Interview, Orly Taitz: Chief Justice Roberts Calls Conference on Obama Challenge: Lightfoot v. Bowen

Fort Hard Knox ^ | January 7, 2009 | Arlen Williams

[devere]

Chief Justice John Roberts has sent a full-throated challenge of Barack Obama’s presidential eligibility to conference: Lightfoot v. Bowen (SCOTUS docket page). I.O. interviewed Lightfoot lead attorney, Orly Taitz at 2:20pm CT, today, minutes after she learned of this move.

Taitz believes, “This is Chief Justice Roberts telling the Congress… the other eight Justices, that there is a problem with this election.”

The Lightfoot case has legal standing, due to litigant, Libertarian Gail Lightfoot’s vice presidential candidacy in California. It also address two major issues of legal merit: 1. Obama’s failure to provide legally evidentiary documentation of citizenship and American birth and, 2. his United Kingdom citizenship at birth, passed to him by his Kenyan father when that nation was a British colony. (Other current challenges also submit that Obama’s apparent status as an Indonesian citizen, as a child, would have caused his American citizenship to be revoked.) This case is therefore considered the strongest yet, to be heard by the Supreme Court. Obama challenger, Philp Berg had previously been granted conference hearings, scheduled this Friday, 1/9 and on 1/16.

Roberts was submitted this case on 12/29, originally a petition for an injunction against the State of California’s Electoral College vote. His action comes one day before the Congress is to certify the Electoral College votes electing Barack Obama, 1/8. The conference called by Roberts is scheduled for 1/23. Orly Taitz is not deterred by the conference coming after the inauguration, which is to be held 1/20, “If they find out that he was not eligible, then they can actually rescind the election; the whole inauguration and certification were not valid.” The strongest time for legal and judicial rulings are generally after the fact.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Ping

[freekitty]

I wonder if anything will come of this?

[mojitojoe]

Almost total. I picked it up on my stock trading service, because some pro thinks it might move the markets. And if SCOTUS grants certiorari it certainly will. The Dow will go to 4000 (and Barry will go to Kenya!).

: )

[freekitty]

Thanks hoosiermom. You give us hope.

[stockpirate]

trumandogz, Non-sequitur is anti-COLB and by extension not a supporter of the US Constitution. He shows up to cause problems on these threads. Not much better than that idiot star traveler.

[BIGLOOK]

If the Supremes take this and decide that the plaintiff has standing, they'll kick it back down to the lower courts for trial and decision. We could watch mold grow on the briefs and challanges for some time to come.

If and only if the Supremes intervene and hear the case themselves to avert a Constitutional crisis over eligibility of the President Elect, we have a whole new ball game.

An affirmative out come of this would indict the DNC and the FEC for failure of due diligence in the vetting process and remove the poser from office.

A 'thumbs down' decision will subject all of us to an administration that, in the words of Algore. has no controlling authority.

Dave and Jim.....

Either of the above situations would be a bailout for the Press and MSM. We live in interesting times.

[mojitojoe]

On Fox news, a few days to a week or so back, there was a very brief comment to the effect that Joe Biden had not yet resigned his senate seat. There was discussion that he was the first elected vp not to do so. That made me wonder if Joe Biden knows something?

I wondered the same thing. Also Bill Clinton made that bizarre statement that if obama was eligible under the Constitution. I think Hillary and Bill know something.

[little jeremiah]

Who was undoubtedly more than one person unless s/he needed no sleep at all, and hasn’t been around lately...

[LucyT]

[Cicero]

I hope you’re right.

According to comments on a number of earlier threads, it only takes 4 votes in conference to put it on the court’s schedule. So they don’t need Stevens at this stage.

And if they DO vote to move forward, then it will be simply impossible for the news media to ignore it.

But I’m not sure why they would wait until now to take action.

[hoosiermama]

You will notice that there are “posters” that are attacking the message and trying to discourage, or minimize accurate posts......This is a technique call Axelturfing....We have docuentation that BO actually paid people to do this throughout his candidancy.....

Ignore is the word....comes from the same root word that ignorant and ignoramus come from.

Thanks for the comment.

[stockpirate]

It may be that he needed to be certified by the congress first, Now that that has happened we are all clear.

[mojitojoe]

If the zombots think it's such rubbish, why do they show up on these threads and sound so desperate to dispute it. That just makes me think that there is something excruciatingly damaging to their Messiah.

[trumandogz]

A large part of the argument is that Obama travelled to Pakistan in 1981 when it was illegal for U.S. citizens to travel to Pakistan.

The fact is that is was perfectly legal to go to Pakistan in 1981.

Now, do you really want to build your case against Obama on information that can so easily be proven false?

[trumandogz]

minimize accurate posts.

Sorry, but stating that Americans could not travel to Pakistan in 1981 is not an accurate post.

[hoosiermama]

They waited till now so that Berg (and you and I) have standing.

They may not even have to “hear” the case, if they go through a kind of discovery process, to get the BC...Don't completely understand how it works maybe BP can explain it.
Thus far BO has not answered the complaint. If he doesn't soon he forfeits that right.

RE: MSM There are so many people who truly didn't pay attention during class or who have forgotten the lessons then, it really is best if the MSM ignores the issue until the Court can issue their findings......

The finding may be out before the MSM and BO knows what hits them.....They have been looking at the issue for weeks and have had plenty of time to have staff research and individual thoughts organized to write their findings.

You may be surprised at the results!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Good news! So this is why Obama is on tv every fricking day with a presser. He thinks the will get the people to revolt when he is found to be an illegal alien. OOOoo he creeps me out.

[hoosiermama]

[mlo]

"Obot troll alert."

Or maybe he's just correct.

Are you going to apologize if events prove him right?

[jacquej]

Using a MacBook Pro, and Safari.

Even if I reduce the screen size to the point where I have to put on my mag-eyes to read it, it still goes off my 17” screen, unfortunately.

And, I won’t switch browsers. I love Safari.