If a retired Army officer wants to continue suing the state because Barack Obama was on the 2012 presidential ballot, he's going to have to pay court fees on his own, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today.
William Reade, a retired lieutenant colonel who lives on the Cape, has been seeking a waiver of his court fees under a state law that lets judges waive costs for people who fall below certain income and asset levels.
Reade argues he is officially indigent because he receives federal payments for being disabled and a state property-tax for being a disabled veteran.
But the state's highest court noted that neither of those are related to a person's ability to pay court fees. And after looking at statements of his total income and assets, the justices agreed with lower-court judges, who decided three times that Reade makes more than enough money to pay those fees.
Reade claims Obama is not a US citizen and so shouldn't have been on the ballot. And he claims that by refusing to even investigate his complaint, Secretary of State William Galvin violated his rights and that then Attorney General Martha Coakley compounded the violations by not investigating why Galvin refused to investigate his claim.
He filed suit in state court in 2013 after a federal judge tossed his similar lawsuit, saying neither federal nor state law required Galvin to investigate his claim and that he had no standing to sue in the first place.
The federal judge did agree to waive his court costs in that action - in the same ruling in which he dismissed his suit.
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Comments
Add the SJC to the conspiracy
By Michael
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 12:35pm
All of the evidence that "Obama" was born in America...hell, on Earth...is planted. The real truth can be found by cross-indexing the UPC code on packages of pork rinds with the 1949 stock market graphs and by alternating every seventh word in both Revelation and the screenplay for "Bridge on the River Kwai". It's all right freaking there for anyone bold enough to look for it.
You forgot the part about
By roadman
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 12:41pm
the hidden messages that only become clear when you play every Kate Smith anthem backwards and look at Carly Simon album covers in a parabolic mirror.
*slaps face*
By cybah
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 12:47pm
And he's clogging up the courts with this nonsense....
Yep.
By dmcboston
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 11:41pm
Well, guy's got the right to file his claims. Court is just saying he's got the obligation to pay filing fees.
Looks like Obama skates this time. Heh.
Actually, he doesn't have a right to file his claims
By itchy
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 11:47pm
The court already established that he lacked standing.
I suggest you google "lack of standing". You might learn something.
Well, there's federal court and then there's state court
By adamg
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 11:54pm
A federal judge ruled he had no standing. He only filed in state court after the federal judge told him "Good day, SIR." Maybe he's making some novel claim in his state action; I admit I don't know in large part because I don't care, since the SJC decision wasn't on the merits of that, but just on the issue of whether he's indigent, and I don't feel like driving to the Cape to look at his complaint (since lower-court filings are not online in this state).
And that's one of the problems
By roadman
Fri, 09/04/2015 - 2:04pm
with the current system. Federal Court shot me down, so I'll file my frivilous lawsuit with the state. And when the state shoots me down, I'll file an appeal to further my frivilous claims. And when my appeal is shot down, I'll file another appeal with a higher court.
All at the taxpayer's time and expense (minus the filing fee).
scoundrel obama
By Malcolm Tucker
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 12:49pm
Isn't it obvious?
By BostonDog
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 1:06pm
Obama, having now obtained the level of grand dictator, controls the courts like a puppet master. Obama made the SJC rule that way just like he planned 9/11 and Katrina.
We're too late! There's no way of stopping him now!
N0BAMA
By Malcolm Tucker
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 4:21pm
HE"S USIN HIS KENYAN VOODOO TO TAKE MAH GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope just a pen and phone.
By anon
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 8:46pm
Nope just a pen and phone.
Being a disabled veteran...
By lbb
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 1:56pm
...doesn't mean you're a worthwhile human being.
Un fucking believeable
By dmcboston
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 11:34pm
Fuck you.
"Being a disabled veteran...
By lbb on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 1:56pm
...doesn't mean you're a worthwhile human being."
""William Reade, a retired lieutenant colonel who lives on the Cape, has been seeking a waiver of his court fees under a state law that lets judges waive costs for people who fall below certain income and asset levels."
He's looking for his court costs on an indigent thing, not his DAV status, if I read it correctly.
Being a DAV, by definition, in my opinion, makes you a worthwhile human being.
Asshole.
Why do you feel the need for
By anon
Fri, 09/04/2015 - 7:26am
Why do you feel the need for the "fuck you" and "asshole" stuff DMC? You did the same thing to me on another post on a different subject. Get some professional help.
This spawn of Fox/WMD/Newsmax deserves respect for being a DAV, but deserves no respect for his repeated idiotic lawsuits.
I think reasonable people can agree that while this
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 09/04/2015 - 11:27am
guy's service to his country is honorable, being a birther makes him an idiot and a nuisance-lawsuit-bringing asshole who happens to have served his country with honor.
Let's not conflate the two issues. If you're still ranting about the President's birth certificate in 2015, you're either a disingenuous political hack who exploits the paranoia and ignorance of right-wing nutcases, or you're a right-wing nutcase. Reade is clearly the latter.
Lest we forget, the leading contender for the GOP Presidential
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 3:41pm
nomination is a birther effwit, too. Being a wealthy real-estate mogul / TV huckster doesn't mean you can't be an utter asshole with a tenuous connection to reality, too.