OBAMA ARGUES AGAINST APPEARING AT ELIGIBILITY HEARING

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OBAMA ARGUES AGAINST APPEARING AT ELIGIBILITY HEARING
'Electors, Congress, not Georgia, hold responsibility for qualifications of candidates'
Published: 3 days ago
by BOB UNRUHE

Barack Obama has outlined a defense strategy for a multitude of state-level challenges to his candidacy on the 2012 presidential ballot in a Georgia case that is scheduled to come before a judge later this month – simply explain that states have nothing to do with the eligibility of presidential candidates.

“Presidential electors and Congress, not the state of Georgia, hold the constitutional responsibility for determining the qualifications of presidential candidates,” Obama’s lawyer argues in a motion to quash a subpoena for him to appear at the hearings Jan. 26.

“The election of President Obama by the presidential electors, confirmed by Congress, makes the documents and testimony sought by plaintiff irrelevant,” the lawyer said.

Hearings have been scheduled for that date for three separate issues to be handled. They all are raised by Georgia residents who are challenging Obama’s name on the 2012 ballot for various reasons, which they are allowed to do under state law.

It is states, usually through the office of secretary of state, that run elections, not the federal government. The national election is simply a compilation of the results of the individual elections within states.

The schedule for the hearings was set by Judge Michael M. Malihi of the Georgia state Office of State Administrative Hearings. In Georgia, a state law requires “every candidate for federal” office who is certified by the state executive committees of a political party or who files a notice of candidacy “shall meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought.”

State law also grants the secretary of state and any “elector who is eligible to vote for a candidate” in the state the authority to raise a challenge to a candidate’s qualifications, the judge determined.

Three different plaintiffs’ groups are lined up for separate hearings, including one represented by California attorney Orly Taitz. She had the judge sign a subpoena for Obama’s testimony, and Michael Jablonski, Obama’s attorney for these cases, argued that he should be exempted.

Jablonski earlier had argued that state eligibility requirements didn’t apply to Obama, but the judge said that isn’t how he reads state law.

The king vs. Georgia

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Curiouser and curiouser.

[FreeBorn]

I fully expect that Glorious Comrade Leader will blow this off and not appear. In which case I hope this judge sticks to his guns and finds Mr. Soetoro in contempt, removes his name from the ballot in Georgia and the Sheriffs of the various counties enforce the measure. 

Convict the Resident of the United States in absentia and we shall see if Big Brother and the Holder Company can get him out of this one.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Maybe at the same time they can make him cough up his college records and give proof of his citizenship. Very interesting.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Even if the "Constitutional scholar" (cough) actually believes that BS argument and for some reason the courts buy it, it's a loser in the court of public opinion.

[5412]

Even if the "Constitutional scholar" (cough) actually believes that BS argument and for some reason the courts buy it, it's a loser in the court of public opinion.

Hi,

The real reason he does not want to appear is likely he will have to perjure himself in his testimony. 

regards,
5412

[thundley4]

Hi,

The real reason he does not want to appear is likely he will have to perjure himself in his testimony. 

regards,
5412

It would be interesting to hear his explanation of the multiple social security numbers associated with his name.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hi,

The real reason he does not want to appear is likely he will have to perjure himself in his testimony. 

regards,
5412

Perjury or not on the actual location of his birth, there are some things that he would have a very difficult answering acceptably without perjuring himself...like whether he renounced US citizenship to attend a Muslim school overseas, or whether he claimed to be a non-US citizen in college or law school applications, which are all possible problems for him.

[docstew]

Hi,

The real reason he does not want to appear is likely he will have to perjure himself in his testimony. 

regards,
5412

Well, what's the accepted penalty for perjury by a sitting President? Loss of a law license? BFD, 0bama already surrendered his to the state of IL.

I don't think it's a losing scenario for him. He gets to play the victim, having to "prove where he was born", and when his name doesn't appear on the ballot, he gets to play the race card ("Those racist crackers in GA won't put me on the ballot cuz I'm black!") and probably sic Holder and the DOiJ on any and all states that have implemented such a requirement.