Supreme Court mum on Obama-birth case (until Monday)

[Newsjock]

Source: Chicago Tribune

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.

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[tomhayes]

1. Let's hope they impeach Thomas

Thomas, Alito and Roberts need to be impeahced for lying to the senate about how they didn't already decide certain cases (like abortion) before they were appointed.

[hlthe2b]

2. "safe to say its unlikely the court won't hear the case. "

Ahh, the competing double negatives.... I just love it people tie themselves up in knots and end up contradicting themselves...

I am assuming they meant to say, that "he thinks it is safe to say it is likely that the court won't hear the case" or alternately "safe to say it is unlikely the court WILL hear the case"....

[Robb]

3. Paid by the word, perhaps.

It would also explain the "nothing happened yet" story being filed at all.

[rateyes]

5. Kind of like Bush saying he wants to "unthaw" the credit market.

What a maroon.

[pnwmom]

4. With all those double negatives, I'm confused, but this sounds like bad news.

"the lack of an announcement doesn't mean the court definitely won't hear Donofrio"

-- so, the Court might hear Donofrio?

" although he thinks it's safe to say its unlikely the court won't hear the case. "

ALTHOUGH -- it is likely the Court will hear the case?

[fasttense]

6. That is some really bad writing.

An 8th grader could see that double negative a mile away.

[cali]

7. What fucking idiot wrote this piece of trash?