H. Brooke Paige represents himself before the Vermont Supreme Court arguing Barack Obama should not have been on Vermont ballots.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130423/NEWS03/304230018/Vt-Supreme-Court-hears-case-challenging-legality-Barack-Obama-s-run-re-election?nclick_check=1
Vt. Supreme Court hears case challenging legality of Barack Obama's run for re-election
Former Republican U.S. Senate hopeful brings case saying Obama is not a 'natural born citizen' because of father's citizenship
Burlington Free Press
Apr. 23, 2013 5:10 PM
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Vermont Court Should Base Its Decision on a Firm “de novo” Examination!
It is important to note that Judge Bent relied principally upon the dicta of Judge Brown at the end of that Courts’ ruling in the “Motion to Dismiss” in Ankeny v. Governor of Indiana 916 N.E. 2d 678 which was by no means conclusive as to the definitional issue and in the end conflates and confuses the meanings of the two distinct and different types of citizenship recognized in our nation, i.e. “Citizens of the United States” and “natural born Citizens”. In the underlying ruling of the Supreme Court in Wong Kim Ark 19 U.S. 662. SCOTUS addressed its understanding of Wong’s status as a “Citizen of the United States”. Further SCOTUS informs us that through Minor and Wong Kim Ark that the definition of a “natural born Citizen” is not found in the Fourteenth Amendment. Despite this fact, Judge Brown, in Ankeny, found “his” definition in the Fourteenth Amendment in the Wong Kim Ark’s holding, which only found Wong to be a “citizen of the United States” at birth under the amendment and not an Article II “natural born Citizen.” For the Vermont Courts to rely on the writings of Judge Brown in Ankeny, rather than to make a “de novo” review of the underlying legacy of the rulings of SCOTUS, is to place reliance in the hands of a Indianan Appeals Court’s Judge (as Judge Bent has done) and while this ruling may be “of interest” , the Vermont Courts are under absolutely no obligation to rely upon it. In the underlying Superior Court action, here in Vermont, the Plaintiff (now Appellant) submitted the, then newly published, “Memorandum of Law” – “Barack Obama is Ineligible to be President, For He Is Neither a ‘Natural Born Citizen’ Nor a ‘Citizen of the United States’, at the Time of the Adoption of this Constitution”, a far more detailed and reasoned study into the SCOTUS legacy of the meaning of “natural born Citizen[ship]“. The Vermont Supreme Court should make a “fresh review” of the underlying history and reach its own scholarly conclusion.
A Good Day for Justice in Vermont!
H. Brooke Paige
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