Posted on 03/21/2014 10:25:55 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
Today the Alabama Supreme Court issued its 7-2 decision in the case of McInnish v. Chapman, and the decision goes against plaintiffs Hugh Chapman and Virgil Goode, who were trying to force the Alabama Secretary of State to verify Obama’s eligibility to be on the 2102 Alabama presidential ballot. Larry Klayman was the attorney for the Appellants.
The Court’s Majority issued no written opinion, only affirming the lower court decision dismissing the case.
Majority decision to affirm, no opinion (Stuart, Murdock, Shaw, Main, Wise) Concurring opinion (Bolin) Concurring opinion (Bryan) Dissenting Opinion (Moore) Dissenting Opinion (Parker) Chief Justice Roy Moore issued the major dissenting opinion, and Justice Bolin issued a concurring opinion specifically addressed to Moore’s dissent. Chief Justice Moore states that under Alabama Law, Secretary of State Chapman has an affirmative duty to verify candidate eligibility. Justice Bolin agrees that candidate eligibility is an important public interest, but that Alabama statutes do not place a duty on the Secretary of State to verify it. Further Justice Bolin points out that Secretary of State Chapman is a nonjudicial officer with no subpoena power or investigative authority. Justice Bolin concludes:
Under our current structure, however, the burden of investigating a presidential candidate’s qualifications is best left – unfortunately or not – to the candidate’s political party….
As I understand his position, Justice Bolin is saying that a state statute requiring verification of eligibility for candidates for president is a desirable thing, given his belief that the federal courts are prohibited from adjudicating eligibility because of the Political Question Doctrine.
Justice Bryan also issued a concurring opinion, briefly stating his belief that legislation could be passed to allow verification of candidate eligibility.
Chief Justice Moore’s dissenting opinion goes to the details of the Alabama statutes involved and at a brief reading has no particular high points. It is an analysis on the merits.
Chief Justice Parker also dissents from the majority opinion, supporting the analysis of Chief Justice Moore, but disagreeing on the Secretary of State’s affirmative duty to investigate candidate eligibility.
A text search of all of the opinions affirms my opinion that the Affidavit of Mike Zullo is irrelevant, being cited not onc
I, for one, would like to see the questions answered-- they should have been answered long ago-- but they will never be answered when incompetent lawyers like Klayman and Taitz are litigating these issues in courts that have no jurisdiction. Congress should have-- and still can-- subpoenaed the official birth records from Hawai'i, which would definitely answer the question one way or the other.
Don’t know if you’ve been pinged to this thread yet.
All the more reason that Sherriff Joe, put on his stage makeup, and get the truth in front of the stupid people, using all his forensics and analysis of bogus documents.
Maybe, just maybe, with enough public agitation, even ABCNBCCBS will allow a few seconds of coverage to the biggest scam since the founding of the USA!!!
And for the OBots here - Zullo also said, "It will happen."
Very unprofessional thing for anyone in law enforcement to say. If he can make a case, he should bring a complaint before a judge and get an arrest warrant, and not wait. If he is still "vetting information," then he can't say that "it will happen," because his information may not pan out.
Have you ever heard any prosecutor, state or federal, hold a press conference before filing charges?
Zullo and Arpaio have got the goods on Obama and his OBots.
It's going to happen.
Of course it will.
Be patient grasshopper.
The info that they have is not from 2 to 3 years ago. It’s been ONLY about 5 months when the good stuff has started to come in.
Yeah, me too. ;p
Whats the over and under on the date?
I wonder what some people are going to do when January, 2017 comes.
Fixed it.
Can’t argue with you there.
Wanna bet at the odds you gave? I’ll put up a buck, and if there’s no press conference before June 22, you’ll owe me...a million. You game?
Wannaaa ..fine Bubba-bot. I’ll bet you $100 to FR that Arpaio’s presser happens by or on June 22.
Alabama State Motto:
Audemus jura nostra defendere
We Dare Defend our Rights
I’m a bit disappointed with Alabama today
"Sheriff Joe's Obama Investigator: Press Conferences Coming"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8jx8Fp4Xy8
So you are OK with that, and that YOU choses an Indonesian citizen, an illegal alien, to be YOUR faked de facto p_Resident???
Nothing is going to happen. There is no investigation. Zullo is not a cop, he has no legal authority to tell skateboarders to leave a parking lot. For the last 2 years he has been telling birthers of big revelations to come, non of which ever materialized. He is just a weird nut who posts weird things online, that is the extent of it, there is nothing more to his “investigation” than his press releases.
Boy are you screwy. There already has been Arpaio pressers from 2 years ago that correctly analyzed that fake OBama White House birf certificate. You better look up thread for the explanation BO as I said this evidence and PROOF is rather recent as in about 5 months, and NOT from 2 to 3 years ago.
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