Tomorrow the Supreme Court will conference on whether to hear the Obama citizenship lawsuit. It’s anybody’s guess what they will decide. I wouldn’t even try to guess, but the odds are against it.
Many petitioners seeking stays of pending events have their cases distributed to the full court, he said. Of those, Volokh found that 782 were denied in the last eight years while just 60 were heard — and not all of those ultimately were successful. Read full article.
There’s another interesting turn of events. A second lawsuit was sent to the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rejected it, so it was re-submitted to Justice Scalia. It was filed as an emergency stay and the petitioner was hoping it would be joined with the first lawsuit sent to the Supreme Court. Inexplicably, a law clerk intercepted the paperwork and referred it for anthrax testing. Read full story at Radio Patriot.
I still don’t understand why Barack Obama doesn’t simply produce a his birth certificate and end all of this.
Update: According to the SCOTUS website, once a case is conferenced the disposition will be published the following Monday at 10:00 AM. So, my understanding is that we won’t know anything until Monday.
Update 12/8/08: The case brought by Leo Donofrio has been denied by the Supreme Court.
