To: utahagen
Yes only four of nine need to agree to hear the case.
SCOTUS is our last best hope for saving our republic.
16 posted on
11/26/2008 1:21:44 PM PST by
stockpirate
(Compassionate Conservatism = Republican Socialism.)
To: stockpirate
Berg tried to stop the election, which was not going to take place. The question now, will the Justices actually request Obama show his CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH?
Supreme Court Justice David Souters Clerk informed Philip J. Berg, the lawyer who brought the case against Obama, that his petition for an injunction to stay the November 4th election was denied, but the Clerk also required the defendants to respond to the Writ of Certiorari (which requires the concurrence of four Justices) by December 1. At that time, Mr. Obama must present to the Court an authentic birth certificate, after which Mr. Berg will respond.
If Obama fails to do that, it is sure to inspire the skepticism of the Justices, who are unaccustomed to being defied. They will have to decide what to do about a president-elect who refuses to prove his natural-born citizenship. I can see a unanimous Court (en banc) decertifying the election if Obama refuses to produce his birth certificate, says Raymond S. Kraft, an attorney and writer. They cannot do otherwise without abandoning all credibility as guardians of the Constitution. Even the most liberal justices, however loathe they may to do this, still consider themselves guardians of the Constitution. The Court is very jealous of its power - even over presidents, even over presidents-elect.
Most of all and in my ever so humble opinion, this should have never been an issue or taken this route. Seems the person running for president of the United States would know they had to be a natural born citizen and this was a given until the Democrats decided to implement a political "coup de etat". With Democrats around, there can never be any loopholes with anything.
18 posted on
11/26/2008 1:39:58 PM PST by
Paige
("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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