skippy the bush kangaroo: scotus refuses to consider nutjobs

Monday, December 08, 2008

scotus refuses to consider nutjobs

the supremes have decided not to review mr. goofypants' plea to demand that obama admit he's a godless alien. steve benen:

high court turns down obama eligibility case.... a disappointment, to be sure, for unhinged, right-wing conspiracy theorists everywhere. the ap reports:

the supreme court has turned down an emergency appeal from a new jersey man who says 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 monday rejecting the call by leo donofrio of east brunswick, n.j., to intervene in the presidential election. donofrio 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 requirements the constitution lists for eligibility to be president.

donofrio also contends that two other candidates, republican john mccain and socialist workers candidate roger calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.

how non-partisan of him.

so, it's all over? donofrio's case is, but, alas, he's not the only one pursuing the issue. robert barnes notes that there are two related cases filed at the supreme court -- neither of which have been considered by the justices -- in addition to many more suits in the lower courts on the same issue. the "most celebrated" of the suits was filed by philip j. berg of lafayette hill, pa., who continues to insist that obama was born in kenya, and might possibly be a citizen of indonesia.

federal courts in pennsylvania have dismissed berg's lawsuit. go figure.

for more on why all of this is easily-dismissed far-right nonsense, take a look at this piece from david weigel, and this one from my friend alex koppelman.

of course, the election of obama alone did not ensure that craziness will disappear. there's still work to be done.

posted by skippy at 3:44 PM |

3 Comments:

But seriously...discounting that this fella is a spittle flinging, rascist ,Democrat hating, reincaranation of that Southern Senator Paragon of Manly Virtue, Strom Thurmond... and taking all other things as being equal (or at least slightly right wing).. They had their hands tied here..I mean , IF they gave this case merit..then they would Have to discount John Mccain as well...
Right??
And I doubt they were interested in doing that...

These are the guys who AWARDED the presidency to Bush...
They aren't looking to have that act and anything else like it be the defining moment in their individual careers ...

BUT I think they are too late.... They are going down in the books as hackneyed , paid off , water carriers for the GOP...
ANYTHING they do now is just added state, the central definition remains...
And sadly that goes for the liberal ones almost as much...Maybe I don't understand jurisprudence at a level such as this , that does not in any way diminish my ability to Learn...and I have not seen a thing in the intervening years to make me feel confident about the SCOUTUS scroutums..

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Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J.,, 5:13 PM PST

Obama inaugurated 1/20/09? No way. No how. Read this: http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin186.htm

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Ted, 3:51 AM PST

The Reich-wingnuts will do everything they can to keep Obama from doing his job. They did the same to Clinton, even went so far as to impeach him when there really wasn't cause to do so. Finally tried to get him over a blowjob. This is standard procedure for them, keeping throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks. I'm afraid it will be worse with Obama and I just hope he has good people that will able to fight anything they try to use against him.

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Kulkuri, 7:30 AM PST

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