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Title: Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve
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AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_obama
Published: Dec 8, 2008
Author: AP
Post Date: 2008-12-08 10:47:25 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Obama, Supreme Court, Dead Constitution
Views: 267
Comments: 9
Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues Play Video AP – Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues * Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues Play Video Video: Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues AP President-elect Barack Obama listens to a reporter's question during a news AP – President-elect Barack Obama listens to a reporter's question during a news conference in Chicago, Sunday, … WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president. Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president. At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081..._on_go_su_co/scotus_obama ">Click for Full Text!
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#1. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
I am so shocked and surprised that my face almost changed expression.
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
Dey it be. Anyone know what's up with the press conference at the National Press Club on this?
Let's get one thing straight. The United States Corporate Supreme Kangaroo Court is as much in bed with the world communist bankster cabal as ANYONE is. They are by a large degree irrelevant other than their rubber stamp cover for fascism (kelo v new london anyone ? roe v wade anyone ?) in AmeriKa.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Berg's suit - to me, at least - makes the most sense. Donofrio's suit was so confusing, it just muddied the waters. I'm glad that Berg's suit still remains "at court" and that Donofrio's has been cast aside.
www.nolanchart.com/article5606.html Topic: Barack Obama Will Joey Biden Be President? THE BARACK OBAMA BIRTH SAGA CONTINUES When I first started writing on the constitutional eligibility of both Barack Obama and John McCain after the conventions, I thought the issue would be quickly silenced. Forgive my chuckling and a cheer as the forces of the Constitution continue their valiant charge for that "damn piece of paper."by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution Sunday, December 7, 2008 WASHINGTON, DC, DECEMBER 8 - All eyes from the Democratic National Party, and many others from around the nation will focus for a moment on the National Press Club at 13:30, where the We The People Foundation will hold a press conference. Around 10 AM, the US Supreme Court will announce whether or not they will consider lawsuits concerning Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility. Attorneys Philip Berg (PA), Leo Donofrio (NJ), and Orly Taitz (CA) will issue statements summarizing their arguments and path forward following the Court's announcement. There are at least 10 other lawsuits in various stages filed in other states. The attorneys have requested that the Electoral College vote set for December 15 be postponed so that their case can be heard. The attorneys have agreed to answer questions from the press, although it appears the Supreme Court will not. WTP paid for a scathing full-page open letter ad that ran in Obama's hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, on two days last week. WTP has sent five (5) public open letters in November to President-elect Obama requesting he immediately release his birth certificate for examination by a team of forensic experts. At the top of the WTP website is a great shot contrasting his "birth certificate" with his "birth certification." The Washington Times published an article December 5 titled "An Imposter in the White House?", complete with a shifty-looking picture of Obama. The troublesome text from Section 1 of the Constitution is: No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. I enjoyed reading WTP's letter (cackling in glee is in truth more apt), and have made the point in this column previously that if Obama does not address this, he will consistently be labeled an usurper for his entire reign, a la Bush-Gore 2000, only much worse since he is clearly at fault.
worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82819 WND Exclusive OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL Eligibility dispute story spreads Now National Press Club event scheduled on challenge to Oval Office occupant Posted: December 05, 2008 10:00 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2008 WorldNetDaily Barack Obama Questions raised over Barack Obama's citizenship are reaching into the National Press Club now, with an event scheduled Monday at which an activist group will call for the release of documentation proving his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. Already, at least one legal advocacy group is promising to raise legal challenges to whatever Obama would do as president, until and unless his eligibility is established. Now the group that has aired and published a number of ads challenging Obama based on charges that he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and doesn't meet the U.S. Constitution's requirement that all presidents be "natural-born" citizens has scheduled a news conference in Washington. Among those scheduled to be present are attorneys handling a Pennsylvania case brought by Philip Berg and a California case brought by Orly Taitz. The U.S. Supreme Court justices were scheduled to have a conference today on whether to accept arguments on the issue, but no immediate announcement was made. WeThePeopleFoundation.org, which is scheduling the event, will talk about Obama's response to the publication of an open letter last week in the Chicago Tribune. The letter sought Obama's authorization for access to his original birth certificate, which state officials in Hawaii report having seen. "Under our Constitution, no one is eligible to assume the office of the president unless he or she is a 'natural born citizen,'" Bob Schulz of WeThePeople said. "To date, Mr. Obama has refused all requests to release his original birth certificate or other documents that would definitively establish his citizenship status and thus his constitutional eligibility." More than a dozen legal challenges have been initiated over Obama's citizenship, all citing Obama's clouded history and the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a natural born citizen. Join more than 165,000 others in signing WND's online petition calling for release of Barack Obama's birth certificate and verifying beyond any shadow of a doubt his constitutional eligibility for office. There have been allegations Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as his campaign has reported, that he could be considered a British subject because of his father's residency in what then was a British protectorate that later became Kenya, and that the "Certification of Live Birth" posted on his website simply shows his mother registered his birth in Hawaii after he was born, but does not document a location of birth. There also have been questions raised about his travels as a youth, including the years he spent registered as a Muslim in an Indonesian school, and his later travels to Pakistan at a time when U.S. passports weren't welcome in that nation. WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions. The biggest question remains why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists, simply hasn't ordered it made available to settle the rumors. The dispute has been covered mostly by online news sources, but in recent days, Washington and Philadelphia newspapers have begun following, CNN and Fox have commented and even the American Bar Association Journal has noted the dispute. The governor's office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin. Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born, while a video posted on YouTube features Obama's Kenyan grandmother Sarah claiming to have witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya. Schulz' open letter asked that Obama have delivered to the National Press Club a certified copy of the original birth certificate, including any under the names Barack Husssein Obama, Barry Soetoro, Barry Obama, Barack Dunham and Barry Dunham, a certificate of his citizenship and admission forms for his attendance at Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard. The dispute is facing an immediate deadline, because members of the U.S. Electoral College are scheduled to vote Dec. 15 formally to make Obama the next president. Don't be surprised by the developments in an Obama White House. Read the "The Audacity of Deceit" for an analysis of what to expect – today for only $4.95, an incredible $21 discount! "Should the state members of the Electoral College cast their votes for Mr. Obama in the face of such overwhelming evidence, and without verification of Mr. Obama's eligibility, they would be committing treason to the Constitution," Schultz said. WND has reported that as long as two years ago, a lawyer whose firm is linked to Obama was advocating abandonment of the "natural-born" requirement in the Constitution. And in an analysis in the Philadelphia Bulletin, constitutional lawyer Edwin Vieira, suggested there would be major problems should Obama not be eligible, and assume the office anyway. "Let's assume he wasn't born in the U.S.," Vieira told the Bulletin. "What's the consequence? He will not be eligible. That means he cannot be elected validly. The people and the Electoral College cannot overcome this and the House of Representatives can't make him president. So what's the next step? He takes the oath of office, and assuming he's aware he's not a citizen, then it's a perjured oath." The result would be any appointments made an ineligible president, and all the appointees' decisions, would be invalid, he said. Vieira suggested Obama supporters should be the ones raising the questions, because of the discredit that would follow a revelation of ineligibility. "Let's say we go a year into this process, and it all turns out to be a flim-flam," Vieira told the newspaper. "What's the nation's reaction to that? What's going to be the reaction in the next U.S. election? God knows. It has almost revolutionary consequences, if you think about it." He also suggested Obama's silence on the issue, itself, is a concern. Vieira told the newspaper the question is significant because it involves the man who could have his finger next to a nuclear button. He also said the question would remain whether any laws he signs would be valid. Even after Obama takes the oath of office, the questions will remain, he suggested. Wes Pruden, editor emeritus of the Washington Times, said Obama's refusal to authorize release of his birth certificate has fueled the dispute. "This has led to furious speculation on the Internet that Mr. Obama's parents returned to Hawaii with him shortly after his birth and simply registered his Kenyan birth certificate, certified by the doctor who delivered him and by the hospital where he was born, with the Hawaii Department of Health. Why, these skeptics ask, won't the president-elect authorize release of the original Hawaii certificate and squelch speculation once and for all?" he said. "It's a good question, though lack of his asking doesn't prove anything."
Resist.
They call it the AMERIKAN DREAM because you have to be asleep (and you are) to believe it !
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." —Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On, 1940 Sen. Obama's refusal to release the document doesn't speak well as to the style of administration to expect.
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At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court.Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy.
#5. To: bluegrass (#2)
Anyone know what's up with the press conference at the National Press Club on this?
#6. To: bluegrass (#2)
Anyone know what's up with the press conference at the National Press Club on this?
#7. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
#8. To: noone222 (#7)
Resist.
#9. To: TwentyTwelve (#6)
Why, these skeptics ask, won't the president-elect authorize release of the original Hawaii certificate and squelch speculation once and for all?
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