By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Orly Taitz

According to a posting on the U.S. Supreme Court website, Orly Taitz’ latest request for an opinion from the high court has been “referred to the Court.”

Taitz, who has spearheaded several of the prominent legal cases challenging Obama’s eligibility based on claims he does not qualify for the office under the U.S. Constitution, has brought before the court a penalty of $20,000 imposed by a federal judge on her for her actions in one of her cases.

Taitz confirmed to WND she has had donations of about $2,000 to defray the penalty, but she is arguing she should not be subjected to the penalty.

In two other cases in which penalties were threatened by federal judges on attorneys who brought eligibility challenges both courts backed off when the attorneys pointed out that being subjected to penalties gave them standing to request a hearing on the actual evidence in the case and the discovery of Obama’s birth documentation.

The penalty against Taitz stems from her presentation of the case of Army doctor Capt. Connie Rhodes.

Taitz told WND that in her request before the court she is asking for discovery and arguing the sanctions are not warranted.

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On her website, Taitz confirmed her case “will be heard by all 9 justices of the Supreme Court. Whether they will actually read a word, or it will be decided by the … clerks, remains to be seen.”

She previously has brought petitions to the Supreme Court, as have several other lawyers, seeking a ruling on the merits of the arguments that Obama is ineligible.

The court confirmed she had asked Justice Clarence Thomas to refer the case to the court for conference, a meeting of the justices to determine which cases they will hear, and he declined. She then referred it to Justice Samuel Alito, who forwarded it.

WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama’s status as a “natural born citizen.” The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama’s American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.

Other challenges have focused on Obama’s citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.

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