Posted on 01/09/2009 8:28:39 PM PST by devere
Chief Justice John Roberts has sent a full-throated challenge of Barack Obama’s presidential eligibility to conference: Lightfoot v. Bowen (SCOTUS docket page). I.O. interviewed Lightfoot lead attorney, Orly Taitz at 2:20pm CT, today, minutes after she learned of this move.
Taitz believes, “This is Chief Justice Roberts telling the Congress… the other eight Justices, that there is a problem with this election.”
The Lightfoot case has legal standing, due to litigant, Libertarian Gail Lightfoot’s vice presidential candidacy in California. It also address two major issues of legal merit: 1. Obama’s failure to provide legally evidentiary documentation of citizenship and American birth and, 2. his United Kingdom citizenship at birth, passed to him by his Kenyan father when that nation was a British colony. (Other current challenges also submit that Obama’s apparent status as an Indonesian citizen, as a child, would have caused his American citizenship to be revoked.) This case is therefore considered the strongest yet, to be heard by the Supreme Court. Obama challenger, Philp Berg had previously been granted conference hearings, scheduled this Friday, 1/9 and on 1/16.
Roberts was submitted this case on 12/29, originally a petition for an injunction against the State of California’s Electoral College vote. His action comes one day before the Congress is to certify the Electoral College votes electing Barack Obama, 1/8. The conference called by Roberts is scheduled for 1/23. Orly Taitz is not deterred by the conference coming after the inauguration, which is to be held 1/20, “If they find out that he was not eligible, then they can actually rescind the election; the whole inauguration and certification were not valid.” The strongest time for legal and judicial rulings are generally after the fact.
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Ping ping ping
Reported that Fox radio has it on now.
FInd anything...or just pinging cause you’re happy!
So, one of our resident constitutional scholars weighs in and says this issue is beating all kinds of odds against it. That means it has credibility. It is no longer honorable for someone to try to portray conservatives who are fighting this battle as tinfoil hat conspiracists. It has been a credible issue for quite a while now.
And yet, what do we see, even on this thread? The following keywords that make FR look foolish as we try to get to the bottom of this credible issue.
KEYWORDS: 114birthers; 911truthers; birthers; conspiracytheories; getalife; itsover; notthisshiitagain; sorelosermans; tinfoilalert; tinfoilhats; trollsonparade; whereisrush;
No, sorry...I kept hanging around this thread waiting for an update like a lost kid...pinged so I could go to latest posts and come back...that’s when I saw I had mail...bless you.
Can someone give us, the late arrivals, an idea of what we’re looking for?
This one is probably mine in response to the other keywords.
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Nothing.
I checked around - I don’t think the report is valid. Who stated they heard Gergen?
Somebody’s pulling an API, here.
I’m now on primitive dialup, never have TV, and fever is rising - whine - could you tell what “it” is? - thank you!
Another freeper heard in on FOX radio.
No. Because they are denying them as fast as they can. Getting to conference to get denied is no trick. The original justice denied it. It got resubmitted to another justice. That justice takes it conference where they can all deny it once and for all.
Being sent to conference doesn't mean anything about merits or the chances of success. It's just the procedure.
I have 15 years’ experience .... Based on my experience
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the COLB image is not an image of a real document.
***Pretty much one of the things that Polarik has been saying all along.
Nothing on Twitter, FWIW.
Stop it.
"In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL."
That is precisely the site I've already addresed, and yes, the claim people are making about this site is a false claim.
This is one of the several often repeated false claims. I have detailed why on other threads. The site being quoted is a program for Native Hawaiians (use in the same sense as Native Americans) for which applicants need not only prove Hawaiian birth, but a degree of Native Hawaiian ancestry. That's why additional information is required *for that program*, but even that program accepts birth certifcates as proof of Hawaiian birth.
People have been misrepresenting this, like some of the other big elements in the eligibility story.
fr mail
Rude people calling "lie" doesn't make it so.
I said “Good Day”, sir. You rate no more of my energy.
please send me some FreepMail too! I feel so left out!
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