Texsox Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/...te_43705180.jpg US Supreme Court refuses to take up Obama citizenship case 22 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a case filed by a New Jersey voter who questioned whether president-elect Barack Obama was a "natural born" American, a prerequisite for running for the White House. In the case, plaintiff Leo Donofrio also alleged that Obama's rival for the presidency, Republican John McCain, was not an American citizen from birth because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. The Zone was controlled by the United States until 1979. The court did not give a reason for rejecting the case, which was the second such challenge the justices have refused to take up in recent weeks. In the earlier case, which the court threw out on the eve of the historic election in which Obama beat McCain to become the first African-American to be elected president of the United States, Pennsylvania lawyer Philip Berg alleged that Obama was born in Kenya, his father's homeland. According to a birth certificate for Obama made public by his campaign, the president-elect was born in Hawaii in August 1961, two years after the archipelago became a state. The US constitution provides the framework for the law on who is a citizen, saying in the 14th amendment: "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." Laws passed since the constitution are more specific about who is a citizen at birth. They include anyone born inside the United States, a person born in a US possession if one parent is a citizen and lived in the United States for at least a year; and anyone born outside the United States to at least one US-citizen parent who has lived in the US for a minimum of five years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ThunderBolt Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Playing advocate, this doesn’t mean he’s a citizen, it just means that no one wants to make him prove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 11:54 AM) Playing advocate, this doesn’t mean he’s a citizen, it just means that no one wants to make him prove it. He's proven it time and time again, and other courts have agreed. What it means is that SCOTUS specifically doesn't want to have to prove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Secretly sponsored by Joe Biden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 None of the tin foil haters will give up this line, though. There is a massive amount of evidence showing him to be a natural born US citizen, but it still isn't good enough for these internet document/ immigration/ naturalization/ Supreme Court 'experts'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesoxfan101 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 (edited) I thought the argument people were making is he's not a naturalized citizen because he lived in Indoenesia or something. I mean, this is all obviously BS, but I thought the goofs had at least admitted he was actually born in Hawaii. Edited December 9, 2008 by whitesoxfan101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 02:48 PM) I thought the argument people were making is he's not a naturalized citizen because he lived in Indoenesia or something. I mean, this is all obviously BS, but I thought the goofs had at least admitted he was actually born in Hawaii. Admitting he was born in Hawaii would defeat their logic, because that would automatically make him a US citizen. There is more than one "theory" but the main one is that they're trying to say is that he was really born in Kenya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSox_Sonix Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 For the record, the only outstanding challenge in a court to his citizenship is from a man also protesting John McCain's citizenship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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