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.

[seekthetruth]

“on Rush's show Friday he did say he had an inside man at the recent RNC conference and he was told that the RNC big wigs have decided to appease Zero and there rest so they don't lose the NE liberal rinos.

That is interesting. Too bad Rush didn't have an inside man doing a little research on the constitutional qualifications of the now President-elect.

It seems to me that Rush is also in the appease Zero mode. Otherwise he would have at least mentioned the something about the constitutional crisis we are in. So our Congress, Government officials, SCOTUS, Media, and even the conservative talk show hosts are in the “forget the Constitution, lets move on” mode. They obviously don't care that Barack Hussien Obama aka Barry Soetoro from Kenya and Indonesia does not constitutionally qualify to be their Commander in Chief!

[Red Steel]

I’ve had 3 US passports so I know what they say. Again, there’s a distinct possibility that the passport issued to Obama was based on fraudulent information. I posted, #198, the many ways someone can get a passport not using a US birth certificate to acquire one.

[Drew68]

But since you b e l i e v e , could you possibly indicate why you believe this?

Do you really think that Bush's Justice Department (staffed by former Clintonistas) neglected to do a background check on this guy? If there was something, they'd have found it and Hillary would have used it. Simple as that.

[little jeremiah]

Someone else - can’t remember now, maybe Kevmo? -noticed s/hr/they would sometimes post round the clock. I thought it was a team effort for other reasons. I can’t explain cause i’m sick and can’t use r arm, going to bed soon.

[jarofants]

I see Ed Hale now has sound effects. What a classy guy.

[unspun]

I invite your comments on the pertinent points in this post, about Berg, Taitz' Lightfoot and about Pidgeon's Broe:

Alert: Historic Week & Month - to Breakthrough or Disaster - the I.O. Agenda

1. Congress voted Thursday, to "certify" the E.C. vote for The Unkown, Unvetted, Usurping President.
2. Friday, 1/9, SCOTUS apparently conferred about what to do with pesky Philip Berg. Do they now deign to grant him standing, this mere Sovereign Citizen? Then, on the 1/16, he gets another meeting of the Supreme How 'Bout That BOGUS POTUS Committee. Is Tom Waite right and does SCOTUS not like it that BHO has not responded to Souter's prior... invitation?
3. By Mr. Phil's TRSoL report, Berg v. Obama was not dealt a miscellaneous order Friday. SCOTUS disposition should be announced Monday, as is customary. Phil does a great job of putting this into perspective, here.
4. Attorney, Orly Taitz appreciates that Chief Justice John Roberts has sent Lightfoot v. Bowen (SCOTUS docket page) to committee for 1/23. Wednesday's I.O. article and interview with Taitz here. Also, Orly Taitz' subsequent press release, over there. She exhorts more letters and other petitions from concerned Americans. Her cover letter to Roberts was an interesting move; maybe it helped, at least in citing some of the known references to the meaning of the Article 2 phrase, natural born Citizen. Be apprised, now: this Lightfoot is not a petition for writ of certiorari, it is an appeal for an injunction against the California Electoral College vote, which has already happened. To I.O's ken, Dr. Taitz will need assistance from someone licensed to present before the SCOTUS, if she wishes to petition for a writ (for full review, oral argument, and quite possibly, for such a thing as a reversal of an unconstitutional election). She describes Lightfoot v. Bowen as a "step," but at least it is a step to bring a federal candidate's standing, along with two of the three arguments against Obama's candidacy to the SCOTUS and we are in uncharged jurisprudential waters.
5. Orly Taitz is in hyperdrive. Maybe we should all pray for her safety.
6. What has been transpiring in other cases?: Obama legal challenge scorecard
7. Well, Broe v. Reed was dismissed, Thursday by the WA Supremes, which notified the local media instead of that first, before any contact with Broe attorney, Stephen Pidgeon, if at all. Huh. And to the SCOTUS Pidgeon will fly. He thinks the WA court, like their Secretary of State may just be saying, "'S'not my job, man" and for some reason don't feel encumbered with the qualifying of a presidential candidiate. If so, they hide in a nationwide cloud of confusion, due to lack of legislative procedure to support the natural born Citizenshp clause and that causes a further confusion regarding "controlling legal authority" (as Al Gore appreciators might remember, i.e., how he avoided prison, per his past foreign fundraising, Hindu monks and all). In Broe v. Reed, Pidgeon refers to all of the three major contentions with BHO II: 1. U.K. citizenship at birth via BHO I, 2. no valid proof of natural born Citizenship provided and, 3. apparent Indonesian citizenship as a child, revoking any U.S. citizenship. Pidgeon's Broe case did receive oral argument by the WA SC, which may help in terms of standing (with all the various "objective" elements for SCOTUS to consider, you do know that, at least for those justices unwilling or unable to apply the finest of epistemological categorization of constitutional law with natural accuracy, a lot of this is subjective for them, don't you?).
8. Schneller v. Cortes (based upon no valid proof of n.b.C. by Obama) was taken from Pennsylvania to Justice Souter, Thursday, in the attempt to delay the congressional certification of the Electoral College vote and whaddyaknow, Souter denied.
9. I.O. still finds it more than "odd" that after Donofrio was given the run-around by the SCOTUS clerks and Wrotnowski's filing was sent away for "anthrax testing," Taitz' Lightfoot filing was "lost" before Christmas. Perhaps more on that, later.

[Polarik]

He will be committing perjury when he takes the oath of office and swears to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States," if in fact he is not a natural born citizen. In that event, he will have broken his oath the instant he swears it.

Which will be a nice addition to his felony document fraud.

[ml/nj]

Hillary would have used it.

Maybe Hillary isn't as smart as you think? As for the Bush Justice Department, I would ask, "What Justice Department?" Do you mean the one that didn't investigate the missing "W's" on the WH computer keyboards; or the missing silverware; or maybe you were really impressed with how they handled the Sandy Berger affair.

You want me to infer something because of inaction on the part of Hillary or the Justice Department. But doesn't it make more sense to infer something from 0bama's action or inaction? Why wouldn't he just provide his birth certificate for a few bucks rather than have a gaggle of lawyers make procedural challenges? As far as I am concerned, so long as one if American has a question about 0bama's eligiblity he has to answer it. Modified, limited, hangouts died with Nixon. (Well, okay maybe Clinton revived them and they worked, but you shouldn't be impressed.)

ML/NJ

[Polarik]

The strongest time for legal and judicial rulings are generally after the fact.

Well, and the litigants will finally have standing.

[hoosiermama]

DOn’t forget the perjury in his application for the Illinois Bar. The BHO was the only nae he had ever used.

[little jeremiah]

BTTT for good summary of legal stuff.

[trumandogz]

Hillary let the BNC Question Slide, never thought of it.

Neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin wanted to mention the NBC question

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R) did not confirm Obama’s US Citizenship when Obama entered Senate in January 2005

Not one of the 538 members of the Electoral College questioned BHO’s status as a NBC

Not one of the 50 governors questioned his NBC

Not one of the 535 members of the House and Senate questioned his NBC status

The Four Strict Constructionist members of the SCOTUS have not yet been able to understand their argument.

And American citizens were not allowed to enter Pakistan in 1981 even though we were selling them f-16’s.

[budwiesest]

I agree O-9 against even hearing the evidence....then move on.

If you needed any further convincing, 4 out of 9 couldn't even understand the second ammendment as written. We so screwed.

[nominal]

trumandawgz is driving us to socialism at .001 MPH ;)

[Jet Jaguar]

I disagree.

It’s .0002.

I would still like to see proof it was legal or not to travel to Pakistan at that time using an American Passport.

Only thing I have seen thus far is a press article about visiting Pakistan.

[Polarik]

Oh, yeah. There’s a whole mountain of stuff to come.

[Frantzie]

Ignore Drew - he like Johnny One Note. Been saying the same thing since before the election. Hoosermama’s link to that blog was excellent. The fellow talks about how SCOTUS justices do not live in a vacuum. I still have faith in Scalia, Thomas plus Alito and Roberts. We shall see.

This Wayne Root story is a new one for me??? I wonder what he thinks is in Obama’s transcripts. Foreign student perhaps?

[mojitojoe]

star traveler is that you?

snicker

[Frantzie]

No way. If Obama gets bounced - the Dow will probably rally 1000 points.

The mega crash in october 2008 was a large part manipulation with Soros and shorts plus the polls showing the Kenyan was probably going to win. Investors were strongly voting with their feet at the prospect of Obama, Pelosi and Reid and a LOT more socialism.

Those three have us on the path to be the next Argentina (debt default & grabbing pensions) with a bit of Mexico (drug gangs) and Mugabe’s Afro-marxism mixed in.

If we had a free press - the Democrats would be hammered when Obi is found to be ineligible. It is a fraud perpetrated by Obama and the DNC - Howard Dean. If Obama is hopefully booted then Howard Dean and the DNC should be sued.

[Frantzie]

SCOTUS had to wait until this week when Congress verified the vote totals. Until that happened - SCOTUS could not act.

Note - they did not bounce Cort’s case as far as a I know. Leo filed his case and helped Cort file his. Leo was first then Cort. AFAIK - Cort’s case is still alive. Leo had said Cort was a better case because Leo had more time.