On January 9, now that the electoral process is over, the Supreme Court has scheduled a conference to consider Berg's writ of certiori, at which time they will agree to hear his appeal of the lower court's decision that denied his injunction to stay the electoral process because Obama is not Constitutionally-qualified to serve as President, thus paving the way for them to also agree to hear Berg's injunction to stay the electoral process until Obama proves that he is qualified, when they meet again on January 16, because both fall directly under part (c) of its Rule 10:
"(c) a state court or a United States court of appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, or has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court."
The situation is clearly "an important question of federal law." And, although this will be the second time the Court has visited presidential elections, this will be the first time that SCOTUS will have been presented with a situation where a President-Elect may not be Constitutionally qualified to serve as President. Therefore, there are no "conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court."
I'm sure that the justices are rethinking what happened in 2000, and if this can happen once, it could happen again. There is no way that SCOTUS can see their decision as being anything but important, historic, and precedence-setting in interpretation of federal law and the Constitution itself. In other words, they will not pass on it.
The 2008 election has raised other, new constitutional questions which the Court feels obliged to answer, such as reaffirming the meaning of the natural-born clause, who has standing to challenge a candidate for President, and who has the responsibility for properly vetting a candidate, for starters.
If you are wondering whether at least four of the justices feel that the gravity of the issue warrants consideration by America's "Court of Last Resort" the answer is, "You bet your bippy it does."
When I was watching the Chief Editor Korir episode with the Michelle Obama tape saying that Obama was born in Kenya, I said “Good, glad to hear that” — but I also said — “I’ll wait to see how this pans out...”
And now I’m seeing that the good ole Chief Editor Korir showed us all “the door” and then slammed it shut... LOL..
And so, seeing how all this has been going thus far and seeing how Obama is trucking right along, on schedule, as any other President about to go into office — I’m going to see what happens on January 20th.
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But, let me guess — there will be *another lesson* here on January 20th — and I’m sure we’ll also learn something new at that time, too...
I’ll be looking forward to your next installment — shall we say on, perhaps, January 21st, if that’s not too soon... Don’t leave me out, for sure... LOL..