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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Standing... so only members of the candidates’ club can complain and raise the constitutional issue? Weird, and not settled yet, either.
Contact the elector representing your congressional district or the two at large electors representing your state about this issue.
Keep’em comin’! This is hopefully one way to limit the impact of osama hussein’s destruction of the country.
Yeah...right. Hillary Clinton and Chuck-you Schumer.
What a wild turn of events it’d be if he turned out to be ineligible. Would Joe “Stand up Chuck” Biden take office in his stead, then? Not that it’s much improvement, but at least he’s an American.
Whats the dilznit wit Keyes stressin on his homie Obama? That shite just aint coolio man!
I don’t think so. I think it goes to Mccain or to a new election.
We’re in for a rough ride if he is deemed ineligible,
but not as rough as what he has in store for us if he is.
I believe the Constitution states that the VP elect takes the office.
Obama has spent 800,000 so far fighting having to produce proof.
Why doesn’t McCain, the RNC or the Justice dept get involved?
“I don’t think so. I think it goes to Mccain or to a new election.”
Ah. That’s a bridge I never thought we’d have to cross, but whaddayaknow? Here we are... maybe!
Folks, folks, calm down. We’ve elected a MESSIAH, not just a President. The Messiah is ABOVE the law. <sarcasm/off).
$800 thou? the presidency is worth ten times that....he’ll keep paying
I think that a lot of McCain supporters are quite well, uh, prepared for the immediate consequences.
I think any elector who will not be seated would also have standing.
Why does any American citizen NOT have standing on this issue????? This is OUR government...not just the politicians who are CHOSEN (elected) by US, the people....
IMO, each and every American citizen has the right to question any candidates compliancy with the Constitution of the United States of America..................
“Why doesn’t McCain, the RNC or the Justice dept get involved?”
I’m going to go with “castration.”
Goes to the Electoral College to choose. Else it goes to the congress of the EC cannot come to agreement.
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