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Posted on | May 3, 2011 | No Comments
Obama faces new court appeal over claims birth certificate is ‘doctored or fake’
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:46 AM on 3rd May 2011
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Leaders of the so-called ‘birther’ movement have claimed that the birth certificate produced by Barack Obama is a fake.
Despite the president providing the the full long-form document last week, the ‘birthers’ – fronted by Donald Trump – have taken their case to a federal appeals court in Southern California.
They claim the birth certificate had been doctored; that the document’s serial number was out of sequence, the typing wasn’t aligned, and it was printed on green paper instead of white paper like other Hawaiian birth records of that era.
But it was unclear how far their arguments would go, given the previous failed lawsuits on the issue and concern from the court about whether the latest claim was filed too late to be considered.
Obama’s production of the vital record was aimed at quashing any lingering doubt among critics who contend he shouldn’t have been elected because he couldn’t prove he was a U.S. citizen – a prerequisite for the nation’s highest office.
But it has not deterred Orly Taitz, an lawyer at the forefront of the birther movement
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