Urrrrrgggg. Honest to God, this picture of the California attorney behind the suit“Obama ‘fake’ Birth Certificate” lawsuit makes me want to vomit.
Yes friends, in a last ditch, utterly pathetic attempt to keep Obama from being sworn in as President, and on the basis of conjecture and a 9-11 truther-esq obsession, lawyers and other dimwits are flooding the courts with spurious certiorari and mandamus applications – despite thisand the fact that 50 state Secretaries of State are required to determine eligibility before authorising a Presidential candidate’s name on their state’s ballot.
Our learned friends at World Net Daily explain: “The petition is a request for the Superior Court of California in Sacramento County to issue a peremptory writ barring Secretary of State Debra Bowen “from both certifying to the governor the names of the California Electors, and from transmitting to each presidential Elector a Certificate of Election, until such documentary proof is produced and verified showing that Senator Obamais a ‘natural born’ citizen of the United States and does not hold citizenship of Indonesia, Kenya or Great Britain.”errrr, how does one show he is not a citizen of a foreign country? Produce a, “no I’m not a citizen of Great Britain passport?”
The only more laughable pleadings I’ve ever read are contained in attorney Philip Berg’s motionto resurrect his application for the District Court to compel Obama et al to produce said Mr Obama’s birth certificate. One will see here that Souter J is unmoved.
To quote His Honour Judge Samuel B. Kent in Bradshaw v Unity Marine Corporation (2001): Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact — complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words — to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed.
Thus, with Big Chief tablet readied, thick black pencil in hand, and a devil-may-care laugh in the face of death, life on the razor’s edge sense of exhilaration, allow me to explain – as it appears that Messrs Berg and Kreep were absent on the day law was taught at their respective law schools:
The first issue is standing. Go on, click on that link. You’ll see that there are three constitutional standing tests which must be met for the Court to be able to hear the matter: Injury, causation and redressability.
Now would one of these barrack-room lawyers please explain to me Philip Berg’s or Alan Keyes’ injury? Care to have a stab at “causation”. Go on, roll out that “redressability” argument.
Allow me. Philip Berg’s pleadings re standing include his learned and highly persuasive argument that his “injury” is the “hundreds of billable hours spent [drafting this shite]“
Firstly, it took him “hundreds of hours”?
Secondly, how is Obama the “cause” of his insanity?
But our barrack-room friends point to Alan Keyes. “Ah ha! Alan Keyes’ standing emanates from his own failed Presidential bid”.
Wrong. As a contributer on this helpful blog explains, Alan Keyes cannot blame Obama for his loss. Keyes lost because nobody voted for him; Obama cannot be blamed for that.
Included in the “world and his wife” class of Respondents Keyes et al have named is the Secretary of State of California. Implicit in their argument is the speculation that she didn’t satisfy herself of Obama’s filing credentials. But knowing that time has passed, as she already authorised his name on the ballot, Keyes and gang appear to ask the Court to add additional duties to the Electors in her role as Secretary of State.
I’m perplexed. Usually our barrack-room friends abhor “activist judges” ruling beyond the scope of their powers….
Even the Secretary of State wouldn’t have standing against Obama, as it was in her discretion to judge the validity of his documents. If she was not satisfied [with the evidence of compliance by Obama of the "natural born" requirement], she would not have authorised his name on the ballot. Then, it would have been for Obama to petition the Court!
Sensing they might be onto a loser after all, the brighter of the barrack-room boys ask, “but what about the merits”. You mean, is it possible that Obama isn’t a natural born citizen? Again, as our friends here explain, it’s for Congress to determine what is “natural born” – and it appears they’ve never done so.
Nevertheless let’s look at Dr Corsi’s conjecture that Obama was really born in Kenya. Got any proof? Bueller?
So while indeed it may be possible that Obama was born in Kenya, just as it may be possible for pigs one day to fly unaided, these cases are going nowhere. But don’t let that get in the way of cranking out idiot “radio“.
Next week, why Marbury v Madison is good law and my observations as to how you got it hung ’round your neck.
PS: As you will see, here, Mr Marbury DID have standing…
Barf.
