Update on Eligibility Challenges
Liberty Legal Foundation is still litigating three eligibility challenges in our attempt to confirm the Constitutional qualifications for the Office of President. We filed a Federal lawsuit in Arizona Federal Court, a state lawsuit in Tennessee state Court, and a state ballot challenge in Georgia.
You may remember that a hearing was held in the Georgia ballot challenge last January, and the Georgia administrative court dismissed our challenge finding that Obama is a natural born citizen. LLF appealed to the Georgia Superior Court, and when that court dismissed our appeal we filed a petition for appeal with the Supreme Court of Georgia. Earlier this month the Supreme Court of Georgia denied our petition for appeal. We are now preparing a petition for appeal to be filed directly with the U.S. Supreme Court.
You may also remember that LLF’s Georgia ballot challenge was the first and only litigation to date that got a ruling on the merits from a court on the question of Obama’s Constitutional eligibility to serve as President. The Georgia administrative Court’s ruling was stunningly wrong, but it did address the issue of what “natural born citizen” means under Article II of our Constitution. The fact that the Georgia court’s ruling was not a procedural dismissal leaves us hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will agree to review this ruling.
Our Tennessee and Arizona cases are different from the Georgia case for several reasons. The biggest difference is the named defendants. In Georgia, Barack Obama was the named defendant. In our Tennessee and Arizona lawsuits we specifically avoided naming Mr. Obama directly. We also did not name any Secretary of State or any other government officials. By avoiding direct claims against any governmental officials or agencies we avoid governmental immunities, special government-favoring procedural rules, and government-paid lawyers. Our focus in these cases is the Democratic National Committee and the state-level Democratic organizations that intend to continue to defraud the American people with an unconstitutional candidate. These political party organizations are not part of the government. So, they should be easier to sue.
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Good luck on your Supreme Court appeal. The court is not likely to take you case. The Supreme Court has turned down every birther case so far.
ReplyDeleteThere have now been four state court rulings (Indiana, Georgia, Arizona and New Jersey) and one federal court ruling http://ohforgoodnesssake.com/?p=21346 that Obama specifically is a Natural Born Citizen, and there have been six or so cases in general in which the US-born children of foreigners are described as Natural Born Citizens in the ruling. And, of course, there is the Wong Kim Ark case which ruled six two two (one not voting) that every child born in the USA except for the children of foreign diplomats is Natural Born.