow “democracy” to win, or the rule of law ?
NO. We put a line in the sand NOW and we defend it to the death. The line is the Constitution and we will not back down. The GOP and some conservatives back down against the Obots. Hillary’s caucuses saw what the Obots and ACORN are like - thugs. We do not want to be country club Republicans. We do not back down NOW to anyone.
Do the research on the law that Leo has done, read it all, understand the Constitution then get back to us.
Ben Smith, his whole head is stuck up there, but it feels sooooooooo good to him.
Frivolous lawsuit? We’ll see. Barack Hussein Obama or his disciples get no sympathy from me on this.
And do we give up on the truth and the law if the tough gets going in those area you have laid out?
Every inch of the constitution we surrender is that much closer to losing it.
All I want is for this Illinois thug to have to obey the law and realize he does not have the right to pick and choose what law he obeys, a lousy precedent.
Isn’t he going to raise his hand and swear to uphold the constitution???
This is the man that says the constitution is “fundamentally” flawed, do you think he is going to stop circumventing it???
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