A state appellate court in Sacramento tossed out a lawsuit claiming President Barack Obama is not eligible to occupy the White House because he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. The court ordered the plaintiffs to pay all court costs of the defendants.
The lawsuit was filed shortly after the 2008 general election. The leading plaintiff (of three) was Alan Keyes, a former member of President Ronald Reagan’s administration from Maryland, and the 2008 American Independent Party candidate for president.
Keyes is a member of the so-called “birthers” movement. In his complaint, he claimed there is persuasive evidence Obama was born in what is now Kenya, which was then (1961) the British East African Protectorate of Zanzibar. He further claimed that President Obama would have automatically been a British citizen, based on his father’s citizenship, and ineligible for office.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You can read the full court decision here, but I’ll give you the short of it. Basically the whole thing was laughable and frivolous. That’s really all there was to it. Oh, and just so we’re clear, President Obama is an American citizen, by birth.
So yeah Birthers, go ahead and keep filing suit. With any luck, you’ll all bankrupt yourselves! Oh, and speaking of Birthers, if you haven’t seen it already you ought to check out Midnight Politics’ Ryan Saylor’s awesome, hard hitting interview with Birther Queen Orly Taitz. (Ryan, by the way, is a rising star in Arkansas media and actually asks some hard questions-Taitz was so frustrated when confronted by facts she didn’t want to face that she actually hung up the phone!) Trust me, it’s worth listening to.
No eligibility case has been tried on the merits, yet. They get dismmissed on standing or political question.
Of course Obama is a “US citizen” as he was born under USA jurisdiction, on US soil, to a US citizen mother. But, his father was British.
(USA=USA+BRITISH = USA/BRITISH Citizen)
See Chester A. Arthur.
As a US citizen, he qualified for the Senate, no problem.
However the President must be a “Natural Born Citizen”, which is born on USA soil, to a USA mother and a USA father.
(USA+USA+USA= US Natural Born Citizen)
Correction
(USA+USA+BRITISH = USA/BRITISH Citizen)
Wait a minute now Borderraven, the Constitution just says born in the United States, it doesn’t say anything about parentage-that would disqualify every child of immigrant parents who was born here. That’s a serious misunderstanding of the Constitution.
And besides, he was born in Hawaii, which was a state at the time-a state that is part of the United States. So yeah, he’s a U.S. Citizen.
But by all means, please file suit based on this…I want to see more birthers lose.
– “Keyes is a member of the so-called “birthers” movement. In his complaint, he claimed there is persuasive evidence Obama was born in what is now Kenya …”
The Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth (COLB) foisted upon a confused American public by Mr. Obama neither identifies nor bears a signature of the attending doctor and it does not even identify the birth hospital. That internet image has already been changed 4 times and it does not give the date “Accepted” as it should, but only the date “Filed”. Specialized computer analysis of the COLB shows that there is no indication of a Serial Number present on the layer beneath the black redact panel, indicating forgery of the document.
Unless Mr. Obama shows some verifiable proof to the contrary, I will continue to view his August 4, 1961 long form birth certificate from the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, as his true birth document. A high resolution copy of it is available for free download at WasObamaBornInKenya.com.
Umm ARDem, you are uneducated in immigration and naturalization.
Read US Constitution Article 2 Section 1 Clause 4
“No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;”
The section “or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution” is obsolete after 100 years.
A child born in the USA to immigrant parents, would be a Natural Born Citizen, if both parents had naturalized before the birth. (RE: Perkins v Elg 1939)
Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939): The U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Marie Elizabeth Elg, who was born in the United States of Swedish parents naturalized in the United States, had not lost her birthright U.S. citizenship because of her removal during minority to Sweden and was entitled to all the rights and privileges of that U.S. citizenship. In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the decree that declared Elg “to be a natural born citizen of the United States.”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=307&invol=325
Wow, so much stuff wrong here…Yeah, I’m not even going to try arguing with a pair of brick walls.
But seriously, if you buy into this, put your money where your mouth is and sue-both of you. Come on, do it. Sue like Keyes and company did on whatever ground you want. We’re waiting to see you put your money where your mouths are.
Really? Are Birthers still going on about this?
I’ll say this nicely. Get over it!
Borderraven, you continue to be wildly incorrect. The citizenship of the parents does not matter when the birth is on US soil. Case closed.
Bsteadman: You too are wrong. The birth certificate issued by Hawaii settles it. The Constitution does not require that a president be born in a hospital or even be delivered by any doctor at all. A baby born in the back seat of a cab by a cab driver can be president if the cab is in the United States. Your curiosity over the hospital and the doctor is noted but irrelevant.