Despite Today’s Silence On Obama Birth Certificate: “It’s Safe To Say It’s Unlikely The Supreme Court Won’t Hear The Case” - Full List Due Monday

Despite Today’s Silence On Obama Birth Certificate: “It’s Safe To Say It’s Unlikely The Supreme Court Won’t Hear The Case” -

Full List Due Monday

December 5th, 2008 Posted By drillanwr.

Theresa Cao speaks about President-elect Barack Obama’s proof of U.S. citizenship outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday Dec. 5, 2008. Previous here and here. by Frank James - (Swamp) No announcement today from the Supreme Court about whether it will hear what I call the Obama-isn’t-a-natural-born-citizen-so-he-can’t-be-president lawsuit, officially known as Donofrio v. Wells. As I wrote yesterday, Justice Clarence Thomas had the case listed for the justices’ Friday conference where the court’s members, among other orders of business, decided what cases to hear arguments on. Donofrio wasn’t announced as one of the two cases the court decided to take. Scotusblog has details on the cases. I’m told by a Supreme Court watcher that the lack of an announcement doesn’t mean the court definitely won’t hear Donofrio although he thinks it’s safe to say its unlikely the court won’t hear the case. The full orders aren’t due until Monday. So we’ll just have to stay tuned.

Pat Dollard

Nine Justices, Four needed, One conference excerpt: UPDATE, 5:45pm: Several people are saying that, because Donofrio's case was not among the release showing two cases for which certiorari were granted, his stay-as-petition-for-cert was denied. Even the law blog at The Wall Street Journal is reporting as such. As much as I think it very probably was in fact denied, nothing I have seen so far--including the order list distributed today--suggests 100 percent that cert was either denied or granted. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I cannot find anything that conclusively points toward denial. I'm guessing that, absent evidence to the contrary, people are simply taking sides according to the odds. Absent another miscellaneous order showing that the Justices granted Donofrio's petition, not likely to come at this hour, we'll just have to wait until Monday or Tuesday for the full list of orders. Monday, remember, is the press conference at the National Press Club. I may try to go, should I be able to shuffle some work around and decide to petition the Court for a stay with regard to studying for exams. We'll see. Furthermore, I just saw Wolf Blitzer on CNN do a three-minute segment on Donofrio's case. Of course, it was painted as you would expect it to be but, at this point, any focus on the constitutional aspects of this issue is good. The only thing, however, is that really I wish that the underlying motivation behind these legal actions would not necessarily be depicted as so much anti-Obama as pro-Constitution. I may be a conservative, I may firmly believe that Obama was certainly not the best choice for this country, but I would absolutely, positively be equally up in arms if it were a different politician, even a conservative.

http://www.americasright.com/2008/12/nine-justices-four-needed-one.html

In the meantime.....the lawsuits keep getting filed:

Friday, Dec. 05, 2008

Group seeks to have state's votes for Obama set aside

By Michelle Dupler, Herald staff writer

A group of Washington residents have filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court asking the state's votes for President-elect Barack Obama be set aside.

James E. Broe of King County and 12 others claim Obama never established that he is a natural-born American citizen as required by the Constitution, and that Obama ran under a false name.

A similar suit before the election was dismissed in King County.

Obama is set to receive the state's 11 electoral votes when the Electoral College delegates meet in Olympia on Dec. 15.

Dave Ammons, spokesman for Secretary of State Sam Reed's office, said in an e-mail to the Herald that the state's position is that Reed is not required and does not have the authority to investigate the qualifications of candidates for president and vice president.

"Under state law, the Republican and Democratic tickets are automatically placed on the fall ballot after the national party conventions," Ammons said. "Other tickets can qualify by having 1,000 registered Washington voters sign petitions at conventions. The state Elections Division examines the signatures, but does not investigate the qualifications of the candidates."

The lawsuit claims that Reed has known about questions concerning Obama's eligibility since September, but did nothing to determine whether Obama was a lawful candidate.

The claims rest on Obama's alleged failure to provide a certificate of live birth from his home state of Hawaii. Court documents say Obama instead has published a document called a Certification of Live Birth, which the suit claims does not prove Obama was born on American soil.

The suit also claims Obama was adopted by a stepfather in Indonesia and took the legal name Barry Soetoro, and that Barack Hussein Obama was not his legal name when he filed as a candidate in Washington. The claims are based on school records published on the TV show Inside Edition, according to court documents.

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