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Kentucky elections officer asks Attorney General to investigate Obama's eligibility

Is Barack H. Obama a natural born American citizen? Kentucky may soon join a growing list of states and private individuals going to court to challenge the credentials of Obama to be president of the United States. Questions about Obama's birth place were being raised even before he was elected.  He claims to have been born in Honolulu, but because he has repeatedly refused to release a copy of his birth certificate, which would put such questions to rest, dozens of lawsuits have been filed challenging his eligibility to serve as president under the Constitution's "natural born citizen" clause.  In Hawaii, birth certificates are confidential, and not public records.

According to Bob Unruh, reporting in WorldNetDaily, Deputy Assistant Kentucky Secretary of State Leslie A. Fugate has asked state Attorney General Jack Conway for an investigation into the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.  In a letter to Conway, Fugate questioned "President Barack Obama's eligibility to be on the ballot in Kentucky."  "Because our office does not have investigative powers … we are referring the matter to your office," he wrote.


Leslie A. Fugate
A committee of concerned citizens accompanied California attorney Orly Taitz, of the  Defend Our Freedoms Foundation to Fugate's office to ask that the eligibility issue be investigated.  Conway, who announced Monday that he is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, has yet to respond to the letter publicly.
 
The questions raised over Obama's eligibility are all very simple: The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
 

According to legal experts, at the time of Obama's birth he could be a natural born citizen by being born in the United States, by being born to two U.S. citizen parents (not possible because of his father), or, if only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of the birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least 10 years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.

The problem is, Obama's mother was only 18 when she gave birth, so his only apparent route to "natural born" citizenship status would have been to be born in Hawaii.
 
Further complicating the issue are the reports he was adopted by his mother’s Indonesian husband during his childhood and moved to Indonesia and attended school there, using the name “Barry Soetoro.”  Years later, Obama traveled to Pakistan using his Indonesian passport.
 
In interviews, Obama’s paternal grandmother has stated that she was present when he was born in Mombassa, Kenya.
 
Here is a partial listing and status update for some of the cases over Obama's eligibility:
 
 
  • New Jersey attorney Mario Apuzzo has filed a case on behalf of Charles Kerchner and others alleging Congress didn't properly ascertain that Obama is qualified to hold the office of president.
  • Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania Democrat, demanded that the courts verify Obama's original birth certificate and other documents proving his American citizenship. Berg's latest appeal, requesting an injunction to stop the Electoral College from selecting the 44th president, was denied.
  • Leo Donofrio of New Jersey filed a lawsuit claiming Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court but denied a full hearing. 
  • Cort Wrotnowski filed suit against Connecticut's secretary of state, making a similar argument to Donofrio. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court, but was denied a full hearing.
  • Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes headlines a list of people filing a suit in California, in a case handled by the United States Justice Foundation, that asks the secretary of state to refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office. The case is pending, and lawyers are seeking the public's support.
  • Chicago attorney Andy Martin sought legal action requiring Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle to release Obama's vital statistics record. The case was dismissed by Hawaii Circuit Court Judge Bert Ayabe.
  • Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Electoral College vote in North Carolina until Barack Obama's eligibility could be confirmed, alleging doubt about Obama's citizenship. His case was denied.
  • In Ohio, David M. Neal sued to force the secretary of state to request documents from the Federal Elections Commission, the Democratic National Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and Obama to show the presidential candidate was born in Hawaii. The case was denied.
  • In Washington state, Steven Marquis sued the secretary of state seeking a determination on Obama's citizenship. The case was denied.
  • In Georgia, Rev. Tom Terry asked the state Supreme Court to authenticate Obama's birth certificate. His request for an injunction against Georgia's secretary of state was denied by Georgia Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter.
 

Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be President of the United States

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Veteran Louisville attorney Thomas McAdam has spent his 40 year career observing local politics, including nine years, as counsel to the Louisville Board of Aldermen.

Comments

  • Lester 3 years ago

    I agree!!!

    Did u teabag anyone today?

  • Wha The 3 years ago

    Certainly Obama's eligibility as president is highly important and should not be ignored, if it were any white guy with the same problem, everyone would be calling foul. But the real problem here is not the president persay, but really it's the congress men and women who are using Obama as their puppet. Most notibly: Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank, with Reed, Geithner, and the new Homeland Security person (Pelantino? Ahhh I can't remember how to spell, but you know who I'm talking about. The person who basically said all returning veterans from the military were the next terrorist threats, you know, that anti-American woman who is in charge of our Homeland Security).

    Obama doesn't really make any decisions, he just follows suit and portrays the "role" as president so that his socialist cohorts can ruin our country from within in our own tax code. We don't need to be teabagging anyone (place inappropriate pun here), we need to be bringing, and sending, tea bags to Washington D.C. and forcing the government to PURGE these ant-American officials who have shown in their entire professional career that they are here to destroy what our founding fathers fought and died for 233 years ago.

    Stand up for your rights, America. Stand up against these liberals and conservatives who say one thing, and do something completely else. Do you know what they call someone who says they're doing one thing and then physically do something completely different? They either call them a liar or a hypocrite, and rightly so. I, for one, am an American who is tired, fed up, and DONE with being lied to by my government, and seeing all these rich government officials blow our money like they have the right to send people to the poor house. Hypocracy is just a different shade of lying, but a lie is a lie. Stop lying to your people, or your people will stop paying their taxes.

    No Taxation Without Representation

  • MichaelN 1 year ago

    Part 1 of 3

    Part 1 of 2

    Calvin can only be a 'natural born subject' by 'nature and birthright' and not by birthright alone................ jus sanguinis AND jus soli ................ THAT is what was THE quintessential characterization of Calvin as a natural born subject

    I'll put it to you in simple form.

    From reading Lord Coke (Calvin's case)
    The alien parent father, visiting England was considered a 'subject'[noun] of the sovereign by virtue of his presence in the dominion i.e. 'local allegiance', 'legal allegiance', 'denizen', etc.

    Nothing to do with 'subject to the jurisdiction' as this would be descriptive of an alien who would have 'legal allegiance' and would be required to take an oath of allegiance to the sovereign.

    Now, because of the alien father's 'subject' [noun] status, a child born in the dominion, (of that same sovereign) to the 'subject' father is a 'natural born subject' by 'nature and birthright'.

    e.g. the alien father would hold 'birthright' in the dominion of his birth and can only be a 'subject' [noun] by 'nature' where he is alien.

    Continue reading on Examiner.com: Full Faith and Credit - National birther movement | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/birther-movement-in-national/full-faith-and-cred...

  • MichaelN 1 year ago

    Part 2 of 3

    For the child, this 'nature' is because of the 'subject' father's allegiance AND 'birthright', because the child is born in the dominion of the alien father who is a 'subject' of the sovereign.

    'nature and birthright' therefore means jus sanguinis AND jus soli.

    This 'natural born subject' has the qualities called 'alta allegiance, high allegiance, pure, natural, permanent and absolute'.

    The alien father's allegiance can be either 'local allegiance', which is described as 'mean, small and extremely uncertain', or it may be by denizen, or by 'legal allegiance', but for an alien to be a 'subject' per 'legal allegiance, (akin to subject TO the jurisdiction)he must swear an oath of allegiance to the sovereign.

    Bottom line is that 'in the land' relates to the citizenship 'subject' right of the FATHER in the first instance.

    The father is a 'subject' by nature, due to The Law of Nature, but not by birthright.

    Continue reading on Examiner.com: Full Faith and Credit - National birther movement | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/birther-movement-in-national/full-faith-and-cred...

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    Part 3 of 3

    Lord Coke:

    By this Law of Nature is the Faith, Ligeance, and Obedience of the Subject due to his Sovereign

    There is found in the law four kinds of ligeances: the first is, ligeantia naturalis, absoluta, pura, et indefinita,42 and this originally is due by nature and birthright, and is called alta ligeantia42a
    [42a. ][Ed.: high allegiance.]
    And it is to be observed, that it is nec coelum, nec solum,54 neither the climate nor the soyl, but ligeantia and obedientia that make the subject born

    It is the 'subject' status of the father AND being born in the dominion of the same sovereign which the father is subject to, that the child of that 'subject' [noun] father is a 'natural born subject' by 'nature AND birthright'. i.e. jus sanguinis AND jus soli.

  • MichaelN 1 year ago

    The US does NOT make aliens visiting US automatic citizens like the English DO make visiting aliens 'subjects'.

    So to be consistent with English common law as is suggested by SCOTUS, the alien visiting US would need to become a citizen first to be able to produce a 'natural born Citizen'.

  • Matthew 3 years ago

    I'm sure I speak for a large segment of the Christian community when I say the darkness brought by Obama's unconstitutional usurpation of the Presidency seems almost consequential in light of Christian complacency and apathy leading up to this point. It's time for the church of the living God to come together in unprecedented unity to allow the Holy Spirit freedom of operation in this present dispensation.

    There are giants in the land. The future of this nation depends solely on how American Christians see the battle. For decades it's been business as usual. It's time to take a new approach to our relationship and calling. It's time to actually obey God for a change. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

    While Alex Jones and others report the 'real' news in hopes of mobilizing Americans to rise up in opposition to the globalist's agenda, we, who call on the name of the Lord of life, Jesus Christ, must begin to mobilize in unity through repentance, relationship and humility before our God. He is the only one capable of dealing with these problems. He is the only one who will heal our land. We must gain His strategy, His mindset, and His favor if we're going to see America continue as a formidable foe against the darkness that presently covers our land.

  • DFco 74 2 years ago

    This is ridiculous, an attempt to distract the elected president in this time of war. Even the right wing radio hosts will not even touch this subject which to me means it has almost no viability. The right wing radio hosts constantly attack the President why not talk about this issue which if found to be true would remove him from office and permanently damage the Democratic party? People like Limbaugh speak to 20 Million people a day, they throw any dirt they can why not this? If there was any truth to this it would be blasted on the airwaves, I have never heard it mentioned.

  • dave 2 years ago

    why did you stupid people put a black chicago thug, in the WHITE house.

  • Anonymous 3 months ago

    You people are BIBLE THUMPING RIGHT WING NUT JOBS who belong in the Middle Ages...

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