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The Huffington Post
December 8, 2008

Obama Birth Certificate Challenge Turned Down By Supreme Court
December 8, 2008 11:54 AM EST |

President-elect Barack Obama listens to a reporter's question during a
news conference in Chicago, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles
Dharapak)


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WASHINGTON — 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.

Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain
and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born
citizens and thus ineligible to be president.

At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court.
Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in
Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has
confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he
lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's
lawsuit.