And since she has no authority to make such a declaration, it is...therefore, officially meaningless.
And since she has no authority to make such a declaration, it is...therefore, officially meaningless.
Of course, you would want it to be meaningless, or else you wouldn't have anything to argue about... :-) ... A couple of other posts to that effect... :-)
Certainly the State of Hawaii has the ability, the expertise, and in many cases, the "request" (by many people) -- to make legal statements as they have made and do so in many different cases. States do that all the time. I've see that happen plenty of times for different legal issues. It gets run by their lawyers, they determine the legal status of something and they make a pronouncement.
I don't know where you've been but it goes on probably every day with states all over this country (one or the other or various ones on any day...)
At the same time, if a legal statement that a state has made is something that some people don't like, they can (and do) challenge those in a court of law.
But, I've said all along if you want a "settling of the issue" of Obama's qualifications per the Constitution and in regards to his parents' citizenship, the only settling of this is going to be by the Supreme Court.
However, that -- in no way, shape or form, prevents any state from making legal pronouncements, officially, on behalf of the state, no matter if someone wants to take something to the Supreme Court.
The State of Hawaii hires lawyers too, you know... :-) You can bet that the State of Hawaii lawyers would not have the state make an official statement without having the legal backing to say so. I can be confident of that, with the fact that all the states have a team of lawyers for examining any subject that the state deal with.
What this means to me, is that there are lawyers who are going to examine "official pronouncements" of any state to the public and they're not going to let something in there that is a lie (from the state records) and is legally unsupportable.
And speaking from the position of non-lawyers, there are conservatives who do not think that this is relevant to the Constitutional issue of Obama being qualified, i.e., that natural born status, per the parents citizenship, and it affecting Obama, having been born in Hawaii.
That's obviousl since we've got all the Republicans and the Republican candidate, plus the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States (Bush and Cheney) -- none of them raising this issue as relevant in Obama's qualifications under the Constitution.