Keyes is ACCUSING him, it is not proven. The previous court threw it out because the Hawaiian Health department says that it's valid. You are implying that a health official is commiting purgery and that a federal judge was obscructing justice.
No, the Supreme Court threw it out because Bergman, as an "ordinary" citizen lacked "standing" to file the suit. Alan Keyes as a Presedential candadite HAS legal standing to file the suit. It might be worth your time to look up "standing" in a legal dictionary.
Their job is to decide legality not facts. If the Health Department says that he was born in Hawaii and there is no admissable or significant evidence to the contrary, then as far as the court is concerned he was born in Hawaii.
Which is why Keyes is suing to gain access to his deceased mother's travel/immigration records and Obama's original Long from birth certificate. In legal speak, it's called "discovery"
On the issue of his status as Natural Born Citizen, at the time his mother was not old enough to confer citizenship on Obama if he had been born abroad. However the law has since changed.
Yes, and the law specificaly did NOT make it retroactive unless the parent was in the millitary or a few other things like the peace corp (which did not exist in 1961 so don't even bother).
McCain since he was born in Panama canal zone, actualy had the senate vote on a resolution stating that he was eligable to run for president to bypass the "natural born citizen" question.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
