Posted on 11/19/2008 12:52:10 PM PST by pissant
November 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Sacramento Supreme Court petition filed on behalf of Alan Keyes and others has asked the Secretary of State to withhold the state's 55 electoral votes from the December Electoral College tally until President-Elect Barack Obama proves he is eligible to take office.
The court document joins a host of litigation questioning Obama's eligibility in as many as 15 states, with confirmed cases in Ohio, Connecticut, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Hawaii, and unconfirmed reports from Utah, Wyoming, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Texas, California and Virginia, according to World Net Daily.
All the cases reported to have failed were dismissed due to the plaintiff's lack of standing, without the court actually investigating the complaint.
However, as Keyes was on the November ballot as the American Independent Party presidential candidate, his is the first case in which the plaintiff is a candidate who lost the presidency, perhaps illegitimately, to Obama. This may mean that Keyes' case will be the first in which the plaintiff is deemed to have sufficient standing, leading the court to investigate the complaint instead of dismissing it.
"Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that an usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal," Keyes wrote to the Sacramento Supreme Court.
"An unprecedented and looming constitutional crisis awaits if a President elected by the popular vote and the electoral vote does not constitutionally qualify to serve in that capacity," the court document continued.
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Bingo. Article II of the constitution states Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
The states have chosen to let us voice our opinion as to who we want, but they are not required to. We do not have a constitutional right to vote for president. The electors are allowed to vote for who they want, although I have heard that the political parties have them pledge to vote for who the people voted for (Obama or Mc Cain).
Therefore, if Obama is shown unable to become president before the electoral college meets, the electors are free to vote for who they want. This will most likely be Biden or Clinton depending on what the Dem party decides.
That's them in a nutshell.
Is it possible that it is because we do not have a constitutional right to vote for president as I have stated earlier? This could be why we are not an effected party but perhaps the electoral college would be.
I guess the “we the people...” concept was tossed into the trash bin so time ago with most of the rest of the constitution. I know I’m thrilled to be living under tyranny - judges who ignore law and feel free to make their own. Government officials and servants who have no obligation to follow the law, etc, etc
I don’t recall the Chief Justices reviewing birth certificates. So yes, he would swear him in. If it gets to Jan 20, it’s all over but the coronation.
Standing, STANDING!! Here is where I get my standing....I found this in some old papers laying around the house.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”
I have some more old papers, but this works for me.
But who would have vetted him as a Senator? Was it Chicago politics?
I think the US Senate just assumed he was vetted at the state level...OR it could be that they just assume that anyone in their right mind would NOT choose to run for President if they knew they were not US citizens..
As you probably know what’s said about if you assume. You make an Ass out of you and Me.
No one in there right mind would have elected him President to begin with. He doesn’t have the experience to run a gas station.
Leo Donofrio’s NJ case is now docketed for SCOTUS is now “Distributed for Conference”. Find out more here:
http://www.blogtext.org/naturalborncitizen/
This is starting to gain steam. Wonder when the MSM will start reporting on this?
Donofrio v Obama Citizenship
Case Moves To New
Supreme Court Level
By Devvy Kidd
11-19-8
Leo Donofrio’s case submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court reagrding Obama’s citizenship has reached a new level: the case has been “distributed for conference.”
On December 5, 2008, only ten days before the electoral college votes, the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will meet in private to discuss this case identified as:
Leo C. Donofrio, v. Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey
United States Supreme Court Docket No. 08A407
Leo informed me earlier today via telephone about this historic event and wanted to thank everyone who sent their letters to Justice Clarence Thomas.
This is the link to the Supreme Court showing the docket and action:
http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08a407.htm
If you go to this link, it will give you the process under Title 18:
http://nocriminalcode.blogspot.com/2007/10/petition-distributed-for- conference-on.html
Click on Justices Conference for more history on this process.
This docketing today by the court for this next step should send ripples of fear through the Obama camp. Obama has been proceeding at lighenting speed to put together a cabinet and take possession of the White House with the hope that he won’t have to answer the question of whether or not he was “at birth” a “natural born citizen.”
Every major news network, print and cable news like FOX, CNN and MSNBC, have ignored all the court cases challenging Obama’s eligibility as sore losers or conspiracy theories. It might be in their best interest at this point to report this critically important meeting to take place on December 5, 2008, or lose what little credibility they have left.
INTREP
“they think its false hope. He is a senator it’s not like they dont do background checks. They do have securoty clearance they already know it’s unfortunately valid. He is a citizen.”
He may be a citizen, but is he a NATURAL BORN citizen. The presidency is the only elected office with that requirement.
The requirements to be a US Senator are different than POTUS.
A Senator does not have to be a natural born citizen.
Yep. just in book advances for the missus...
...And that does not even begin to tally the real looting.
I'm hoping for a federal rap first.
Me too. For document forgery.
Guess who’ll be going down with him.
Axelrod? Kos? The HI officials?
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