Court Tosses 'Natural Born' Obama Case

No comment on NJ man's claim about citizenship
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Dec 8, 2008 10:02 AM CST
Court Tosses 'Natural Born' Obama Case
The Supreme Court has tossed a case questioning Obama's presidential eligibility.   (AP Photo/Alex Wong)

The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. Leo Donofrio says that since the president-elect had dual nationality at birth—his mother was American and his Kenyan father was a British subject at the time—he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen" as constitutionally required.

Donofrio also contends that John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero aren’t natural-born citizens. At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains on the high court's docket. A Pennsylvania man argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed that lawsuit. (More President Obama stories.)

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