I know you just legally explained this but..
How can he get away with it? Really? He put his name on this BC on National TV.
I know people who USED to be DC insiders. The arrogance is not something any of us could understand.
Here is why I believe this is happening...
1. No one in power has anything to gain if this BC/Eligibility ticking time bomb explodes. Everyone in power takes some shrapnel - some fatal, some maimed, some flesh wounds. But everyone gets hit. Note - this is all politically metaphors of course! So the WH knows everyone is trying run out the clock on this issue.
2. This admin thinks they can get away with it. They have media in their pocket. Repukes are scared and wimps. The courts are now well practiced in ‘lack of standing’. They have it all under control....except us darn people. They hate us. They hate the internet, they hate free speech. So they keep sending their trolls to do the Alinsky thing on the web.
3. Hawaii has helped so far. But interestingly, Hawaii has been careful to not directly cross the line. Look at Schatz refusing to declare Obama eligible in the OCON in 2008. Okubo was/is the center of the stuff on the fake COLB. I think she is still in the center. And should be one of the first to see the inside of jail cell. I think Fukino had to just go along with Okubo on the statements and mis-direction. Fukino was a political figure head. Okubo is the play maker - then and now. But then Abercrombie made his bold claim...and Palafox was probably supposed to ‘find’ (or make a LFBC). When he would not play ball - he was SMEARED by Abercrombie and tossed. Fuggy has played ball and ‘come up’ with the LFBC...So Hawaii has helped and the WH likes that. It gives them even more confidence. But it seems people in Hawaii saw what happened to Palafox - and why.
Either they did this so rushed that they really screwed up unintentionally (and some young collage graphics grad is floating face down in the Potomac). Or this was a statement of - “We can put out pure crap and get away it. Catch us if you can!”
Either way - its pure DC arrogance. Do not underestimate it. Hopefully, the people of Hawaii see what is happening to their government. It is now being corrupted. And those who seem to hold out - Palafox - are smeared. It seems that has some angry out there - it should!