For Immediate Release- 10/26/11
For Further information contact:
Van Irion, Lead Counsel
Liberty Legal Foundation
9040 Executive Park Dr., Ste. 200
Knoxville, TN 37923
(865) 809-1505
van@libertylegalfoundation.com
www.libertylegalfoundation.com
Liberty Legal Foundation and Presidential Candidate John Dummett File Federal and State Lawsuits Against National Democratic Party to Block Certification of Candidate Obama for Inclusion on 2012 Ballot
Important Points:
- Lawsuit asks court to enjoin National Democratic Party from certifying Obama as Constitutionally qualified to hold the office of President
- Lack of certification by Democratic Party would prevent Obama from appearing on the ballot in the 2012 general election
- Lawsuit asks court to confirm Supreme Court’s definition of “natural-born citizen” as having two parents that are BOTH U.S. citizens at time of birth. See Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875).
- Obama’s place of birth and birth certificate are irrelevant and not discussed
Text:
On 10/25/11 Liberty Legal Foundation and John Dummett filed two simultaneous class action lawsuits against the Democratic Party. Both lawsuits request injunctions prohibiting the Party from certifying that Obama is Constitutionally qualified to run for the office of President in the 2012 election. Without such a certification from the Party, Obama will not appear on any ballot in the 2012 general election.
Neither lawsuit discuss Obama’s place of birth or his birth certificate. These issues are completely irrelevant to the argument. LLF’s lawsuit simply points out that the Supreme Court has defined “natural-born citizen” as a person born to two parents who were both U.S. citizens at the time of the natural-born citizen’s birth. Obama’s father was never a U.S. citizen. Therefore, Obama can never be a natural-born citizen. His place of birth is irrelevant.
Despite numerous legal challenges, no lawsuit to date has been able to get a hearing on the merits related to Obama’s natural-born status. LLF has studied all of these cases in order learn from the rulings and avoid the pitfalls that stopped those lawsuits. LLF has learned that all states rely upon the truthfulness of representations made by the political parties, that their candidates are qualified to hold the federal office for which they are nominated. By naming the National Democratic Party as the defendant LLF not only targets the entity responsible for vetting the Democratic candidate, LLF also avoids taking on any state or federal government. The Democratic Party is a private entity, without any government immunities or government procedural advantages.
LLF also learned that Presidential candidates that are registered with the Federal Election Commission have standing to ask a court to keep another candidate off the ballot. Consequently LLF partnered with FEC-registered Presidential Candidate John Dummett. Mr. Dummett is a conservative Republican who believes that the Constitution should be followed.
Because LLF has a lead plaintiff that is a Presidential Candidate, and because that plaintiff is also a Liberty Legal member, Liberty Legal has standing to sue as well. If one plaintiff has standing to sue, all plaintiffs have standing to sue.
Because Liberty Legal has standing to sue, anyone that believes the Constitution should be followed can join this class action lawsuit as a class member! If you agree that the Constitution should be followed, please add your voice to ours. Please join our class action lawsuit to protect the legitimacy of the ballot.
Copies of the filed complaints are attached to this release.
Dated: 10/26/11
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Van Irion
Liberty Legal Foundation
9040 Executive Park Drive, Ste. 200
Knoxville, TN 37923
Attorney for the Plaintiffs
(865) 809-1505
van@libertylegalfoundation.com
www.libertylegalfoundation.com
http://www.libertylegalfoundation.com/certification-class-action/
http://www.libertylegalfoundation.com/1381/no-certification-without-verification/
Not to be negative, but from past court actions, this lawsuit will probably suffer the same fate as all the previous lawsuits.
I always tell people to line up at the DNC to challenge them in their certification of obama as the constitutionally eligible nominee, but they are private so they don’t have to answer to the people.
Now this suit is asking the court to enjoin National Democratic Party from certifying Obama as Constitutionally qualified to hold the office of President.
Since DNC is a private entity they can’t hide behind the ‘no standing’ excuse. Plus the FEC registered pres candidate has ‘standing’.
However, they are asking the court to ‘confirm’ Supreme Court’s definition of “natural-born citizen” as having two parents that are BOTH U.S. citizens at time of birth. See Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875). We can bet our lives that the court will simply drag its feet until it is too late, or hide behind ‘jurisdiction’ and other excuses, such as Congress has to confirm it, or supreme court has to confirm it…..
Plus the court can rule that the plaintiff will have to wait till DNC has submitted the nomination paper to a state and see if the paper ‘certifies’ obama as meeting the constitutional requirement…….(the court can’t rule on something that has not happened yet. Neither can the plaintiff use the 2008 nomination paper , because the paper DID NOT ceritify obama as meeting the constitutional requirement, except the one to the state of Hawaii!)
AND the states’ George-Soros-bought SOSs will put the o name on the ballot before anyone can say cheese or object! Then the primary rolls around, the idiots vote for o and the lawsuit is moot!
Granted any lawsuits might create more awareness, but having a well-known presidential candidate (or ALL the candidates!) challenging obama on his nbc status WILL stun the world. Where are the people who truly want to uphold the constitution? They are all too busy deciding which of the spineless establishment-endorced candidates to support to perpetuate the corrupt, constitution-destroying ‘government’!
The people are there; we are there, but the action that is needed will brand us as militant
extremist in the (blind) eyes of our ever vigilant media.
Nothing is going to change, unless we accept the need and the responsibility as citizens
of our sovereign republic to risk life or shed life to correct the current situation .
Standing is just a myth concocted by lawyers and judges to avoid considering
undesired outcomes. This should have been settled long ago.
These frauds deserve the maximum that law provides, including every one of
the media lap dogs who had the audacity to call him president.
Any news on the LLF website?
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Mrs. Rondeau replies: I was able to get this to work this morning: http://www.libertylegalfoundation.net/
What has happened to the LLF website?? I posted the link on FB yesterday to thousands of people and almost immediately the site went down and still this morning has not returned. Any news? This is very disconcerting.
They did not quote the Minor case correctly and fully. The Minor case defined natural born citizens as those born in a country of parents who were citizens.
While the place of birth is not relevant in the case of Obama since one of his parents was not a US citizen, place of birth is relevant for candidates who were born abroad to two US citizen parents (such as McCain).
I have heard some say that Obama may have had a biological father who was an American citizen, such that Obama would then be a natural born citizen, assuming that his mother was Ann Dunham and that he was born in Hawaii. However, citizenship is established at birth and not at conception, and so it would not matter if Obama had an American citizen biological father, since it is Obama Senior’s name that is on the birth certificate. Obama Senior was the legal father at birth, and so it is Obama Senior’s citizenship that was passed onto Obama Junior.
Let’s hope this one gets somewhere, it’s way past time that we get a break and a court hears a case on its merits!