Oh No! What will the FreepTurds do now?? Obama's "birth certificate" issue DEAD at Supreme Court

[No Passaran]

The Court granted certiorari in two cases — al-Marri v. Pucciarelli (08-368) and Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. (08-441)

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp /


I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY GOT WORKED UP OVER THIS. I'M GONNA MISS THEIR CRAZY POSTS AND HAVING A LAUGH EVERY MORNING AS I READ THEIR CONSPIRACY THEORIES


(ORDER LIST: 555 U.S.)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
CERTIORARI GRANTED

08-368 AL-MARRI, ALI V. PUCCIARELLI, JOHN
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.

08-441 GROSS, JACK V. FBL FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
The motion of National Employment Lawyers Association for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae is granted. The petition
for a writ of certiorari is granted.

[WeDidIt]

1. NOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been having too much fun with this!

They can't let it die now!

[ellacott]

2. Is it possible that another Justice can look at it?

They already went to 2 Justices. Can they keep going?

[onenote]

4. no. that was the whole point of having Thomas refer it to the court

If Thomas had simply denied the petition, the nutjob filing it could have gone to another justice and then to another and so on until he'd hit them all. And then he'd still have the opportunity to file his petition for ceriorari (what he has filed at this point is not his petition for certiorari, its an emergency petition for stay pending his filing of his certiorari petition). Sending the matter to the full conference gave it the option of treating the stay petition as if it was the certiorari petition itself and to deny it. So at this point, the nutjob is done, over and out. And to the extent that other nutjobs come forward with similar cases, the fact that cert was denied by the full court here means that future petitions can be essentially decided by the justice's law clerks, who take most petitions, divide them up, and make recommendations that are generally summarily followed by the court.

[ellacott]

7. Thank you very much

It's good to know that this case is finally dead.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. I guess I owe Thomas an apology.

[Thickasabrick]

47. No - he's still a flaming asshole for taking this up when one of the

other justices turned it down initially.

[stahbrett]

53. Not really - this was standard operating procedure, according to the SC experts

If someone is turned down by own justice but refiles again with another, it's apparently extremely commonplace for that second justice to just go ahead bring it up to the full court. That way the person doesn't keep going from one justice to the next 9 different times.

[onenote]

56. wrong.;he's a flaming asshole but not for how he handled this

He handled this exactly the way any other supreme court justice would have. If you're the second justice getting an emergency petition for relief, the standard practice is to refer it to the court so it can be disposed of once and for all.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I wonder how they will justify it. All the judges sold out to Obama, right?

[louis-t]

17. No, it's "in the tank" for Obama.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Oh, riiiiiiight. I had forgotten about that one.

[nxylas]

50. Yes, I wonder how they explain Thomas being in the tank for Obama

Is there anything that Clarence Thomas and Barack Obama have in common that the Freepers might conceivably have picked up on?

[BrklynLiberal]

51. Gender is the best I can come up with. That is it.

[jberryhill]

57. They are both married.

You're right. Something of a mystery here.

[camera obscura]

58. That's obvious...

... they both went to law school.

[Crunchy Frog]

22. It's a massive, massive, massive conspiracy.

[Vattel]

42. Wrong idiot!!!

I's a massive, massive, massive, massive conspiracy.

[bullwinkle428]

32. "ZOMG!! John Roberts iz secretley black!!1!"

[jberryhill]

43. The SC judges are afraid of riots and civil war

...as if.

[tridim]

5. My "wake up" radio station has been talking about it non-stop for a week

Before that they spent months and months talking about Recreate-68. Sucks to be them.

BTW, I only wake up to this RW crap because I have a long-term bad habit of falling asleep to Art Bell which is on the same station.

[Patiod]

23. Doesn't listening to Art Bell before you go to sleep

make you dream about alien abduction?

OT: I've figured out the reason most drawings of aliens look alike, and realized what's REALLY sitting on your chest when you wake up unable to breathe.


The typical alien head:


Now, here's the image I see sitting on MY chest staring at me when i wake up in the middle of the night:

[tridim]

29. That's pretty funny.

No idea why it works, but it actually makes me fall asleep much faster. I tried listening to jazz for a week and I ended up paying attention to the music instead of falling asleep.

[crispini]

6. Are there any reaction threads up yet?

I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from here.

[WeDidIt]

8. They're in denial already, waiting for Monday

The official denial list isn't released until Monday, so....

To: Aquinasfan
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/12... "; This deserves a thread.

Actually it doesnt! It does not mean that they have denied anything just because the case wasn't put on todays list. From what I've heard, they may not know until Monday. Heck, Berg hasn't even found out anything yet. He still hasn't had his case listed as denied and his was on December 1st.

396 posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 12:56:55 PM by jcsjcm (Upholding the Constitution til my last breath)
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[crispini]

9. The RW version of "truthers" -- this is never going away.

They're just going to keep up a low rumble of stupidity and it will become an article of faith that Obama is not actually a "natural born" citizen on certain odd corners of the web.

[Number23]

20. Exactly

it will become an article of faith that Obama is not actually a "natural born" citizen on certain odd corners of the web.

Anyone who thinks that a stupid old Supreme Court ruling has put an end to this foolishness is delusional. The Freeper Fools are already planning to "pledge to NOT help the economy" over this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143540/posts?...

[nxylas]

21. Heh, read that thread all the way through

"This matter is poetic justice for John McCain. His support of illegal immigration has indirectly resulted in an alien outlaw defeating him and becoming U.S. president. "

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Oh noes! Porta-potty shares crash on that news!

[WolverineDG]

10. There were a few "concerned" over here as well

crispy!

dg

[Jim Lane]

19. Multiple threads, including a "Live Thread" started this morning

The thread was started at 9:33 a.m. today. (I think that's EST.) As of now (3:30 p.m. EST), the thread has 595 contributions. Or, perhaps I should say, 595 posts, because some of them could be considered contributions only in the broadest sense of the word.

As IWantAnyDem reported in #8, some of the Freepers are in denial, hoping that the list of grants of cert that's been released isn't complete, and that Donofrio's case may yet be included. Their hopes can survive until the list of denials is posted, which will probably be on Monday.

Other Freepers are pinning their hopes on one of the other pending lawsuits, such as Alan Keyes's. Still others allude to the possibility of future lawsuits. For example, there's a suggestion that military officers sworn to uphold the Constitution might bring a suit to establish whether they have to obey orders that come from Obama as Commander in Chief.

Update: While I was typing, they broke 600.

[AspenRose]

30. Alan Keyes has a lawsuit too?

If they're not careful these folks may find themselves with "vexatious litigant" branded on their asses

[regnaD kciN]

33. Not to mention...

..."sore loser(man)."

[Chisox08]

49. Alan Keyes is still bitter about losing to Obama

WE stopped paying attention to him the day after he said he was running for Senator in Illinois

[janx]

11. There will be more conspiracy theories, don't worry.

And this particular one isn't going away. It'll become ensconced in Freeper legend like those theories they had about the Clintons.

The ignorance will not disappear.

[gauguin57]

12. Fear not, friends. If you think the issue is dead, you don't know the Freepers.

They'll be telling their great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren that Obama is not a citizen!!!

[No Passaran]

14. LOL I hope so

My grandchildren will need a good laugh too

[VaYallaDawg]

27. They'll be telling them he's not a human, for God's sake!!!

[scheming daemons]

15. The birth certificate thing will be the "Vince Foster was murdered" thing for Obama

Or the "Clinton Death List"

or whatever.



It won't end... but nobody with a brain will care, and Obama will continue to have a 75% approval rating.

[maxrandb]

24. Yeah

but last I checked, Jerry Falwell is still dead!

Who will make the Obama Chronicles?

Speaking of Jerry, I'd like to visit his grave to share a beer with him...post consumption, of course.

[Gregorian]

16. Sorry, no Scalia orgy.

That must have a good anagram.

Haha-

Rosily coronary gas.

[Swamp Rat]

25. HAHA!

[AspenRose]

26. Now maybe they'll SHUT THE HELL UP

[RoyGBiv]

37. It's good to have dreams.

[No Elephants]

28. I don't get it. How does granting certiorari put an end to the cases??

[prostock69]

31. I believe what this means is:

the Supreme Court picked 2 cases, out of the many they had to choose from, to review and the case regarding Obama's birth certificate was rejected as a case they wanted to review because it wasn't one of the two that was issued a writ of certiorari. By doing this, they are saying that the lower court's opinion stands.

A writ of certiorari currently means an order by a higher court directing a lower court to send the record in a given case for review.

I hope this is correct. If not, please advise.

[No Elephants]

35. No clue. According to SCOTUS blog, the two cases mentioned

in the OP seem to have nothing at all to do with Obama's birth certificate.

Today’s Orders | 12.5.08
Friday, December 5th, 2008 1:23 pm | Ben Winograd | Print This Post
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Today’s orders list is available here. The Court granted certiorari in two cases — al-Marri v. Pucciarelli (08-368) and Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. (08-441) — filings for which are available after the jump.


Docket: 08-368
Title: al-Marri v. Pucciarelli
Issue: Whether Congress, in passing the Authorization for Use of Military Force after September 11, authorized the indefinite military detention of a legal immigrant seized on domestic soil whom the government alleged to have conspired with al Qaeda to carry out attacks against the United States.

Opinion below (4th Circuit)
Petition for certiorari
Brief in opposition
Petitioner’s reply
Brief amici curiae of William N. Eskridge, Jr., Daniel A. Farber, and Eric Lane (in support of petitioner)
Brief amici curiae of Professors of Constitutional Law and of the Federal Courts (in support of petitioner)
Brief amici curiae of Former Federal Judges, et al. (in support of petitioner)
Brief amici curiae of The Constitution Project, et al. (in support of petitioner)
Brief amici curiae of Retired Military Officers (in support of petitioner)
__________________

Docket: 08-441
Title: Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc.
Issue: Whether a plaintiff must present direct evidence of discrimination in order to obtain a mixed-motive instruction in a non-Title VII discrimination case.

Opinion below (8th Circuit)
Petition for certiorari
Brief in opposition
Petitioner’s reply
Brief amicus curiae of National Employment Lawyers Association (in support of petitioner)

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/todays-orders-12508/#more-...

[librechik]

36. which means they WON'T do the other application for writ (Obama BC)

will not be considered by the court

[RoyGBiv]

38. In a nutshell ...

Using an analogy, it's like this:

There's this fiction writing contest. There's a deadline for submissions. You submit a story before the deadline. On a set date after this deadline, all submissions are reviewed, and those deemed worthy of further consideration are passed on as finalists. The review board announces the finalists.

If your story was not on that list of finalists, it means your story won't win.

[leftofthedial]

34. they should take it to a higher court...

Dick Cheney

or maybe Pat Robertson

[Cha]

39. Up there in their outer

stratesphere.

[proud2BlibKansan]

40. ROFLMAO

They are clutching their monkeys in freeperville this evening.

[Thickasabrick]

44. I took a peek over there - this will not be dead to them until Monday

[No Passaran]

45. Monday?

Try eight years. They'll never be satisfied

[Thickasabrick]

46. You're right - even if they each received a certified copy - they would

claim it was fake. It's going to be a long 8 years for them....ain't life grand!!

[jerryster]

48. Just perused freerepublic

Lot of nut jobs over there. They could all be in rubber rooms soon.

[PatGund]

52. It's not over....

We won't know for sure until Monday if Certiorari was denied in Donofrio's case. But even if it was denied, there's still at least two other cases on the SCOTUS docket.

Berg's lawsuit, which is the birth certificate and kenyan birth one. Souter's hearing that.

Wrotnowski's, which is a clone of Donofrio's (the "natural born" arguement) Denied by Ginsberg, reapplied to Scalia

There may be two more as well, but no info on that.

And at least 15 at the state levels....


It's SO not over.........*rolls eyes*

[Phx_Dem]

54. FreepTurdville is a sad place tonight.

[Jennicut]

55. As much as I hate good old Clarence Thomas he did the right thing

he essentially stopped the stupid thing from moving to justice to justice. Per Jeffrey Toobin on CNN, this is why Thomas did this. I can't believe he did something right but I still dislike him immensely. However, Scalia (get over it, about the 2000 election debacle) and Alito (holding grudges against Biden from the questions at his hearing) are worse.