Ballot Challenge Hearing in “Obama’s Mother’s” Home State
Posted by By GeorgeM at 14 September, at 06 : 41 AM Print
Above: A young Ann Dunham in Kansas
Obama Birther Challenge Subject Of Kansas Objections Board Hearing
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Communications Coordinator Joseph Montgomery 785-532-4193 jmontgom@vet.k-state.edu |
Kansas officials plan to hold a hearing Thursday afternoon to weigh whether President Barack Obama is a citizen and should appear on the state’s November ballot.
The Kansas Objections Board will be considering a challenge filed by Joe Montgomery, a Manhattan resident, who Monday objected to Obama being on the ballot. He claims the president is not an American citizen since his father was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Kenya. The all-Republican board — which consists of Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and Attorney General Derek Schmidt — has the power to remove Obama from the ballot in his mother’s home state.
Montgomery, the communications coordinator for the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University, said in his filing that he does not believe Obama meets the criteria for citizenship because of his father’s citizenship. He cites several Supreme Court rulings in the filing, which he says validate his argument. In the filing, Montgomery said that the rulings show a “natural born citizen” is a person born of two American citizens.
Montgomery wrote:
Barack Obama, according to multiple sources, was not born to a citizen father. His father was never even admitted to this country as a resident alien. Barack Obama Sr. retained his British and Kenyan citizenship and passed them onto his son, which Mr. Obama has publicly claimed on his Fight the Smears website. The Supreme Court specified that natural-born citizenship inherently excludes dual citizenship through a citation in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (which was citing U.S. v Rhodes, noting that one could only be a British subject or a natural-born citizen, and not hold both citizenships): All persons born in the allegiance of the King are natural-born subjects, and all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/obama-birther-kansas_n_1880957.html
The board should ask Ken Bennett the how-to’s of getting a verification in lieu of birth certificate. Perhaps they can obtain it in fewer than three months, unlike Ken who was on the steep end of the learning curve.
Monday will find the board rejecting Montgomery’s objection. Montgomery can still file a court challenge, however, although he’s better keep an eye on the deadline. Hint: It’s one day next week.
Real Lawyer, 8 months ago