I Was A Constitutional Lawyer â LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE. Between 1993 and 2002, Barack Obama worked as a civil rights lawyer with the Chicago law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill â LIAR, you didnât write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
The email also claims that âBarack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Chicago.â Thatâs technically true. As we wrote back in 2008, Obamaâs formal title was âsenior lecturer,â but the University of Chicago Law School says he âserved as a professorâ and was âregarded asâ a professor.
Michelle Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, and was admitted as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of Illinois on May 12, 1989. Following graduation, she joined Sidley Austin, a corporate law firm in Chicago. But a few years later, in 1994, while working for the Public Allies project in Chicago,...
When he returned to Chicago after law school, he did some voter-registration work and then joined a civil-rights practice. In 1996, he ran for the state senate. Eight years later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and within a year after that he was exploring a run for president.
President Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and was admitted as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of Illinois on Dec. 17, 1991. Prior to being elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, he worked as a civil rights lawyer at the firm formerly known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland.
Michelle Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, and was admitted as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of Illinois on May 12, 1989. Following graduation, she joined Sidley Austin, a corporate law firm in Chicago.
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996.
He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application.
Then, after becoming president, he elected to change his status to âretiredâ in February 2009.
A: No. A court official confirms that no public disciplinary proceeding has ever been brought against either of them, contrary to a false Internet rumor. By voluntarily inactivating their licenses, they avoid a requirement to take continuing education classes and pay hundreds of dollars in annual fees.
On January 20, 2009, Orly Taitz filed a lawsuit in federal court, Alan Keyes et al v. Barack H. Obama et al against Obama, with Wiley Drake as one of the named parties for the plaintiff. On July 13, 2009, the presiding judge dismissed the case without prejudice on technical grounds, and on July 14, 2009, Taitz refiled a "First Amended Complaint" Captain Pamela Barnett v. Barack Hussein Obama on behalf of Alan Keyes, Wiley Drake, Cynthia Davis, Gail Lightfoot, several other local politicians, and various armed service members. Taitz sought a declaratory judgment that Obama is ineligible for office and an injunction to void his actions and appointments as President.
On January 20, 2009, Attorney Mario Apuzzo filed a lawsuit in federal court, on behalf of Charles Kerchner and other plaintiffs, suing President-Elect Barack Obama, the United States Congress, Dick Cheney, and Nancy Pelosi alleging Obama was ineligible to be president, and that Congress failed to verify Obama's eligibility. A federal district court in New Jersey dismissed the suit, ruling the plaintiffs lacked standing. On July 3, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, citing Berg v. Obama, affirmed the dismissal, and ordered Apuzzo to show cause why he should not be sanctioned for initiating a frivolous appeal. Apuzzo's subsequent request for a hearing was denied, but the order to show cause was discharged. On November 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court declined, without comment, to hear the case.
The suit was originally filed as a Freedom of Information Act case , but was amended to a judicial challenge to Obama's qualifications for the Office of President of the United States. Essek sought to prevent the inauguration of Barack Obama on the grounds that Obama was not a natural born citizen based on allegations that Obama was born in Kenya. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove dismissed the suit because of a lack of subject matter jurisdiction, stating that Mr. Essek's grievance was the generalized grievance of a voter, not a specific injury that would have granted him standing to sue.
In May 2012, Thomas Scheveck filed a complaint with the South Dakota Board of Elections, arguing that Obama is not a natural-born citizen because his father was not a U.S. citizen. Scheveck cited the Supreme Court's ruling in Minor v. Happersett to support his claim that only a person born of two American parents can qualify as a natural-born citizen. Scheck also alleged Obama had been using a fraudulent birth certificate and Social Security Number. In a unanimous decision on May 11, the elections board dismissed the complaint, citing a lack of jurisdiction to consider allegations of the type raised by Scheveck.
Walter Fitzpatrick III was unsuccessful in persuading the foreperson of the Monroe County, Tennessee, grand jury to indict Obama for treason because of Obama's purported ineligibility to serve as President. In response, in April 2010, Fitzpatrick accused the foreperson of violating State laws governing the length of time that a foreperson can serve and attempted to make a citizen's arrest. Fitzpatrick and Darren Huff of Georgia, who assisted him, were prosecuted by Tennessee for disrupting a meeting of the grand jury.
In July 2012, Susan Daniels filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Ohio Secretary of State from placing Obama' s name on the November 2012 ballot due to his alleged use of a fraudulent Social Security number.
By early 2012, dozens of lawsuits had been filed challenging Obama's eligibility in states including North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Connecticut, New Jersey, Texas and Washington. No suit or challenge resulted in the grant of any relief to the plaintiffs by any court or other body.
In January 2012, President Obama appointed three members of the National Labor Relations Board, as well as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, during what he considered to be a Senate recess. But the Senate was still holding âpro formaâ sessions every three daysâa technique developed by Sen. Harry Reid to thwart Bush recess appointments. (Meanwhile, the DoddââFrank Act, which created the CFPB, provides that authority remains with the Treasury Secretary until a director is âconfirmed by the Senate.â) In 2014, Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the NLRB appointments were illegal, while last year the D.C. Circuit found the CFPBâs structure to be unconstitutional.
In the works throughout the Obama presidency, the Open Internet Rule was adopted in February 2015 and went into effect that June, forbidding internetââservice providers (ISPs) from prioritizing different kinds of internet traffic.
The late Justice Scaliaâs last public act was to join an order staying the rule pending further litigation (or , as is likely, a rescinding of the rule). 8. The WOTUS Rule. In May 2015, the EPA announced its new Clean Water Rule, which aims to protect streams and wetlands from pollution.
Obama instead claimed that hundreds of missile strikes and dozens of air missions didnât trigger the WPA because they only constituted âkinetic military actionâ rather than war.
The Justice Department has even suffered nearly 50 unanimous losses, half again as many as under George W. Bush or Bill Clinton. These cases have come in such disparate areas as criminal procedure, religious liberty, property rights, immigration, securities regulation, tax law, and the separation of powers.
Obamacare Implementation. One can, and many have, written whole articles about how the Affordable Care Act is such an affront to the rule of law that its individual mandate and Medicaid coercionâboth of which Chief Justice John Roberts rewroteâare just the tip of the lawless iceberg.
A lack of congressional acquiescence didnât stop this president. Even in Obamaâs first term, the administration launched a âWe Canât Waitâ initiative, with senior aide Dan Pfeiffer explaining that âwhen Congress wonât act, this president will.â.
The 4 th Circuit of Appeals joined the federal appeals court in D.C. and Philadelphia in ruling on July 17, 2013 that President Obamaâs National Labor Relations Board recess appointments who by law, must be approved by Congress, were unconstitutional. The president thus far has ignored the ruling.
responsibility, and a Supreme Court with top judicial authority. While the president has authority to check the Legislative Branch by recommending legislation to be passed by Congress, or through presidential veto, he or she cannot legislate through executive fiat or pick which parts of the law to comply with or decline.
Obamaâs illegal NLRB sued in April 2010 to shut down the Boeing Companyâs new $750 million Dreamliner plant in right-to-work South Carolina because Obama union supporters objected. Besides, the Constitution doesnât confer the federal government power to tell businesses where they can and canât operate.
A central and sustaining purpose of that guiding document is to preserve individual liberties and restrain government from grabbing unlimited power.
As a constitutional lecturer and presumed legal scholar, his academic career must have crossed paths at some time with our nationâs founding document which established three co-equal branches of government, an Executive Branch, a Congress with legislative. responsibility, and a Supreme Court with top judicial authority.
In June 2012, following a 16-month investigation, the House of Representatives voted to hold Holder in Contempt of Congress for his continued refusal to produce requested documents about the scandal. He was the first-ever sitting Cabinet member to be held in contemptâŚincluding both criminal and civil violations.
Yet attacking a state for upholding federal law would again seem to violate the Tenth Amendment which says âThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.â. Arizona didnât add any new laws.
Thatâs because the Constitution was intended as a limiting document, to curtail the power of the federal government vis-Ă -vis the states and the individual. Barack Obama wants to reverse that entirely.
Bergâs case was dismissed on October 24 by Judge Barclay Surrick, but he promptly took the case before Judge David Souter of the Supreme Court, whose disposition is anticipated before the election on Tuesday, November 4 If no judgment is rendered, Berg anticipates that if Obama is elected, a Constitutional crisis will ensue.
On February 10, 2007, Senator Barack Obama stood outside the Old State Capitol building in Illinois and announced his intention to run for the presidency. âI recognize there is a certain presumptuousness, a certain audacity, to this announcement,â Obama said. âI know I havenât spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington.
In truth, Barack Obama was an anti-constitutionalist professor. He studied the Constitution and he flatly rejected it. He doesnât like the Constitution.
Selwyn Duke, in the American Thinker, writes, âLeftistsâŚcould attempt to change the Constitution so that it reflects their agenda, but this is a long, drawn-out, difficult process that requires, of all things, actual public support for your aims.
Upon hearing a tape of the interview, Ed Morrissey of CaptainsQuarters blog fame, âThe government does not exist to determine the acceptable level of wealth of its individual citizens. For government to assume that role, it would have to end private property rights and assume all property belonged to the State.
In short, Berg has insisted that Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen, was possibly born on foreign soil to an American mother and Kenyan father, may hold dual American-Indonesian citizenship, and therefore does meet the eligibility requirements that are spelled out in exquisite detail in the United States Constitution.
Many years later, when Obama arrived here, he came from a different perspective. "Barack had been very inspired by the civil-rights movement," Jerry Kellman, the organizer who hired Obama, told me recently.
Even Obama didn't know when he first gave it a try back in 1985. "When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn't answer them directly," Obama wrote in his memoir, Dreams from My Father. "Instead, I'd pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan ...
A staple priority of organizers like Obama was the summer-jobs program. In the 1980s the jobs were administered by the Mayor's Office of Employment and Training, or MET, but the nearest MET office to Altgeld was a long way away - beyond 95th Street - and located in what some felt was enemy territory.
Kellman was white, as were others who worked for CCRC. "The people didn't open up to him like they would to somebody who was black and really understood what was going on in their lives," Yvonne Lloyd, one of the key "leaders" - that is, local residents who worked closely with Obama - told me.
But Kellman had to sell Obama to the leaders. "Jerry introduces Barack, and Barack is so young, it's like, 'Oh my God,'" Loretta Augustine-Herron remembered. Obama was obviously smart, and he wanted to be an organizer, but he was, in fact, quite young (24) and he didn't actually know much about the job.
1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. 2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
This criticism is based on an overly-literal interpretation of Barack Obamaâs 2007 speech in Selma, Alabama, which we covered in a separate article. Father Was A Goat Herder â LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
Senator Obama was on the campaign trail at the time and did not return to Washington for the vote. I Am Not Acting As President Yet â LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
Obama did help pass a major ethics reform bill as an Illinois State Senator , and 110th U.S. Congress passed the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act, which âclosely mirrored and drew key provisions from a bill (S. 230) that Senators Obama and Feingold introduced in January 2007.â.
My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. 5.)
Barack Obama attended more than one school in Indonesia, one of which was a public school that included Islamic religious instruction among its curriculum, and one of which was a private Catholic school. I Was Fluent In Indonesian â LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.