Texas judge rejects lawsuit questioning President Obama’s citizenship
By AMAN
BATHEJAabatheja@star-telegram.com
A district judge threw out a case Thursday filed by a Round Rock women alleging that President Barack Obama has not proven he is a natural born citizen, one of several such cases filed around the country in recent months.
Jody Brockhausen, who runs the Web site, obamaverifybirthplace.com, wrote in her lawsuit that the Texas Secretary of State’s Office should decertify Obama’s name from the state’s 2008 election ballot unless it receives documents proving that Obama was born in Hawaii.
A Williamson County district judge dismissed the case arguing that Brockhausen did not have standing.
Brockhausen alleged in her lawsuit that Obama may be unqualified to be president because it is unclear if he meets the Constitution’s citizenship requirements.
Conservative activists raised questions about the circumstances of Obama’s birth last year and filed lawsuits in several states. The Supreme Court has declined at least eight appeals asserting that Obama is ineligible to be president due to doubts about his birth.
Obama’s campaign released his birth certificate in June. It showed that he was born in a Honolulu hospital at 7:42 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961. Hawaii officials have said the birth certificate is authentic.
A call to Brockhausen was not returned Thursday.
Ed Hale, a conservative activist and rancher from the Texas Panhandle town of Wellington, has continually questioned Obama’s eligibility, first on his Web site devoted to Hillary Clinton supporters backing John McCain, and more recently on his online radio Web site, plainsradio.com. Hale said he and other activists have spent thousands of dollars helping fund lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility around the country. Even if every suit is dismissed, they will never accept Obama as president, he said.
"He’s not a bad man," Hale said. "He’s just not a natural-born citizen. He does not qualify according to what the Constitution says."
AMAN BATHEJA, 817-685-3932