It’s Official: Supreme Court Denies First Obama Citizenship Appeal
By Doug Mataconis | Related entries in BarackAs part’s of it’s orders entered today, the Supreme Court has denied the first of the cases to reach it alleging that Barack Obama is ineligible to serve as President:
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
This isn’t the end of this nonsense, but it’s the beginning of the end, at least for the sane and rational among us.
The order itself can be found here.
Update: As Ballot Access News notes, the Supremes also denied relief in another case contesting Obama’s eligibility; Domantay v United States, 08A348.
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December 8th, 2008 at 11:19 am
These people are complete lunatics. But I really think this is going to backfire in a major way. It’s going to paint all Anti-Obama people as tinfoil hat lunatics.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Good for the justices! We can finally put the rest of this potential Dred Scott case once and for all!
December 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
If a common person has to produce a birth certificate to get a drivers license or vote in an election among many other things in life that government demands of us, what makes a politician so special that they don’t have to comply with birth certificate regulations themselves- when they are suppose to comply also, but refuse? It is only fair that citizens have a right to know who they are voting for if the birth place of the politician comes into question- true? Its very reasonable to ask to see Obama’s birth certificate if his own african family continues to publicly claim that he was born in mombasa kenya. Nothing wrong with the electorate for asking for evidence of another person’s bonafides in an election, considering the election officials haven’t ever done their job. Your constitutional rights just went out the window, because he is mocking your right to know who he is.
December 8th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
john,
Obama DID release his birth certificate, which the state of Hawaii has subsequently certified as legit. No if’s, and’s or but’s about it, my friend.
At this point, anyone who questions it further, saying “well, that still doesn’t PROVE he’s a citizen” needs to start looking at their own birth certificate, and try to figure out what that proves about themselves.
Can you prove that your’s is legit? Have you had a “Questioned Documents” specialist certify it? No? Wow…I think you may be a terrorist. Better go call homeland security on yourself. Really, go call them now. And, file a lawsuit, and take it all the way to the SCOTUS.
That’s _exactly_ what these fools have been doing.
December 8th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Its orders, not it’s orders
December 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am
When the constitution specifically says that only natural born citizens may
qualify for the presidency, it explicitly means that there cannot be any
encumbrances or circumstances, or qualifications AT THE TIME OF BIRTH.
This brings up the universally accepted dogma that American born citizens
may confer US citizenship to their children born in Japan, Germany, or any
other foreign soil. All such children are US citizens. The converse is also
true (unfortunately for Barack Obama). Any German parents born in
Germany automatically will confer German citizenships to their children
born on US soil. This rule has never been questioned. Barack Obama’s
father, at the time of Barack’s birth on US soil conferred UK citizenship
automatically.
This is why no president (until now) has ever had one parent
who was born in a foreign country – except for several original
men living at the time the constitution was written up.
The natural born qualification is (in BHO’s case) is encumbered by the
circumstance of blood relation to a foreign born parent at the time of
his birth. You may not wait until you are 18 years of age in order to
circumvent the conditions which existed at the time of your birth.
Remember, BHO is proud of his heritage and he has stated that he
had a British citizenship at the time of his birth. Understandably,
the tight interpretation honestly can be relaxed. No one questions that.
However, no hospital in Hawaii is saying that they have any records
for BHO or Stanley Ann Durham. The Kenya hospital does say that
they have records which are now sealed. The grandmother of BHO
on his father’s side claims it was a very memorable occasion when
BHO was born to a young white woman in Mombassa. She claims
she was in the delivery room when he was born.
Yes, the constitution may be amended, but must we do so
just because we have the first African American POTUS ?
December 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Conwebblog has an article about how WMD is making a profit from this stuff. Charging people to send letters to the Supreme Court.
Also, I don’t think that Domantay has anything to do with Obama? But… I’m not sure.
December 31st, 2008 at 9:05 am
I have a correction for Mr. Joe, the 14th amendment to the constitution clearly establish that the only requirement for citizenship is that someone must be born in the territory of the USA. Here is is:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
As you can see, there are no other requirements or limits, there is nothing at all regarding the citizenship of any parent. Case closed, move on