Will Supremes review Obama's citizenship arguments?
- Details
- Created on Saturday, 06 December 2008 08:04
- Written by Enoch Daniel Aba
2008 WorldNetDaily: With protesters gathering and praying on the front steps, the U.S. Supreme Court met in conference Friday, December 05, 2008 to discuss whether or not to hear a case challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.
"Obama was born a dual citizen," protester Roger Bredow told the Washington, D.C., local events blog, DCist. "British, and a citizen of the United States, at birth."
According to Bredow – and the case the Supreme Court reviewed today – dual citizenship makes Obama ineligible to take the oath of office.
The case of Leo C. Donofrio v. New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, which claims Obama does not meet the Constitution's Article 2, Section 1 "natural-born citizen" requirement for president, was initially denied a hearing by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, but Justice Clarence Thomas agreed to bring it back for review today.
In order to go forward in the process, the case needs four of the Supreme Court's nine justices to approve a full hearing.
Bredow created a YouTube video inviting supporters to travel to Washington, D.C., and join him in urging the Supreme Court to hear the Donofrio case.
"If I'm going to be honest with you," Bredow confessed, "I thought I might be the only person here."
DCist contributor Dave Weigel reported roughly 15 to 20 people showed up for the rally.
"There aren't a lot of people out here today," said Steve Brindle, who drove into the capital from Pennsylvania. "There are a lot of people talking about this back home. Really, everyone's asking questions."
Donofrio's questions began months ago.
Donofrio's original suit sought a court order to stop the Nov 4th presidential election. When that was denied, he amended his complaint to stop the Electoral College from certifying Obama as the winning candidate when it meets Dec. 15.
Unlike many of the lawsuits regarding Obama's "natural-born citizen" status, the Donofrio case makes no allegation that Obama was born on foreign soil. Instead, Donofrio contends Obama was a British citizen at birth, because of citizenship in a British colony, Kenya.
"Don't be distracted by the birth certificate and Indonesia issues," Donofrio writes on his Natural Born Citizen blog. "They are irrelevant to Senator Obama's ineligibility to be president. Since Barack Obama's father was a citizen of Kenya and therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of Senator Obama's birth, then Senator Obama was a British citizen 'at birth.'"
Obama's Fight the Smears website confirms that Donofrio is correct about the Democrat's citizenship at birth, but says his dual citizenship with Britain expired, leaving him with only American citizenship.
Donfrio, however, contends that the Constitution was written in such a way to exclude dual citizens like Obama.
"The Framers of the Constitution, at the time of their birth," Donofrio writes, "were also British citizens, and that's why the Framers declared that, while they were citizens of the United States, they themselves were not 'natural born citizens.'"
"Therefore," Donofrio summarizes, "even if he were to produce an original birth certificate proving he was born on U.S. soil, he still wouldn't be eligible to be president."
As WND has reported, Donofrio's case is only one of several filed around the country challenging Obama's eligibility to be elected president under the Constitution.
Last month WND reported worries over a "constitutional crisis" that could be looming over the issue of Obama's citizenship.
WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi even traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.
The biggest question is why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists as his campaign has stated, simply hasn't ordered it made available to settle the rumors.
The governor's office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. There have been other allegations that Obama actually was born in Kenya during a time when his father was a British subject.
Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others filed a court petition in California asking the secretary of state to refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office.
The California action was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation on behalf of Keyes, the presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, along with Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, both California electors.
"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 (a) 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," the action challenges.
The popular vote Nov 4th favored Obama over Sen. John McCain by several percentage points. But because of the distribution of the votes, Obama is projected to take the Electoral College vote by a 2-to-1 margin.
The California case states, "There is a reasonable and common expectation by the voters that to qualify for the ballot, the individuals running for office must meet minimum qualifications as outlined in the federal and state Constitutions and statutes, and that compliance with those minimum qualifications has been confirmed by the officials overseeing the election process," the complaint said, when in fact the only documentation currently required is a signed statement from the candidate attesting to those qualifications.
"Since [the secretary of state] has, as its core, the mission of certifying and establishing the validity of the election process, this writ seeks a Court Order barring SOS from certifying the California Electors until documentary proof that Senator Obama is a 'natural born' citizen of the United States of America is received by her," the document said.
"This proof could include items such as his original birth certificate, showing the name of the hospital and the name and the signature of the doctor, all of his passports with immigration stamps, and verification from the governments where the candidate has resided, verifying that he did not, and does not, hold citizenship of these countries, and any other documents that certify an individual’s citizenship and/or qualification for office.
The "certification of live birth" posted by the Obama campaign cannot be viewed as authoritative, the case alleges.
"Hawaii Revised Statute 338-178 allows registration of birth in Hawaii for a child that was born outside of Hawaii to parents who, for a year preceding the child’s birth, claimed Hawaii as their place of residence," the document said. "The only way to know where Senator Obama was actually born is to view Senator Obama's original birth certificate from 1961 that shows the name of the hospital and the name and signature of the doctor that delivered him."
The case also raises the circumstances of Obama's time during his youth in Indonesia, where he was listed as having Indonesian citizenship. Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, raising the possibility of Obama's mother having given up his U.S. citizenship.
Any subsequent U.S. citizenship then, the case claims, would be "naturalized," not "natural-born."Newer news items:
Older news items:
- ICC prosecutor warns UN against Sudan coverup - 04/12/2008
- Pagan Amum Shall not be Left Alone to Carry the Cross of Separation of South Sudan - 04/12/2008
- Search for Intelligent and Prudent Strategies for South Sudan Independence - 03/12/2008
- South Needs More Help to Rebuild Education, Roads, Health Care - UN Aid Chief - 02/12/2008
- Sudan Government Orders Demolition of 10,000 Houses in Slum - 02/12/2008
-
06-12-2008 19:41:21 |Unregistered| William Okuch Dak
Laws and constitutions are legistaled to meet the aspirations of nations and they are accomplished in consensual approach.
Today, American is in trouble and needs a healing. Therefore, whoever will fit to rescue US, there would be a need for constitutional and law amendments. So if Obama is the one to carry the American torch, then constitutional and legal revision can take place.
-
06-12-2008 19:43:50 |Unregistered| William Okuch Dak
I mean if American constitution doesn't allow Obama because of dual citizenship, there could be constitutional amendment to allow him because American people have rallied behind him.
-
06-12-2008 21:02:40 |Unregistered| Akim
Maybe Judge Thomas and the likes are trying to illegalize Obama capability of taking the oath as a way of blocking his presidency, so that a white man will be a president such as Obama's vice president. However, I am so proud that Obama won by the second highest majority in USA history and has already shown the characteristics of a great leader. If the birth certificate is an issue, why it wasn't investigated at the time when Obama announced his bid to run? it would have been a major issue warranting an investigation before he even made it to the democratic nomination.
-
08-12-2008 03:21:35 |Publisher| Wadawang
There is no legal ground in the case any way. That why it reached its way to the supreme court,because the case didn't get any legal attention through states courts. To me there are two senarios more likely to happen:
1. The court may reject the case.
2. Or the court may announce the case unconstitutional.
Because what constitute a national born as required in the constitution is a birth certificate issued in the United States and Obama has met that criteria,therefore I don't see any legal ground to the case. All is about making confusion.
-
09-12-2008 03:05:48 |Author| kwopipan
This is very interesting! Isn't this the very same Constitution" Article 2, Section 1 "natural-born citizen" requirement for president they reported in the media the other day that it should be amended so that none "natural-born citizen" like the current Governor of California -- Arnold Schwarzenegger could run for the presidency of the United States of America in the future?
Anyways, if this is really the only excuse they have left on the table to be used against this man at this time in order to stop him from taking the oath, and becoming the 44th president of the United States of America. Then I suggest they should just all go home, and call it a day for now. Until they manage to come up with something believable on him in the future that maybe worth talking about. But as for now the game is over, and there is really nothing they can do at this piont to change the outcome of the elections. Mr. Obama is going to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America without a doubt, because he clearly meets the criteria of “natural-born citizen†requirement for president as Mr. Padiet said it above.
Finally (just for laughs) … by “they†I am not here referring to Mr. The Maverick, Sarah Moon, or Joe The Liar, and the rest of the gang by any means. I know they already conceded their defeat, counted their loses, and went home quietly with their tails between their leggs to hopefully fight another day. I am sure this is not the first time they have been defeated badly like this, and I can grantee you it won’t be the last either. I guess it is only more fainful to them because I think it came in the hands of a blackman.
-
09-12-2008 10:55:16 |Unregistered| Tipo William
WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court turned down an emergency appeal yesterday from a New Jersey man who says that President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
The court did not comment on its order rejecting the case from Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., who says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth - his mother was American, and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject - he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the constitutional requirements for eligibility to be president.
At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and Hawaii officials have confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit, and federal courts in Ohio and Washington state have rejected similar lawsuits.
Allegations raised on the Internet say the birth certificate, showing that Obama was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, is a fake. But state officials in Hawaii say they checked health department records and have determined there is no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii
Source:www.boston.com
Latest News/Articles
HONESTY IS STILL THE BEST POLICY. All these allegations came due to the defeat of Senator John McCain. Challenges for John McCain leadership star has crested, and the only way to restore its leadership and influence in the world is to accept the defeat from Gorgeous Barack Obam "It would been foolish to the white-house part to let him Ruled America"