Unfortunately, I think if Congress was confronted with proof that Obama was born in Mongolia of Mongolian parents, they would pass a law saying NBC means a citizen of the world, and the SCOTUS would back them.
Frankly, if we had 100 GOP Senators, I don’t think we could muster 67 votes to remove Obama...and one of my own Senators, McCain, would lead the defense.
Unfortunately, I think if Congress was confronted with proof that Obama was born in Mongolia of Mongolian parents, they would pass a law saying NBC means a citizen of the world, and the SCOTUS would back them.
Frankly, if we had 100 GOP Senators, I don’t think we could muster 67 votes to remove Obama...and one of my own Senators, McCain, would lead the defense.
The first requirement of standing is a specific, non-generalized injury-in-fact. There is only one person who was directly injured-in-fact by Barack Obama being elected president. That person is Senator John Sidney McCain. The only other person to actually receive Electoral College votes for President and stand a legitimate chance of being elected president.
Here is what a conservative federal judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan had to say: “To bring a case in federal court a plaintiff must establish that he or she has standing to do so, which is essentially a question of whether “the litigant is entitled to have the court decide the merits of the dispute. . . .”
There are three elements that form the “irreducible constitutional minimum of standing.” If any one of these three requirements is not met, a plaintiff does not have standing.
The first of these is that the plaintiff must suffer an injury in fact. That is an injury must be concrete and particularized and actual or imminent, rather than conjectural or hypothetical. Injuries which are general, rather than particularized, are not sufficient to create standing. Indeed, the Supreme Court has “consistently held that a plaintiff raising only a generally available grievance about government—claiming only harm to his and every citizen’s interest in proper application of the Constitution and laws, and seeking relief that no more directly and tangibly benefits him than it does the public at large—does not state an Article III case or controversy.” —US Chief Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, Royce C. Lamberth in “Taitz v Obama”
April 14, 2010
In 71 tries, no plaintiff has been able to overcome the first element of standing. John McCain is the one person who might be able to jump that legal hurdle.