Three judges on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are beginning to review a case that alleges Barack Obama is not eligible to be president and may not even be American.The federal court case, brought by attorney Mario Apuzzo on behalf of plaintiffs Charles Kerchner and others, had been dismissed at the district court level.Arguments earlier had been scheduled for June 29 in the dispute, but a court order recently canceled the hearing and instead announced the case would be decided based on the merits of the legal briefs submitted by attorneys.A document from court clerk Marcia Waldron said the case will be decided by Judge Dolores Sloviter, who was appointed by Jimmy Carter; Maryanne Trump Barry, appointed by Bill Clinton; and Thomas Hardiman, appointed by George W. Bush.
The filings were due on the day the hearing would have been held, but there's no published timetable for a decision to be released.
The case argues Obama probably is not even a U.S. citizen, much less a "natural born citizen" as required by the U.S. Constitution of the chief executive officer,
On a blog dealing with the case, lead plaintiff Kerchner has delivered updates.
The case filed was against Obama, Congress and others, just before Obama was sworn into office.The case has argued, "Under the British Nationality Act of 1948 his father was a British subject/citizen and not a United States citizen and Obama himself was a British subject/citizen at the time Obama was born."We further contend that Obama has failed to even conclusively prove that he is at least a 'citizen of the United States' under the Fourteenth Amendment as he claims by conclusively proving that he was born in Hawaii," the arguments have claimed.
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The case is over whether the plaintiffs have standing to sue. If the appeals court decides that they have standing to sue, it goes back to a lower court to settle the Natural Born status question. That is unlikely.
Mike Fooks, I'm sure Hillary would have seized on it, but McCain is spineless. You lose credibility though bringing up Sarah Palin. She is not dumb and she doesn't represent all Republicans, she's back alot of candidates that the GOP hasn't-the Tea Party People. Democrats don't like her because she relates to everyday people in ways that the liberal women in office can't or won't-see Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. She is also not a "kooky" birther.
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