BP2,
Thank you sir. Earlier this week you suggested that a group of commissioned military officer should bring suit. I’m thinking you are right....this is the only way.
I’ve been both enlisted and a commissioned officer in the U.S. military. My enlisted oath said “obey the president and officers appointed over me”. However, my oath as a commissioned officer ONLY said to “support and defend the constitution.” With that specific charge/commission it would seem that currently commissioned officers should be able to file suit to say that there is doubt, regardless of how trivia it may be perceived by some, that President Elect Obama may not meet the qualifications to be POTUS. As such, all commissioned officers of the military should have standing to respectfully demand Mr. Obama to definitively put to rest any doubts, and if he won’t then the SCOTUS should compel him to do so. Otherwise, those commissioned officers have not “supported and defended the constitution.”
What say others here?
I agree with you.
How many lawsuits and how many variations of people who “have standing” will it take for the courts to take seriously those of us who are defending the constitution, as written by the Founding Fathers, in whatever way we can?
As a former Commissioned Officer I would advise that any suit should best be brought by an Officer who is no longer on active duty and subject to the UCMJ, but WHO IS subject to recall. Someone on active duty, even exercising their Constitutional Rights, would be subject to reprisals. Someone who is no longer on active duty, but subject to recall, would not be as vulnerable, yet should have “standing” to bring suit.