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To: mrsmith
"Now, someone who is affected by an official act of Zobama has to file suit to have it declared void because he is not qualified to be President.

Won't go anywhere. It'll be like the countless lawsuits brought during the Vietnam war declaring Johnson/Nixon had no right to keep troops in combat without a declaration of war.

Obama is President. The only thing that can remove him is Impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate. The Judicial branch of government has no authority to remove him or to to declare him "unqualified for office" resulting in his executive orders or signed legislation unconstitutional. These suits are now just a waste of time. It makes me more than a little ill.

24 posted on 01/22/2009 2:00:47 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Big_Monkey

No, the difference re those suits is that there would be standing. A specific harm to specific persons.

The difficulty (IMO) would be presenting sufficient evidence to get to the discovery phase. It would be ‘proving a negative’.


32 posted on 01/22/2009 2:07:58 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: Big_Monkey
It'll be like the countless lawsuits brought during the Vietnam war declaring Johnson/Nixon had no right to keep troops in combat without a declaration of war.

I don't believe those were all dismissed on ground of "Standing" or other legal technicalities. Some were heard and argued on the merits, at least at the Circuit court level. and it was determined that Johnson and Nixon *did* have that power as Commander-in-Chief when supported by Congressional Appropriations and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which authorized the use of military forces. See Orlando vs. Laird

61 posted on 01/22/2009 4:37:05 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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