A case that challenges President-elect Barack Obama’s name on the 2008 election ballot citing questions over his citizenship has been scheduled for a “conference” at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Conferences are private meetings of the justices at which they review cases and decide which ones to accept for formal review. This case is set for a conference Dec. 5, just 10 days before the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to make formal the election of Obama as the nation’s next president.
Most likely, however the case goes, it’ll be a nailbiting 5-4 decision. The tiebreaker, of course, will be Anthony Kennedy and whether he’s having a bad-hair day.
Legs indeed, Lord please let this be. If they do rule against the new election could be Sarah v Hillary.
Interesting, I just commented in another thread
that a lot of these other suits may be asking for the wrong thing... Keyes trying to disqualify CA electors, Berg trying to stay the election, etc.
I read this right? In this one, Obama’s name on national ballot is the actual challenge?
My guess is that the justices already know what needs to be done, and they are going to pick and choose which case they review to either get it done right, or to sweep it under the rug in the most discrete manner.
Even if the case is not heard, what will come out of this is a process for determining qualification before inauguration.
The cynical part of me says that SCOTUS will never do anything with this and risk the collective wrath of the “informed” Obama voters who no doubt will burn their building down.
Did SCOTUS actually demand Obama produce his BC by Dec 1, or did they just require that he respond to the suit?
wow
Since the case is for an emergency stay, and pertains to a national election, they will accept the case and review it. Their decision will be given prior to vote by Electoral College.
I have a template letter on this topic and addresses to contact the SCOTUS justices and clerks. Please private mail me if you’re interested.
I want justice to prevail - no matter the outcome.
It is in the best interest of this country for the case to be heard by the Supremes, regardless of whether he is, or is not, eligible.
If he is, then that puts paid to all of the other suits, and we can all move along to obfuscating his nefarious plans for the next 4 years, while seeking a suitable contender for the White House in 2012.
If he isn’t, then the Constitution of the United States, which is the supreme law of this land, needs to be upheld and obeyed. If his (vastly reduced in number at that point - Americans don’t like to be had!) supporters take to the streets, then so be it. They will fight, they will be subdued in due course, and America will survive and move on.
The upshot of it is, no party will dare to nominate another candidate who has not been thoroughly vetted, no matter how good of a game he talks, plus the media will be exposed again for the sham that it has become.
It’s a no win situation for the case not to be heard, and a no lose for it to be heard.
I just don’t get why this hasn’t been resolved LONG ago...it doesn’t make sense that the Dems would let this rise to the level of the Supreme Court? Crazy....
I have listened to Leo Donofrio from NJ for the last two nights on Prarie Radio and Lam Lamphere. If they made a movie about this (Hollywood would never touch it) it would be incredible. It is the most amazing story no one knows about. Little people stepped in as Leo was getting jerked around by a corrupt clerk at SCOTUS screwing with his filing.
Leo is a super guy and a real patriot.
Go to his web site at www.blogspot.org/naturalborncitizen?
You can learn what is going on. Everyone should lay off the stupid vanity posts, grandpa’s corn fritters, Rush talking about the Steelers, prayer threads for Obama and other nonsense. Our freedom hangs by a thread. We have had a coup. The financial markets have been manipulated for profit by shorts using bear raids and to gain control of the country.
Our conservative talk show “heroes” are AWOL chickens. Thank God for the Internet radio people like Prarie Radio, Lan and Free Republic when it is not used for inanities like granny’s pumpkin pie receipe or snide comments by negative people.
Leo and his case may be the only thing standing in the way of tyranny by two political parties owned by ?? and a MSM owned by other people who care little about America.
Leo’s case does NOT need a birth certificate but it is backup in his case in case his first or second claim fails. leo built layers in his case.
Leo has it nailed based on The Constitution. It is obvious and there is no ambiguity. Justice Thomas would not have moved it along unless Leo’s case was solid. I feel they will have a hard time turning this away. The Framers entrusted SCOTUS as almost the last defense against tyranny and their shield and sword is the Constitution. Leo’s case lays it all out. It truly is amazing. A David and Golith story.
Let's see how the US government lines up against these foundational laws:
1) The legislative branch creates laws.
2) The executive branch implements the laws. There are provisions for some leeway during times of war, via the War Powers Act. This requires a declaration of war, not in effect.
3) The judicial branch judges cases using the law. Judges were _never_ authorized to create law _out_of_thin_air_ any more than to ignore lawful laws in their decisions. The key principle in the previous statement is that a case brought before the courts, for which there is no covering law, must be ruled simply NO jurisdiction and dropped, duh.
Now, SCOTUS would surely be aware of the US Constitution and it's _very_ lawful law pertaining to the citizenship requirements for a president. They are legal bound to uphold the law, not worry about the ramifications, ie., the nut left riots which may ensue.
Good day.
I think this story is really going somewhere. I also think that the API is a great source of news and that my new African email buddy is going to send me $20 million as soon as I mail him $5k for shipping.
Please fax a letter to each of the Justices at 202-479-2971.
This is what I sent them. We should not directly attack ANY candidate, only express our desire the constitution is upheld.
Don’t copy what I wrote. Make your letter unique, it will have more effect.
My letter:
I am not a legal scholar. I do not claim to understand all that our forefathers wrote in the most fundamental document of our great country, our Constitution. I am a concerned average citizen who believes that our Constitution is the very foundation our country was built upon and needs to be upheld, for us a nation to continue. I am calling upon you to uphold our Constitution.
In the last several months there have been many questions raised regarding the Presidency and our Constitution. I believe it to be of the utmost importance that the Justices address this issue with haste, not only for our generation, but for generations to come. I, as a U.S. citizen may not have standing to challenge a candidate’s qualifications for President, but you do. (I’m not quite sure why that is, because I believe myself to be an injured party if a President is sworn into office and does not qualify for that office based upon our Constitution, but based on previous court rulings it would appear that I have no standing.)
I am hoping that you, as a Justice of the highest court in this land, will hear any and all arguments brought before you to settle this matter once and for all. We can not count on any of the political parties to address this issue, they have bias. I am not willing to “just take their word for it”. I am calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to finally put this matter to rest. We as citizens need to know that the President we elect does indeed “qualify” for the job, constitutionally. I urge you to go one step further and prevent this from ever happening again by clarifying what is required by law to run for office of the President, and who is responsible for upholding that requirement.
This may very well be the most important decision you as a Justice will ever make. Your ruling, or lack thereof, will forever impact our Presidential election process. I urge you to take this matter under advisement and give us a final ruling that clarifies this issue; we should not be faced with this predicament again.
I, as an American citizen am counting on you, Your Honor, to uphold our Constitution at all costs. If we start picking and choosing what parts of the Constitution should be upheld, what will be next, freedom of speech? The future of our great nation is at stake, and I as a citizen am counting on you to follow what our forefathers penned in the Constitution.
Respectfully,
How to address your letters:
Each Justice’s name & the mailing address for SCOTUS.
Address your letters to: (Make sure you write a letter to each Justice)
Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Justice Steven Breyer
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice Anthony Kennedy
Justice Antonin Scalia
Justice David Souter
Justice John Paul Stevens
Justice Clarence Thomas
United States Supreme Court
One First Street N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20543
Is it not Orwellian that the MSM, the internet browser pages and the print media are abuzz with the earth-shattering news that Dick Cheney was indicted by some clown in some remote locality and yet, 15+ cases challenging the Constitutional eligibility of the “president-elect,” including two applications for cert that are currently pending at the United States Supreme Court go completely ignored by the media?? The various programming at Fox News etc. is filled with court updates on every last piece of trash tabloid crap. And yet, no one takes thirty seconds to mention that cases have been filed in numerous jurisdictions and federal courts on the “natural born citizen” issue. It’s profoundly depressing.