Why assume they were censored or threatened? Maybe they thought the issue was so ridiculous it would just make them look silly? Like they never report on the dozens of lawsuits filed in federal court every year (and there are-- citations on request) claiming that the 16th Amendment was never ratified and the income tax is unconstitutional? Or they never report on the truther lawsuits regarding 9/11? Or dozens of other crackpot theories that are brought before the federal courts?
And why would Clarence Thomas, who prides himself on valuing the Constitution, admit that they were “evading” a valid and pressing Constitutional issue? It doesn’t make sense.
You are missing the context there. Every year-- and this started long before Obama ever ran for President-- Congressman Jose Serrano asks Thomas if he (Serrano, born in Puerto Rico) is eligible to run for President. Every year, Thomas tells him that the issue has never come before SCOTUS. When Serrano asked him for the 10th or 12th time, Thomas said "you know we're evading that," and everyone laughed. It's their standard joke.
Why are the eligibility judges almost all doing things that are blatantly unethical during the time that they are presiding over these cases?
None of these judges has domne anything unethical. And if you go back to the very first time the Obama eligibility issue was raised on FR, I, and almost every other Freeper lawyer, predicted that every single eligibility lawsuit would be bounced on grounds of standing or justiciability. This is just obvious stuff to anyone who had a year of law school. That is why none of the serious conservative lawyers (people like the Thomas Moore Center, the American Center for Law and Justice, even Judicial Watch) wants anything to do with eligibility suits and they are being left to incompetent fringe lawyers like Orly Tatiz (who, before she began the eligibility suits, had never represented anyone in court except for defending herself against dental malpractice cases).
But regarding the Soros speculation, the pieces of the puzzle fit, and there are things that just don’t make sense without the Soros piece.
Even in conspiracy theories, Occam's razor still applies-- the simpler explanation is almost always more likely than the one that requires you to believe a dozen unproven assumptions. That Al Quaeda conspired to bring down the World Trade Center is more likely than that George Bush and the U.S Military conspired to start a war on Iraq. If George Soros wanted to install a puppet president, he could have corrupted Hillary Clinton, or found another Democratic stooge, rather than picking a foreign-born candidate that would require him to commit dozens of felonies any one of which might have led to his discovery and destruction. If Soros picked Obama to run, you can bet he vetted his NBC status.
The only unproven assumption is that Obama was born in Hawaii. That's it. The rest of the evidence shows he was born elsewhere or can't prove he was born in Hawaii. It starts with a jpg that unnecessarily had the certificate number redacted. Then it leads to a set of photos that had EXIF data scrubbed and a certificate number that can't be confirmed. The former director of the Dept. of Health released two public statements ... NEITHER of which says his COLB is legal or genuine. His own wife says Kenya is his home country. One of his political friends, Tammy Duckworth, was quoted in a story saying he was born in Indonesia. A high school newspaper story that contained comments from an interview with Obama's sister (from the same high school where she works) says he was born in a different hospital than the one he currently claims. In a 1995 interview, Obama says he wasn't named until his father left for Kenya (although it doesn't say if it was the first or second time). Two known long form birth certificates contain certificate numbers showing Obama's number is impossibly out of sequence. The state of Hawaii REFUSES to confirm who the factlack dot org certificate number belongs to, even though they have statutory authority to release the number and the name. A school record lists Obama under a different last name and as a citizen of Indonesia ... which is the only available record declaring ANY citizenship for Obama. Kenyan parliament members made two separate, unrelated statements declaring Obama was born in Kenya. The state of Hawaii changed its disclosure law to AVOID releasing information about Obama that can otherwise be legally released. Several stories claim different years for when Obama moved to Indonesia and when his mother married his stepfather/adoptive father. The governor of Hawaii makes a public comment that a news release was issued saying Obama was born in Kapiolani Hospital, but no such news release exists. The state department fails to provide all of Stanley Ann Dunham's passport records, making an unsupported claim that some of the records were destroyed. An interview with SAD's friend in Washington state puts SAD in Washington awkwardly soon after the baby was born with no apparent ability to care for the baby. School records and phone directory listings put SAD in Washington the entire time she was supposedly married to Obama's father. Obama's father is quoted extensively in a story about being involved in the Honolulu community, but fails to mention he has a local wife and child. The list goes on and on.
A piece of swiss cheese the size of Montana doesn't have this many holes. Applying Occam's Razor then, the simplest answer is that Obama cannot prove he was born in Hawaii and that he is hiding this information from the public, perhaps with help from others, wittingly and unwittingly.