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."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Good post and an excellent retort their argument.
Judge's have multiple cases going on at any given time.
>>> A citizen by nature is natural-born, he is undisputedly and undoubtedly a citizen, he needs NO statute of any kind to explain or clarify his citizenship.
Not true.
Not only must one be born on US soil, but BOTH parents must be US citizens.
Even if Obama was born in Hawaii, he still doesn’t qualify as natural born, because his father was not a US citizen.
Good Post! Thanks
bttt
I don't know but I'd be a big fan of the "French Haircut" for everyone complicit in this particular case.
“...we are a nation of laws.”
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No we’re not, we are a nation of lawyers.
So Gibbs doesn’t have to get back to us (as he told the WND reporter he would) on the Kapi’olani Medical Center’s use of that there letter that sure looked like it came out of zer0’s
office?
How about that Selective Service fake?
Could he try to use the fact that the first, what 5-6 presidents weren’t US citizens?
I put nothing past these scum.
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No, the Founding Fathers covered that one ...
Unless Obama can miraculously produce ye olde long-forme Birth Charter from Kenya (or any country for that matter) dated on or prior to March 4, 1789 (operable date of the Constitution) AND that he was physically in the United States on or prior to that date (that would make Obama like 220 years old) ...
Article II, Section I, Clause IV:
” ... No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States ...”
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This veteran has neither forgotten nor forsworn that oath.
That is the premise of Berg’s case....Fraud with the DNC, Nanzi, Dean etc also named as defendants .....Orley case would just open the door for Berg to move forward..
To the tune of an old Johnny Mathis song: “It’s not for them to say....”
I hope he wears body armor to bed.
He’s not on the appelate circus, he’s a district court judge.
The question is if someone knowingly violated the constitution and continued in that, have they committed treason? The Obama Administration’s prosecution of Bush people will create a dangerous precedent. Treason is a capital crime.
If the courts cannot sort it out and the congress act accordingly, I fear the next 9/12 march on DC will have a totally different meaning. This country belongs to the people and the government WORKS FOR US...not the other way around.
Such arrogance!
How about that Selective Service fake?
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I'm fascinated by how different Obama's signature on the selective service form is from Obama's signature of today.
I'm no handwriting expert, but it looks to me like a person other than Obama signed the selective service form some 20 years ago.
Where did you get that convoluted rubbish? Read the Constitution.
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