Berg is challenging specific ruling of Surrick that Berg has no standing to bring suit.

Obama can oppose challenge of lower court ruling by Dec 1 2008 or not as he see's fit, as can any citizen. Disussion remains as to wether Berg has status and has nothing to do with Obama's birth certificate or any other facts not pertaining to Berg's standing to file circuit court suit.

After all filings court will consider merits of having a hearing, or making a decision. SCOTUS never HAS to make a ruling. Only if they CHOOSE to do so.

MAYBE 40-60 days from now SCOTUS will rule BERG has status and lower court procedings will continue. SCOTUS will not rule on Obama's citizenship. It can ignore lower court ruling and refuse to hear challenge or hear challenge then rule Berg has standing or Berg dosnt have standing.

When and if lower court precedes and rules on Citizen ship, this ruling can be appealed to SCOTUS as well.

Bloggers appear to be totally mis-informed on this subject.

Please go back and look at the “so called Birth Certificate” shown on the Web Site. The birth certificate does not have a certificate number that is traceable – why is it blanked out? Further more, I would believe a hospital birth certificate (with a thumb print and/ or foot print) before I would believe a state issued birth certificate. What really is a thorn in the side here is, that the questionable birth certificate issue should have been presented to the American Public through the news media that is to be giving the public truthful news (not news of the news media’s choice) a long time ago and the voting public decide if he was eligible to run or not.

John McCain (Juan McCain) does not have a valid birth certificate either, but the Congress decided to let it go and let him run any ways, that issue was for the American Public to decide not them.

I truly hope the judges at the Supreme Court understand that when and if Obama produces a birth certificate that it needs to be shown to the American Public; and that it shall be verified/ validated beyond a reasonable doubt that it is in fact an authentic birth certificate of Barack Hussein Obama II. This must be determined by a jury of American Public Constitutional obeying peers.

First, the “voting public” cannot decide if someone is eligible to run. Eligibility is determined by the Constitution – not voters. This issue has been known for months so I don’t know why you think it should have been “presented to the American Public through the news media”. How else did everyone, except you, learn about it?

Second, John McCain did produce his birth certificate. As in the first point, only the Constitution determines the eligibility of someone running for President, not the voting public and certainly not Congress. Someone born to US military personnel outside the boundaries of the US is a US citizen. There is not and has not ever been any problem with McCain’s citizenship status.

If he was born in Kenya of a US mother, he is, by birth, a US citizen since in all but a few very special cases US citizenship is transferred by a US citizen parent, either the father or the mother, to a child born outside of the US. (The “esceptions” have to do with the age of the US citizen parent and the length of time that parent actually lived in the US prior to attaining a certain age.) The question which the SCOUS would have to decide as to whether or not being born abroad qualifies the person as a natural-born US citizen because the US Constitution does not define the meaning of Natural Born. In all other cases a US citizen is either a citizen by birth or a citizen by naturalization. Some would define Natural Born as vigina-born as opposed to Cesarean born. Others would define it as the result of normal conception as opposed to being born of a Virgin (Biblical definition). This definition has never been determined – either by the constitution or by the Supreme Court.