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I think that you are forgetting that presidential appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States must be approved with the advise and consent of the US Senate. There is a Constitutional check and balance on presidential power on appointments. If the president is ineligible, it is the Senate’s job to reject his illegal nominees. Both Sotomayor and Kagan were approved by the Senate.

I am not really forgetting anything thank you.

Like the requirement of "natural born" citizenship as a prerequisite to eligibility to occupy the office of President, action by a President to initiate a Supreme Court appointment is a precondition to the office.

Supposing the White House garbage collector dispatched a notice of Supreme Court appointment to the Senate and the Senate confirmed? Does the confirmed person become a Justice?

Sonya and Kagen simply weren't appointed to the Court. Like Obama, they don't hold the office. A party to a Supreme Court action would, by definition have standing to raise the issue.

I am not really forgetting anything thank you.

Like the requirement of “natural born” citizenship as a prerequisite to eligibility to occupy the office of President, action by a President to initiate a Supreme Court appointment is a precondition to the office.

Supposing the White House garbage collector dispatched a notice of Supreme Court appointment to the Senate and the Senate confirmed? Does the confirmed person become a Justice?

Sonya and Kagen simply weren’t appointed to the Court. Like Obama, they don’t hold the office. A party to a Supreme Court action would, by definition have standing to raise the issue.

Nothing you wrote above changes the fact that all Supreme Court appointments must be CONFIRMED by the US Senate.

Just because it is your personal opinion that the President isn’t the President and the two new Supreme Court justices aren’t really Supreme Court Justices doesn’t make it so.

Sotomayor has already ruled on cases that are now the law of the land.

Here’s a question for you, what official body is it that will rule or decide that a president is ineligible after a president’s electoral votes have been counted and certified and after he has been sworn in on Inauguration Day, and what official body is it that decides or rules on a nominated and confirmed Supreme Court Justice being ineligible after a Justice has taken the Oath of Office? Both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts.

The US Supreme Court PRIOR to the seating of Sotomayor and Kagan had eight different appeals reach them concerning Obama’s eligibility: Berg v Obama, Beverly v FEC, Craig v US, Donofrio v Wells, Herbert v Obama, Lightfoot v Bowen, Schneller v Cortes, and Wrotnowski v Bysiewicz. The Supreme Court rejected them all, refusing to grant a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in any of those challenges to the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency,