SCOTUS won’t review Obama’s citizenship

This one is a hot potato, with passionate arguments being made on both sides regarding Obama’s citizenship. Personally, I don’t think it will amount to anything. I have some reservations about the authenticity of what I’ve seen so far, and I’m curious why the original certified birth certificate has yet to be produced (only a copy has been produced by Team Obama) but I think that the high court will sidestep the issue regardless of the truth. It’s time to put this one to bed.

Court won’t review Obama’s eligibility to serve
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.

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UPDATE: Pink Elephant Pundit makes a very diligent observation: “I’m sure Obama is thrilled that the focus is on this and not on his cabinet choices and policy proposals.”

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