Posted on 01/09/2009 8:28:39 PM PST by 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.
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Let me ask. If you can simply declare any documentation a forgery, is it even possible for Obama to prove anything to your satisfaction?
I wish I knew, it’s really strange.
Drew are you still spouting that same crap? You know very well that SCOTUS has not denied any of these cases only the stays.
star traveler is that you?
You should think twice about that. How many GOP Senators have the guts to question a black Senator about his qualifications. We had a hard time even prosecuting a black congressman who hid tens of thousands in his freezer!!!
Is there any question why Zero made the entire election about race!!
Axlerod is no dummy! He will play any card he can.and all from the bottom of the deck.
Like the vast, overwhelming majority of Americans, conservative and liberal alike, I believe Obama is eligible to serve as POTUS.
Am I happy he won? No.
Am I surprised he won? No.
Do I wish to see conservatives elected to office? Yes.
Will the crackpot conspiracy theories being put forward by 9/11 Truthers and amateur poker players help in this goal? Not at all.
Are these BC threads entertaining? Immensely!
Then, I read an article the very next day that Justice Roberts was all bent outta shape because the SC Justices were denied a pay raise.
At a time when average Americans are losing their jobs, with millions having wage increases frozen (to include myself), this just goes to show how outta touch these people are.
I agree O-9 against even hearing the evidence....then move on.
Star traveler’s fellow traveler.
None of the cases have been thrown out, only the stays were denied. All of been scheduled for conference, which is now four scheduled.
You again!
Yes, of course it is possible. For me, all 0bama would have to do is waive any right to privacy and direct the State of Hawaii to send certified (raised seal) copies of his original birth certificate to anyone who pays whatever the State's going fee is. So long as those certificates (mailed to several interested people) were all the same, raised no questions from people who have testified in court as experts in document authentication, and showed that he was born in Hawaii, I would be okay with it. I don't think the Framers would be okay with it, but I would.
Tell me I'm being unreasonable.
ML/NJ
fyi- drew is a anti-colb troll. Nothing you say will change his mission. He and star traveler will spout the same nonsense.
Drew68 fits the bill too.
Must be wonderful to know the outcomes of all things all the time before they even happen. Or do you routinely bash our side when you don’t like the topic.
To be honest, it's not like one needs to be Nostradamus to predict the outcomes of these cases.
They are already on the master list......With schedule as to when they post and their writing style etc etc etc.....Seems we may have more than one person using the same loggins/and talking points....Keep them around long enough and we’ll get the other information we’re searching for.....
I didn't ask you what you believe. Are you intentionally dodging my question or do you have difficulty with the English language?
I asked if you believe 0bama has demonstrated that he is Constitutionally eligible (aside from possibly photoshopped images that have appeared on the 'net). We're not talking about something really difficult here. Everyone who wants a driver's license here (in NJ) effectively has to do this.
But since you b e l i e v e , could you possibly indicate why you believe this? Is it 0bama's word? Is it those computer images his backers posted? Is it that you believe that no alien would have the balls to try and pull off what some think 0bama is trying to pull off? Is it all those people who have come forward and said they were present in the same hospital and remembered 0bama? What?
ML/NJ
And that Passport would list his place of birth.
That’s good for you since you are hardly a Nostrdamus.
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