Posted on 02/08/2012 10:09:23 AM PST by Pfesser
An administrative law judge in Georgia who held hearings on citizens complaints that Barack Obama isnt eligible to be president and so shouldnt be on the 2012 presidential ballot in the state failed to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent, according to one of the attorneys representing clients bringing the complaints....
Appeals of the decision already are in the works, ... Hatfield ... told WND he had expected Kemp to rubber-stamp whatever Malihi wrote....
He noted since Obama and his lawyer failed to appear and failed to submit any evidence, the determination by Malihi in the cases brought by his clients appears to be unsubstantiated.
Hatfield also explained that Malihi failed to decide the burden of proof.
The defendant and his lawyer failed to attend trial and failed to offer any evidence, and such failures were intentional If the defendant did, as plaintiffs contend, bear the burden of proof in these cases, then defendant can in no way be said to have satisfied his burden, and plaintiffs are entitled to judgment.
He also noted that Malihi based his opinion of an Indiana Court of Appeals ruling from 2009, when, in fact, the U.S. Supreme Court also has spoken on the issue.
While Malihi said he believed Obama was born in the U.S. and that automatically conferred natural born citizenship on him, that is an incorrect statement of the applicable law, Hatfield said.
The ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett is binding authority for the proposition that the Article II phrase natural born citizen refers to a person born in the United States to two (2) parents who were then (at the time of the childs birth) themselves United States citizens.
He said since Obamas father never was a U.S. citizen, Obama junior then is disqualified....
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I just read this thread and that is NOT what bushpilot1 was saying, and you’re an a.....e.
As far as I could tell, bp was stating historical stuff for the record, not advocating a “whites only” POV. But I was not following everything with a fine tooth comb. There is jumping the gun or ingoring egregious trolldom on occasion...
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