I call Godwin -- from the complaint --"Without the anti-majoritarian protection of theConstitution, Congress could legalize the killing of all Jews, for example, as was donein World War II Germany. Constitutional requirements are absolute, and must befollowed regardless of how popular or unpopular such requirements may be, becausethey are in place to protect the minority from the majority."

I do however, wish that this lawsuit would make it to the Supreme Court for one simple reason -- to address this comment in the lawsuit "Instead, thiscomplaint is directed towarddefining the term “natural- born citizen” under theConstitution of the United States, and toward negligence or intentionalmisrepresentations of the Democratic Party. This Complaint requests this Court toaffirmthe Supreme Court’sdefinition of “natural- born citizen” as “all children bornin a country of parents who were its citizens.” See Minor v. Happersett , 88 U.S. 162(1875)."

I believe these folks would not like the answer they would get.

BTW, why is it the birther lawyers seem incapable of proof reading their briefs? I count at least 7 typos in just these last 2 sentences I quoted. If they can't do something as simple as running spell check on these briefs, how can they expect to deal with more complex issues of law? My cats could do better than these bozos. (Too bad we can't file a class action lawsuit against "stupid".)

Orly Taitz is nowhere to be seen. But the spirit of Phil Berg/Lisa Liberi seems to have infected the complaint:


It's interesting that Van Irion commands fidelity to the "natural born Citizen" clause but consistently refers to the status as "natural-born citizen." And it's all based on a specious interpretation of Minor v. Happersett, which is constantly referred to in the complaint. Where's Wong Kim Ark?

Sloppy pleading, sloppy thinking, no standing, unripe. It will soon be dismissed.

Just FYI - I find nothing on the website for the TN Chancery Court of Shelby County what indicates the TN case posted on LLF's website has yet been filed.

I'll keep a lookout and will post when it appears.

I began a thread for the federal case in AZ.

Who are these other plaintiffs? Do they have "FEC standing" like Dummett?

Why Arizona? To take advantage of that delicious "9th Circuit dicta" they keep harping on?

Maroney on Teh Facebook.

An article on foreclosure investing by Volodarsky on ATLAH's site(!).

P&E: Liberty Legal Foundation Website Hacked

P&E also has this caption:

Didn't the suit go out of its way to say that is not what it is about?

LLF does say that, but then they throw every birther meme that's ever been stated in to the Complaint.

I think it’s all made crystal clear in Paragraph 39(2). Creg Maroney is a typical member of the class of "[a]ll persons in the United States of America who object to having a candidate that is clearly not qualified to hold the office of President appear on ballots for the office of President in the general election (the ‘Class’)."

Circular reasoning much?

If your only tool is a hammer....

Leave it to a slip-and-fall lawyer to frame Presidential eligibility as a matter of prospective negligence -- IOW, an accident a wreck waiting to happen. He even goes so far as to suggest that the "reasonable person" test applies:



This reminds me of the old days when Orly was obsessed with the term "foreseeability" and made sure to sprinkle that word generously throughout her pleadings.

Presidential candidate Volodarsky hasn't filed anything with the FEC.

Just sayin'!

So when is John Dummett going to provide proof that his parents were US citizens at the time of his birth?

pfffffffft Doesn't matter.

As Mr. Van Irion stated on LLF, if there's one plaintiff with standing then they all have standing. He don't need no steeeeeeeeenkin' other candidate.

You really need to keep up with this stuff.

They have "perfect standing." Like Orly.

FIFY

P&E comment:

Please do. Look at the proposed complaint. Unlike the federal complaint, it parades all the birther memes (except for "Born in Kenya"):

1. Two citizen parents and birth in the United States required (Minor);
2. Dual citizenship precludes natural-born citizenship;
3. Dual U.S./Indonesian citizenship (and a hint of loss of U.S. citizenship);
4. Travel ban to Pakistan;
5. Fulbright scholarship;
6. Connecticut Social Security Number;
7. E-Verify; and
8. "Volumes of other evidence."

Yeah, I read that earlier and then immediately worked on finding out how to access the court docket.

Add Chris to the list of birtherlaw experts.

Amazing. Whole sections read as though they've been lifted with only minor copy edits from the great works of Dr. Orly Thai-Eats, Esquire.

At first glance, I thought this suit was simply a cut-and-paste of the federal suit -- and most of it is. Oh sure, they swapped in a couple of Tennessee code sections conveying equity powers to the Chancery Courts. But at the same time, they've left in place a whole bunch of inapposite federal poo pertaining to standing and class action proceedings.

This is barely better, if at all, than one of the Chaleria's broadsides.

As I've observed before, calling President Obama "Barry Soetoro" panders to the lunatics and indicates to any judicial officer reading a pleading with that sobriquet that the litigants doing so are completely nuts and not to be taken seriously. So it was good of Van Irion to put that on page 3, footnote 2:

By the way, I love things like that. How many other "Mr. Obamas" are mentioned in the proposed complaint.

"Uh-huh."

Yeah, and the check's in the mail, an I'll respect you in the morning, and really, Officer, I was just helping the poor little sheep over the fence, and damn right I won that buckle in a rodeo, etc.

Saying that makes it sound professional, like them lawyer types do it.

Has anyone pointed out to the birfers, if they claim the "parents" plural requires "both parents" to be US citizens, wouldn't the "children" plural require the parents to have more than one child? An only-child of US citizen parents would, therefore, not be a natural-born US citizen.

'Zactly. This is the logical conclusion that keeps Leo and Mario up at night and brings the cold sweats to all those who live and die to spew Vattle Prattle.

To be eligible to be President of the Ewe-Ess-Of-Ay, all of a candidate's siblings, of which there must be at least one, must have been born in the US to two parents who were citizens at the times of their birfs. It's simplicity personified.

Only-children need not apply.