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To: Danae
You also neglect to note that many of the cases the SCOTUS refused to hear were cases that were brought directly to it. The court rarely ever hears those cases. It has to come to it from the court system. You should know better than this. That was a subtle and misleading statement you made.

The Supreme Court denied certiorari in every Obama case brought to it, including at least seven cases which came up from lower courts.

Sorry, but I am going to utterly disagree with you. May as well move onto the next poster.

Disagree all you want, but time will prove me right. SCOTUS will never hear an Obama eligibility case (unless some lower court finds Obama ineligible, in which case they will hear the case and reverse). I speak not as a defender of Obama (I think he is a terrible President), but as a lawyer who knows something of the way the court system works. If there was ever a nonjusticiable "political question," this is one.

75 posted on 06/15/2010 2:28:03 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

“If there was ever a nonjusticiable “political question,” this is one”

That is your opinion.

This is not a political question. It is a constitutional one. This is why SCOTUS has decided at least 5 cases where citizenship was at issue. It is not a political question. Its a legal one. That is your mistake and the reason perhaps why you are a lawyer and not a judge.

Not hearing a case is not the same as reversing a case, or affirming the decision of a lower court. People confuse these all the time, and apparently so are you.


81 posted on 06/15/2010 2:38:53 PM PDT by Danae (If Liberals were only moderately insane, they would be tollerable. Alas, such is not the case.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Who is and who is not a Natural Born Citizen for Presidential eligibility purposes needs to be decided, it will come up again like McCain Jindahl etc..We the people have a right to know who is and who is not eligible to be President before we go through this crap again.


83 posted on 06/15/2010 2:43:18 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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To: Lurking Libertarian; Danae
If there was ever a nonjusticiable "political question," this is one.

Dear sir,

You are in for a surprise.

119 posted on 06/15/2010 6:42:29 PM PDT by thecodont
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