Birther appeal against Obama in New Jersey fails

by Graham Email

Mario Apuzzo fails in his latest lawsuit to have Barack Obama removed from the Democratic Party ballot in New Jersey. Apuzzo is now threatening to appeal the decision all the way to the US Supreme Court. He has already filed an appeal, but as is normal for many of these appeals, it starts out with spelling errors, including a howler in the title. Being based on a level of exactitude, the legal system tends to be intolerant of pleadings with poor spelling and command of language. It makes you look incompetent and careless, stupid, or some combination of the two.
Reading the appeal, it is rambling word salad apparently recycled from his original motions, it makes no cogent points as to why the ruling was incorrect. What Apuzzo is really saying, once you edit out the guff, is "you ruled against me and I don't like it, so here once again are all the reasons that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen". This is all irrelevant horseshit. The ruling from the ALJ is that Obama does not have to demonstrate eligibility to get on the Democratic primary ballot in New Jersey. Apuzzo's hand waving about natural born citizenship is therefore irrelevant. His sppeal is going to fail unless he can show where the ALJ erred in following New Jersey state law. "Your decision is wrong because he is not a natural born citizen" is not going to cut it, it fails to answer the question "where did the ALJ err?". This is Lawyering 101.
To use an analogy, what Apuzzo is doing is the equivalent of trying to win an appeal against the denial of a building permit by claiming that the Uniform Building Code is unconstitutional.
I also note that Apuzzo, in the second page of the appeal, persists in perpetuating the fiction that this was a trial. It was not, it was an Administrative Law Hearing. Birthers seem to do this all the time. They appear to have the recurrent wet dream of some sort of Big Trial where they present their overwhelming evidence, see the case decided in their favor, and then watch as the sheriff is dispatched to DC to bring The Usurper back in handcuffs for his comeuppance.