Birther Lawyer Won't Stop Questioning Obama's Legitimacy Until the Last Court Dismiss

At what point does the court simply declare the president non contentious in this matter and stop the slightest of entertaining these cases?

the courts exist for justice and redress. The birther nonsense has been settled some 4.5 years ago. Cases like this, and lawyers like this are simply clogging the judicial system at this point, preventing a case that needs to be heard, a case that is real, from being dealt with in a timely manner.

Every birther case has eventually been tossed from the court as the nonsense that it is. Lawyers have been fined for their gross waste of our resources. There comes a point where indulgence has been exceeded.

More at the link

http://dcist.com/2012/11/birther_lawyer_wont_stop.php



The D.C. lawyer who keeps filing lawsuits questioning the veracity of President Obama's birth certificate acknowledges that some might find his crusade to disqualify Obama a little absurd, but he has no plans of quitting any time soon.

Montgomery Blair Sibley, whose first case against the president was breezily dismissed by a federal judge in June, is headed to D.C. Superior Court next week in hopes of preventing the District's three Electoral College members from casting their votes to give Obama a second term.

In an interview, Sibley says that this time around, he expects he has far better legal standing to challenge Obama's legitimacy. In the June case, Judge John D. Bates of U.S. District Court ruled that as Sibley was not personally harmed by Obama's election in 2008, he had no legal standing to dispute the president's credibility.

Sibley waged a myopic—and certainly oddball—write-in campaign for president, including policy planks like a 2,300 percent increase in the size of the House of Representatives. Though the District Board of Elections does not release vote totals for individual write-in candidates, Sibley says he'd be shocked if he received more than one. But winning the White House wasn't the point of his run; rather, it was to solidify his newest case.

"I was a candidate, and therefore I do have standing," he says in a phone interview. "Only someone who has an interest in the office can challenge a quo warranto suit." Figuring Obama is interested in retaining the office he currently holds, Sibley argues this set of lawsuits will be seen as legitimate as he believes the president's identifying documents are phony.

But Sibley v. Obama—round 2—won't go before a federal judge until early December, if it gets a court date at all. First, Sibley is looking to get a preliminary injunction next week in D.C. Superior Court that will prevent the District's electors from carrying out their ceremonial duty when the Electoral College meets on December 17.

Moreover, Sibley also calculates the lawsuits will cost him nearly $80,000, though he is acting as his own counsel in this matter. In a memorandum to undisclosed recipients dated November 8 and discovered by DCist, Sibley estimates $34,400 for the direct cost of court filings, printing documents and actual litigation, as well as another $45,000 stipend to cover six months of expenses. In his explanation for the stipend, Sibley writes that he is getting Sibley's legal services for a bargain:

In order to pursue the above described course of litigation, I will need to devote my full time and attention to these matters for a period of six months. If properly publicized, a fair amount of media attention should be created requiring my time to address. As such, I am willing to commit my time to this endeavor for six months for $7,500/month which works out to $45/hour, cheap for the legal skill I bring to this party.


"I always return my own phone calls," he says in the interview.

Why does Sibley keep pushing this issue, though? Every case challenging Obama's birth certificate has been bounced out of court. Aside from a few pissy tweets on November 6, even the most famous birther—Donald Trump—has tamped it down since then, or at least tried to make his position less overt.

Not Sibley.

 

think 9/11 truthers and Kennedy assassination conspiracy wingnuts.

I really believe for a small group of people they are just in search of a conspiracy theory to believe in.

 

It'll never go away. We live in a world where social media dictates what people think. It's the old phrase "the bigger the lie the more people will believe it".