If this is accurate it looks as though he will be required to produce the birth certificate.
If The Supreme Court Decides...?
At this point, Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s 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.”
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200811072518/editorial/america-the-beautiful.html
I wonder if this is why we are seeing so many stories about him, as if he is already occupying the oval office.
Souter tells Obama to produce the vault copy by December 1, 2008.
Souter said no such thing.
Berg simply filed a petition for a writ of certiorari. All this means is that Berg is claiming that the decisions of the district court and the circuit court saying he lacked standing to bring his lawsuit in the first place was incorrect and is asking the Supreme Court to send it back to the lower court for review.
The plaintiffs will simply respond by giving their arguments as to why the Supreme Court should not grant the cert. No birth certificate is required. This has absolutely nothing to do with evidence. It only has to do with whether or not Berg has standing and whether the lower courts' decision was wrong.
The Supreme Court is only being asked to rule on Berg's standing. Nothing else. And Obama's birth certificate has absolutely nothing to do with Berg's standing.