I am no lawyer, and ordinarily I can barely follow what Nina Totenberg is saying on NPR.   Or, Jeffery Toobin on the tube, for that matter. In fact, I just listen slack jawed when Jack McCoy argues case law,  on my favorite tv show Law & Order.  So, I don’t know what to make of this article by Jeff Shreiber at America’s Right.  Or these other reports from which I just give you a few block quotes for what it is worth.

Justice Clarence Thomas has placed a discussion of Barack Obama’s citizenship on the December 5th docket for conference, meaning a discussion of the merit of this particular case. 

Real Clear Politics refuses to allow Reader Articles concerning Barack Obama’s citizenship. My latest post reports a scheduled Supreme Court conference on this very issue. My post was removed from RCP today.  In fact, every post, by most bloggers, covering Barack Obama’s citizenship has been scrubbed from RCP.

Most of us think what the Supreme Court does is news worthy. Not the case at RCP. The question is: why does RCP not deem actions by the U.S. Supreme Court important for readers to know about? Maggie’s Notebook

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 case, unsuccessful at the state level, had been submitted to Justice David Souter, who rejected it. The case then was resubmitted to Justice Clarence Thomas. The next line on the court’s docket says: “DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 5, 2008.”        World Net Daily

For those of us who are not legal eagles or just simply not nerds, a witty backgrounder is at the delightful website Donklephant. The over one hundred reader comments there offer rather sharp analyses and and amazing range of ideas on this topic.

Now, if you are wondering why all this fuss three weeks after the decisive elections, and why hasn’t there been any talk before, check this article by Joan Swirsky in Tulsa Today:

 The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08 This has to be one of the most amazing news paper articles on this topic I have ever seen.  She castigates the ‘deafening silence’ in the mainstream media, both right and left, on this topic. A most strident rant from a most intense voice. But it does make for an absorbing reading.

As for me, the US Supreme Court and the Constitution are all that matter, truth will eventually prevail.