From the judge assigned to this case, the Hon. R. Barclay Surrick:
Various accounts, details and ambiguities from Obama’s childhood form the basis of Plaintiff’s allegation that Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States. To support his contention, Plaintiff cites sources as varied as the Rainbow Edition News Letter … and the television news tabloid Inside Edition. These sources and others lead Plaintiff to conclude that Obama is either a citizen of his father’s native Kenya, by birth there or through operation of U.S. law; or that Obama became a citizen of Indonesia by relinquishing his prior citizenship (American or Kenyan) when he moved there with his mother in 1967. Either way, in Plaintiff’s opinion, Obama does not have the requisite qualifications for the Presidency that the Natural Born Citizen Clause mandates. The Amended Complaint alleges that Obama has actively covered up this information and that the other named Defendants are complicit in Obama’s cover-up.www.americasright.com...
It seems that the judge considered many things that I also considered about this case. The fact that Philip J. Berg, Esq. used so many dubious sources in support of his argument that Barack Obama was not eligible to run for POTUS.
Even early this morning, around 6 AM I wrote a post that highlighted part of the nature of Berg's complaint. (I did not know that a ruling had been made on the case, and the story was only reported at sometime between 10 and 11 AM this morning.) That is seemed like he was implying collusion between the three parties named in the complaint: Obama, the DNC, and the FEC. I thought that was not the best way to go since Berg really is supposed to be after the truth of Obama's citizenship status.
The judge also statesin his ruling:
…regardless of questions of causation, the grievance remains too generalized to establish the existence of an injury in fact. To reiterate: a candidate’s ineligibility under the Natural Born Citizen Clause does not result in an injury in fact to voters. By extension, the theoretical constitutional harm experienced by voters does not change as the candidacy of an allegedly ineligible candidate progresses from the primaries to the general election.www.americasright.com...
As in other cases, such as three that were dismissed against Senator John McCain, the plaintiff, Berg, could not show an INJURY IN FACT.
Berg plans to appeal.
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[edit on 25-10-2008 by Areal51]
