Now, after a few deep breaths....
Supremes to review Barack's citizenship
By
Bob Unruh
A case that challenges President-elect Barack Obama's name on the 2008 election ballot citing questions over his citizenship has been scheduled for a "conference" at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Conferences are private meetings of the justices at which they review cases and decide which ones to accept for formal review. This case is set for a conference Dec. 5, just 10 days before the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to make formal the election of Obama as the nation's next president.
The Supreme Court's website listed the date for the case brought by Leo C. Donofrio against Nina Wells, the secretary of state in New Jersey, over not only Obama's name on the 2008 election ballot but those of two others, Sen. John McCain and Roger Calero.
If four of the nine justices vote to hear the case in full, oral argument may be scheduled.
The action questions whether any of the three candidates is qualified under the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural-born citizen."
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What this may result in, is a Supreme Court ruling handing this case back to the lower courts, and ordering them to hear the evidence, the citizen's lack of standing to bring suit notwithstanding.
Finally, there is a venue where a citizen does have standing to bring such a suit, and that is before State Supreme Courts. Here they can bring suit forcing the State's registrar of voters to withold submitting their electoral votes to the Federal Govt, until a candidate can show proof they are eligible for the office.
Barack Obama is not yet the President-elect. This does not occur until the Electoral College meets, collects and counts all the delegate's votes from the states. This does not occur until Dec. 15th.
Such suits are ongoing in California, Ohio, Connecticut, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Hawaii.