Oh well. H. Brooke “I am NOT a birther!” Paige has had his day in court, and has been swatted down in quite emphatic fashion.
Paige, losing candidate in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, sought to remove President Obama from the Vermont ballot. Paige did not allege that Obama was foreign-born; rather, he promulgated an arcane interpretation of the phrase “natural born citizen” that would have required the President’s father to have been a citizen at the time of Obama’s birth, thus disqualifying Obama from the Presidency and rendering the last four years, oh, I don’t know, a figment of our collective imagination.
Well, Washington County Judge Robert Bent laid the wood to Paige* in dismissing the suit:
*Paywall warning: link is to the Freeploid.
The court has been presented with a radically insufficient basis on which to issue a temporary or even a preliminary injunction.
… The myriad versions of the claim that President Obama is ineligible for office because he is not a ‘natural born citizen’ have been litigated throughout the country exhaustively. They have never succeeded, usually on standing or jurisdictional bases.
Paige told the Freeploid that “he was undeterred by the decision,” whatever that means. (I’m sure he will enlighten us in the Comments below.)
It has been said that donkeys are undeterred by a thwack upside the head with a 2×4.
Once again no information, No Problem at the GMD! The Judge struck down the three motions that were presented.
1) allowance for substitute service – the Judge ruled until the USPS can confirm delivery that the Court does not consider Mr. Obama as served. Additional, service of process by regular mail, Fedex Overnight Service AND by publication in the newspaper of record in the town where Mr. Obama resides will be sufficient, since Plaintiff will then have used every available method recognized by the Court.
2) Consistent with the underlying action – Plaintiff requested that the Secretary of State’s Division of Elections withhold the production and distribution of Election Ballots until …”. The Court ruled that it was in the best interest of the citizens of Vermont to proceed. Should the Plaintiff succeed on the merits, several alternate remedies, proposed by the plaintiff would sufficiently resolve the issue of the “defective Ballots”.
3) the issue of the “gag order” to allow the case to proceed upon its merits, rather than having every step in the process subjected to microscopic dissection by the “no facts / no problem” gang. This case is an disagreement as to the law not an exciting murder trial. Constitutional Law is as dry as the desert and no amount of “theater” from you folks is going to make this exciting.This motion was to allow Plaintiff to enter on the record the foolish partisan machination by the Attorney General’s Office, leaking documents before perfected service allowed the case made public and all of the “Loud Talking” about aggressively defending the case. What are Bill’s Boys and Girls talking about, it is the Sec of States Division Of Elections who instructed me to apply to the Superior Court to pursue this action under Title 17 – there IS NO adversarial relationship between the Plaintiff and the State, in fact there is no controversy as to the evidence – only a legal argument as to the Constitutional qualifications for President. I had really hoped to keep this low key for a lot longer, however!
So now tell me again how you concluded that the case was dismissed. The case is alive and well. Do I have difficulties to over come YOU BET, this is no walk in the park by any stretch of the imagination. Plaintiff has the service of process resolved – now for the tough part. This case is distinctly different than the forty or so cases that have played out (and are now proceeding) across the nation. Plaintiff has a real burden to overcome, much of it by convincing the Court that many of the prior cases were ill-conceived by the Plaintiffs/Complainants and some of the rulings by Judges in other States were outlandish. For example a New Jersey Appellate Court Judge ruled that he didn’t care whose name was on the ballot – “they could put Mickey Mouse”s name on the ballot for all I care!” – I am expecting far a far more considered decision in this case.
So put your tinfoil hat back on – take a deep breath and relax -in a few weeks the case will be over one way or the other.
H. Brooke Paige, Plaintiff, pro se.
your fifteen minutes of relevance are at an end.
stop covering this
I know it’s been entertaining but at what point should GMD say “we’re not going to give this guy any more (virtual) ink”