{"id":25351,"date":"2012-09-14T05:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T05:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25351"},"modified":"2012-09-14T05:39:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T05:39:29","slug":"lawsuit-challenging-obama%e2%80%99s-qualifications-is-tossed-out-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25351","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Challenging Obama\u2019s Qualifications Is Tossed Out In Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskapublic.org\/2012\/09\/12\/lawsuit-challenging-obama%E2%80%99s-qualifications-is-tossed-out-in-federal-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawsuit Challenging Obama\u2019s Qualifications Is Tossed Out In Federal Court<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskapublic.org\" target=\"_blank\">AlaskaPublic.org<\/a><br \/>\n2012-09-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Miller<\/strong>, KTOO &#8211; Juneau<\/p>\n<p>An Alaska-based federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> qualifications to appear as a candidate on the November general election ballot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gordon Warren Epperly of Juneau claims that Obama does not have the political right to hold federal office because he\u2019s of mixed race.<\/strong> Epperly filed an objection with the state Division of Elections in April and sued in state Superior Court in July&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The case was moved to U.S. District Court where Judge Timothy Burgess on August 24th dismissed the lawsuit \u2018with prejudice.\u2019 <strong>That means it can never be brought up again&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskapublic.org\/2012\/09\/12\/lawsuit-challenging-obama%E2%80%99s-qualifications-is-tossed-out-in-federal-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit Challenging Obama\u2019s Qualifications Is Tossed Out In Federal Court AlaskaPublic.org 2012-09-12 Matt Miller, KTOO &#8211; Juneau An Alaska-based federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama\u2019s qualifications to appear as a candidate on the November general election ballot. Gordon Warren Epperly of Juneau claims that Obama does not have the political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[5704,11849,11847,11848],"class_list":["post-25351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-alaska","tag-alaskapublic-org","tag-gordon-warren-epperly","tag-timothy-burgess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}