Posted on 02/04/2012 5:43:26 AM PST by broken_arrow1
President Obama's name should appear on Georgia's 2012 presidential ballot, in the official opinion of Judge Michael Malihi of Georgia's Office of State Administrative Hearings (OSAH), issued on February 3. Judge Malihi's decision is the result of hearings held January 26 on three separate actions brought by several Georgia residents. Under Georgia law, Secretary of State Brian Kemp had referred the challenges, filed last November, to the OSAH for a recommendation.
Ordinarily, the Court would enter a default order against the party that fails to participate in any stage of a proceeding...Nonetheless, despite the Defendant's failure to appear, Plaintiffs asked this Court to decide the case on the merits of their arguments and evidence. The Court granted Plaintiff's request.
Two of the challenges, represented by attorney Van Irion of the Liberty Legal Foundation and Georgia Rep. J. Mark Hatfield, did not focus on Obama's place of birth or the infamous birth certificate. Rather, Irion and Hatfield contended that Obama, with his non-US citizen father, is not a "natural born" citizen according to the rule of statutory construction in the interpretation of the Constitution and existing Supreme Court precedent. (Further explanation of those assertions is contained in a comprehensive amicus brief submitted to the court, prepared by attorney Leo Donofrio.)
In his sweeping denial of the Plaintiff's challenges, however, Judge Malihi did not mention the principle, and instead relied on the 2009 case of Ankeny v Governor, stating that "[t]he Indiana Court determined that a person qualifies as a natural born citizen if he was born in the United States because he became a United States citizen at birth."
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of course not...but we will never know now will we?
and btw...it would have garnered more press (of course I am not kidding myself here on how much) and if the plantiffs tried to enforce the judgment it would kept it in the public eye.
Now it is just white-washed away.
To the contrary. It means that two of our brightest stars can run for president and the Dems can’t throw that “racist” millstone around our necks anymore.
The issue is that Obama (piss be upon him) is NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. His father was a foreigner and that fact forever disqualifies him from the office of the presidency.
So what does our Constitution mean to you?
Judges dont make law.
It means that snark and irony is lost on you.
Cute answer but you didn't answer my question. So I will ask it again:
What does our Constitution mean to you?
Too many intellectually dishonest and leftist people in the law industry.
That seasoned lawyers and reputable conservative foundations have not embraced birtherism should tell you something about the validity of the issue.
it has always come back to the "birth record" - it appeared fraudulent at the start of this inquiry and it remains fraudulent to date.
How they could "concede" that Ubama is indeed born in Hawaii while only looking at something that is fraudulent is beyond me.
Add to the mix a Connecticut SSN... hmmmmm, velly velly intellesting.
The judge did a head fake, calling the attorneys into chambers and announced he was inclined to issue a summery judgement, but the suckers saw this as a win, win opportunity to present evidence in a real court.
His harsh treatment or Orly, should have been a tip off, he was in the bag from the beginning. Drowning open people grasp at straws, this may have been the last one, our Republic has now been absorbed by the one Worlders many of which reside in both parties.
We are now officially a nation ruled by men, not laws.
{So if your choice was Rubio or Obama, would you not vote?}
As if it really matters, if the people really had any say in the matter Palin would be on the ballot. Only people they have a vested interest in will ever make the cut.
I don’t know who They are, and neither does anyone else, but They are real, and we better figure it out.
It means I have the right to call people on being too dense to understand snark and sarcasm.
Look. We need a constitutional amendment here.
A couple of Soros types, or Soros himself and some bimbo paid to do the deed, could crawl onto American soil and whelp out a future candidate. Any anchor baby can become President.
This is not what our founders intended.
Your comments reveal to all on this serious thread what a shallow loser you are.
The people spoke, and they didn’t like Palin, outside of the FR bubble.
{People need to learn that there are different class of citizens.}
Yep politicians in power, and expendables that are not. Two distinct classes, and only two.
Knowing that 94% of blacks voted for obama sours me on them too.
True... very true.
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