New eligibility challenge reaches Supreme Court Attorney calls for recusal of Obama judicial appointees…

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New eligibility challenge reaches Supreme Court

Attorney calls for recusal of Obama judicial appointees

 

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Posted: December 30, 2010
11:00 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Another legal challenge to Barack Obama’s eligibility to occupy the White House has been docketed for consideration before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the plaintiff this time formally is asking that the justices appointed by Obama, the “respondent” in the case, be excluded.

“There is a widespread perception among ‘conservative’ media figures such as Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin that judicial appointments have been made by the respondent Obama with the expectation of favors in return. This has combined with a campaign of ridicule and ‘unthinkability’ on these serious issues led by the press spokesman of the respondent Obama among others,” said a “motion to recuse” submitted by attorneys working on behalf of Gregory S. Hollister, a retired military officer.

The motion cites Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, both of whom were awarded the lifetime tenure positions on probably the most influential court in the world by Obama.

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“What is very much at issue here is the question of public perception. Will this court be bound by the Constitution and the law that it sets out under the Constitution? It is important that this court, above all institutions, preserves and protects the Constitution and a rule of law based upon it,” the motion states.

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It also reminded the justices of the verbal attack they sustained from Obama at last year’s State of the Union address, when Obama publicly criticized their ruling in an election case.

“We would think that this is particularly the case in light of the historically unprecedented attack on this court’s determination to uphold the constitutional rule of law engaged in by the respondent Obama during the State of the Union Address that he gave in January of 2010. It is as if he and those working with him and backing him believe that this court and the federal judiciary can be manipulated and intimidated in the manner that investigations have revealed as having occurred in the courts of Cook County, Illinois.

“We would suggest that this court should particularly avoid the appearance of favoritism as overriding the rule of law based upon the Constitution,” the motion said.

Hollister’s case is one of the longest-running among those challenging Obama’s eligibility. It is scheduled to be heard in “conference” by the Supreme Court justices on Jan. 14.

It is at those conferences that the justices would determine by vote whether the case would be heard. Although proceedings are not public, it is believed that a case must earn four votes among the nine justices before it is heard.

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