December 8, 2008

Its Official: SCOTUS Shuts Down Last Potentially Viable Argument Against Obama's Eligibility to Stand for the Presidency

At 10:00 am this morning the Supreme Court of the United States issued the remainder of its orders from Friday's private conference. See the actual list of orders is here. With regard to the Donofrio request for an emergency stay, the Court had the following:

08A407 DONOFRIO, LEO C. V. WELLS, NJ SEC. OF STATE
The application for stay addressed to Justice Thomas and referred to the Court
is denied.

As the case was rejected by Justice David Souter earlier in November, and now has been denied after referral by Justice Thomas and a private conference of all nine Justices, this specific argument against Obama's eligibility to stand for the Presidency on the grounds that he is not a "natural born citizen", within the meaning of the Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution , is now effectively DOA.