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Title: Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve
Source:
AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_obama
Published: Dec 8, 2008
Author: AP
Post Date: 2008-12-08 10:47:25 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Obama, Supreme Court, Dead Constitution
Views: 1211
Comments: 9
Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues Play Video AP – Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues * Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues Play Video Video: Lawsuit contesting Obama citizenship continues AP President-elect Barack Obama listens to a reporter's question during a news AP – President-elect Barack Obama listens to a reporter's question during a news conference in Chicago, Sunday, … WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president. Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president. At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081..._on_go_su_co/scotus_obama ">Click for Full Text!
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