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Robert C. Laity v. Kamala D. Harris

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 20-7109 · judgment February 5, 2021


Certiorari denied · June 1, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

The U.S. Constitution requires that a President and Vice-President of the United States be a “Natural Born Citizen” of the United States pursuant to Article II, Sec.l, Clause 5 and the 12th Amendment. It is the right of the Sovereign to demand of any public official, whose bona-fides is in question, to prove that he or she is entitled by law to occupy the particular public office he or she now occupies. In the U.S. it is “We the People” who are sovereign. The Petitioner properly filed an “In­ formation in the form of Quo Warranto at Common Law” in the proper venue for such actions, the U.S. Dis­ trict Court for D.C., after then Attorney General of the United States William Barr declined to pursue the is­ sue. Subsequent permission was sought from Acting U.S. Attorney General Rosen after Barr resigned from office. The courts below have denied standing to the Pe­ titioner. The Petitioner filed legal briefs in which he provided sufficient grounds in order to establish stand­ ing to pursue this matter in the name of the United States. Petitioner asserts that Kamala Devi Harris is in office unconstitutionally by virtue of not being a “Natural Born Citizen” of the United States.

  1. Can a Constitutionally barred individual remain in office if he/she does not meet a constitutionally mandated criteria for be­ ing in said office?

  2. Does the fact that the U.S. Attorney Gen­ eral declined to pursue this matter in the name of the United States incontrovertibly preclude an interested third party

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert C. Laity

For respondent
Beth Susan Brinkmann
Center for Reproductive Rights

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Aug 02 2021
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jul 08 2021
    DISTRIBUTED.
  3. Jun 16 2021
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jun 01 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  5. May 28 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  6. May 11 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/27/2021.
  7. May 07 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Harris, Kamala to respond filed.
  8. Apr 16 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 28, 2021)