The extreme extremists on the right are shut down again. You'd think they would put
their efforts into something more meaningful, something that actually betters society. They could pick an issue that matters and do some good. They're wasting the time of the Supreme Court and others. Sadly, this will not be the end of their opposition to Obama as they await
Armageddon.Chicago Trib: UPDATE: 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.
NYT gives a
historical rundown and sums it up pretty well: This is the kind of doubt-bending thing that lives independently online, but from the looks of today’s decision by the highest court in the land, the accusation isn’t gaining much ground in the realm of reality.
From MSNBC:
