Oy.
Ping!
One thing is clear. We need to be all over our legislators to enact laws that require an open and honest standard of vetting these candidates.
Quite literally Obama will have one or more lawsuits every week he is in office.
He will go down in history as the only president to have subpoenas served daily.
And the longer he stays in office the more people he will bring down thus weakening America even further and opening chinks for our enemies to dig into.
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this has also created a good future litmus test for fed. appointees,,determine how he would have decided on 0’b, then reject him as an admitted felon if he gives the wrong answer, assuming 0’b is rejected by the Supremes.
How dare ordinary citizens challenge the privilege of their masters?
The Rats in Olympia will take care of that pesky statute PDQ.
'At NO TIME did he produce'... enough said. Such a simple request for Barack to fulfill the requirement. It's too bad so many have drank the Fool Aid. It is pitiful.
After Obama is inaugurated, any individual uniquely and adversely affected by one of his official actions as President would have standing to challenge his eligibility to be President. E.g., a bureaucrat or political employee fired by Obama. (Same with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, whose appointment and confirmation might violate the Emoluments Clause; see Eugene Volokh’s exploration of this issue, here: http://volokh.com/posts/1227548910.shtml)
That being said, any federal judge hearing the case would:
1) Find no standing anyway, even if such a conclusion is contrary to law, or
2) Find another technical ground to dismiss the case.
There’s just no way a federal judge is going to buck the political will of the American people, which is to have Obama as President. The matter should not be deemed what is called a Political Question in constitutional law (something committed to the political branches, which the courts cannot touch) because it involves an explicit textual command of the Constitution (just as, e.g., whether the person elected President is qualified to serve when he might not be 35 years old is not a Political Question.)
But, as a practical matter, it is a Political Question - because federal judges will simply refuse to touch the issue of whether Obama is eligible to be President. I’d bet the house on it (if I had a house.) However, the Hillary Clinton matter is closer call. It might happen that a case challenging Clinton’s eligibility to serve as Secretary of State would progress to the merits.
"The will of the electorate" in this case is moot if, in fact, they were grossly misled into voting for a Kenyan.
Had the electorate known him not to be an American he would never have been elected in the first place.