Written by admin · Filed Under Press Alerts | Leave a Comment Summary Of Arguments December 10, 2008 Broe v. Reed Washington State Supreme Court Cause No. 8-2-473-8
Standing
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, “standing” to sue means that the party has sufficient stake – that the party is sufficiently affected - in an otherwise justiciable controversy to obtain judicial resolution of that controversy. “Standing” is satisfied if the plaintiff has a legally protectable and tangible interest at stake in the litigation.
Many of the cases challenging Sen. Obama’s citizenship status have been dismissed for “lack of standing.”
Plaintiffs in Broe v. Reed claim standing pursuant to the authorization given them by the legislature of Washington in RCW 29A.68.020(2). This statute creates standing for Plaintiffs to challenge the election of a candidate who has been elected but was ineligible at the time of his election to run for the office.
The duties of Washington’s Secretary of State
The Secretary of State is declared, under RCW 29A.04.230 to be “the chief election officer for all federal, state, county, city, town and district elections.” The Secretary of State is “required by law” to . . . coordinate those state election activities required by federal law. Read more
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Broe v Reed47; Press Release December 10, 2008 Contact: Stephen Pidgeon, Attorney at Law, P.S. Tel: (425) 605-4774 Fax: (425) 818-5371 Email: attorney@stephenpidgeon.com
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12 Washington voters sue to set aside the election of Barack Obama in Washington.
Bellevue, WA, December 10, 2008 — On December 4, 2008, James (Jim) Broe and 11 other Washington voters sued Secretary of State Sam Reed in the Washington Supreme Court, seeking a Writ of Mandamus to require the Secretary to set aside the votes cast for Senator Barack Obama. The Petition charges that at the time of the election, Senator Obama had failed to establish that he was a “natural born citizen” of the United States as required by the U.S. Constitution, failed to establish that he was an American citizen, and that he was not running under his legal name of Barry Soetoro.
The Petition as amended claims that because Senator Obama’s father was not an American, but a British citizen at the time of the Senator’s birth, the Senator was disqualified him from being a “natural born citizen” as that term is understood under U.S. laws of nationality. Read more
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Broe v Reed47; December 6, 2008 James Broe and 11 other Washington voters have filed in Washington’s Supreme Court to have the votes cast for Senator Obama set aside, because he failed to establish that he was even an American citizen running under his own name at the time of the election, let alone a “natural born citizen” as required by the U.S. Constitution. Unlike other cases that have been dismissed for lack of standing, these plaintiffs have standing under a unique Washington statute that allows any registered voter to challenge the election of someone who, at the time of the election, was ineligible to hold the office.
The Secretary of State’s office has already admitted it did nothing to determine Senator Obama’s eligibility, and Senator Obama hasn’t produced a single piece of evidence to prove he was born in the United States that would establish his eligibility, although the burden to prove his eligibility was placed on him by the rules of the national Democrat Party. Counsel for the plaintiffs Stephen Pidgeon had only a two word comment: “case closed!”
STEPHEN PIDGEON Attorney at Law, P.S.
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