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Born in the U.S.A.?
Hearing rejected. ‘Birther’ leader says she won’t let Obama case rest
U.S. President Barack Obama’s place of birth continues to be questioned by a right-wing group.
Photograph by: JASON REED REUTERS, AFP
The U.S. Supreme Court refused yesterday to take up the question of President Barack Obama’s place of birth, which a core group of skeptics continues to challenge despite his U.S. birth certificate.
The high court, without comment, rejected the request by Orly Taitz, a California lawyer who has emerged as a leader of the “birther” movement of mainly right-wing protesters who question where Obama was born.
She had asked the court to annul a federal judge’s $20,000 penalty for filing a “frivolous lawsuit” by her client, a U.S. soldier who refused to deploy to Iraq because she viewed the commander in chief as illegitimate.
The U.S. Constitution allows only “natural born” Americans to be elected to the presidency. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
She had filed a stay of deployment request on behalf of Captain Connie Rhodes, a U.S. army medic who challenged Obama’s legitimacy as president. When Land threw the case out, Taitz publicly branded it “an act of treason.”
In her petition, Taitz asked: “Is the whole nation de facto reduced to the level of slaves or serfs when one without valid vital records, without Social Security number of his own and without a valid long form of birth certificate is able to get in the position of president?”
Yesterday, Taitz said she would not let the case rest.
“I will file a motion for reconsideration,” she said on her website, adding she has “evidence of highly suspicious activity in several federal courts.”
According to a survey last year of 2,000 Republicans, 36 per cent said they believed Obama wasn’t born in the U.S.
Several complaints on the subject have been filed in various U.S. courts, but the motions have been rejected, although Obama’s arch-conservative opponents continue to level the charges.
Last week during a symbolic reading of the Constitution in the House of Representatives, a woman screamed “Except Obama! Except Obama!” when a passage that spells out requirements for becoming president was read.
Read more: https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Born/4088860/story.html#ixzz1AnAAgakC
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