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President's lawyers say eligibility question over
WND ^ | 9/15/09 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 09/15/2009 7:45:03 PM PDT by pissant

A team of taxpayer-supported lawyers arguing on behalf of President Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office say not even the U.S. Supreme Court has any input into the question at this point, and such cases should be barred from the courts.

"The Constitution's commitment to the Electoral College of the responsibility to select the president includes the authority to decide whether a presidential candidate is qualified for office," said a brief filed by government lawyers in a California lawsuit over Obama's eligibility under the Constitution's demand for a "natural born citizen" in the White House.

That's because, the brief states, "the examination of a candidate's qualifications is an integral component of the electors' decision-making process. The Constitution also provides that, after the Electoral College has voted, further review of a presidential candidate's eligibility for office, to the extent such review is required, rests with Congress."

The lawsuit has been brought on behalf of a number of plaintiffs alleging that Obama is not constitutionally eligible for office. The case, being handled by attorney Orly Taitz, who now has been joined by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, has a tentative trial date of Jan. 26, 2010.

Before then, however, U.S. District Judge David Carter is scheduled to hear the government's demand that the case be thrown out.

The arguments submitted by acting U.S. Attorney George S. Cardona and assistant U.S. Attorneys Leon Weidman, Roger E. West and David A. DeJute, say the Constitution further specifies if no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives has the authority to select the president, "and, in so doing, to evaluate the candidates' qualifications."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; education; government; healthcare; islam; larrysinclairslover; marines; military; obama; palin; politics; veterans
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In Barry's wet dreams its over.
1 posted on 09/15/2009 7:45:03 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Is that like Gore declaring the science is done, the debate on Global Warming is over? Yeah, look how well that worked out for Al...


2 posted on 09/15/2009 7:46:12 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: pissant

Judge Carter might have something to say about this...


3 posted on 09/15/2009 7:46:57 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: pissant

This sounds to me as though Bammie’s lawyers are saying he’s not an American citizen and there is nothing anything can do about it. Whadda country!


4 posted on 09/15/2009 7:47:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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To: pissant

They are declaring a coup.


5 posted on 09/15/2009 7:48:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: pissant

Why would they want to bar it from court?


6 posted on 09/15/2009 7:49:08 PM PDT by Principled (Get the capital back! NRST!)
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To: SpaceBar

>They are declaring a coup.

They are ASKING for Armed America to Use its Right to Alter or Abolish the Government. (See the Declaration of Independence)


8 posted on 09/15/2009 7:50:00 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That’s what they are saying. They could have saved thousands in expenses drafting this bilge and instead presented the court with the real BC or perhaps the COLB that FactChecck and the FR Obama kneepadders claim is legit. LOL


9 posted on 09/15/2009 7:50:27 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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I don’t think a court can throw Obama out of office. Congress has to do that.

But a court can examine the facts, and rule to protect plantiffs.

Isn’t there an electoral college rep that has sued? As well as a presidential candidate?

I do expect the president’s goon squad to try to get an injunction from an appeals court or the ninth circuit. But that’s just going to have even more people signing the petition when they do that.


10 posted on 09/15/2009 7:50:42 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: pissant; STARWISE; LucyT; shield; BP2; rolling_stone; Fred Nerks
AND the argument is: We've got away with it so far so we get away with it........DUH.

Wonder what laws they are using as precedent?

11 posted on 09/15/2009 7:50:47 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“Is that like Gore declaring the science is done, the debate on Global Warming is over? Yeah, look how well that worked out for Al...”

Beat me to it. Yea, I’m going to believe the president’s lawyers. I presume they got that position by cheating on their taxes - like the rest of the chief loon’s team.

If - and when - we find out the loon is illegitimate, we’ll have to take care of things our own way if the law will not.


12 posted on 09/15/2009 7:51:16 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: buccaneer81

Can you imagine the back door communications this man is getting from the WH and O’s minions? I hope he’s got a spine.


13 posted on 09/15/2009 7:51:52 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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President's lawyers say eligibility question over

Only in his mind.

14 posted on 09/15/2009 7:52:08 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama is going to give me the chance to find out what it is like living in a third world country.)
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did they just admit that Barry isn't a citizen ? and we can't do nothin about it ?
15 posted on 09/15/2009 7:52:57 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: pissant; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ..

The list, ping


16 posted on 09/15/2009 7:53:19 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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Judge Carter might have something to say about this...

a Clinton appointee on the 9th Circus

17 posted on 09/15/2009 7:53:44 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: OneWingedShark
That'd sure beat all this pussy-footing around.

Last time we did that we had close to 70 years of prosperity. A slight bump in the road over States Rights, then we had another 50 years before government got big enough to screw that trend up.

The last 80 or so years are a pale shadow of what we REALLY could have done had we just gotten government out of our way.

I'd be vacationing on Mars right now...

18 posted on 09/15/2009 7:53:47 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

that what they are saying


19 posted on 09/15/2009 7:54:10 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: pissant

Yeah, right.


20 posted on 09/15/2009 7:54:42 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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