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Court Rejects Obama Ineligibility Appeal
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 08, 2008 09:46am |
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| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Monday, December 8, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be U.S. president because he was a British subject at birth.
The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio 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 U.S. Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.
“This is the least surprising move by the Supreme Court in years," said CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen. "No serious legal scholar believed that the Justices would take the case and overturn the election.” |
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