- NecroBob
- Jul 29, 2003
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RagnarokAngel posted:
Hey there's no link to a news story BUT HE'S A MARINE. OORAH.
This same Marine?
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'Birthers' lawsuit challenging Obama's election is dismissed
October 29, 2009 | 12:05 pm
The “birthers” lose, again.
This morning, a U.S. District Court Judge in Santa Ana dismissed a federal lawsuit challenging President Obama’s election on the grounds he wasn’t born in the U.S.
In his opinion, Judge David O. Carter stated that it is not within the constitutional power of the federal courts to “overthrow a sitting president.”
The case, brought forward by California attorney Orly Taitz, a leader of the so-called “birther” movement, claims that Obama doesn’t meet the constitutional qualifications to be president because he has not shown he is a “natural born citizen” of the U.S.
Obama has produced a birth certificate from Hawaii, but Taitz claims there is evidence he was born in Kenya.
This case has failed to advance beyond several lower courts. Taitz was also fined $20,000 on Oct. 13 by a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia in part because Taitz had used the legal system to pursue “political rhetoric and insults,” the judge in that case stated.
In the most recent case, Carter wrote in his opinion how “plaintiffs have attacked” anyone who has dismissed their claim as “unpatriotic and even treasonous.”
“Respecting the constitutional role and jurisdiction of this court is not unpatriotic," he said. "Quite the contrary, this Court considers commitment to that constitutional role to be the ultimate reflection of patriotism.”
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- NecroBob
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Drop The Bomb posted:
Rome
I've tried reading that from a pro-fundamentalist point of view, an anti-fundamentalist POV, a "patriot"'s POV, and a "blame-America-first"er POV. No matter how you read it, that whole little allegory is utterly pointless and doesn't really support any of them.
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