Could it be possible? Is it really the end (please) for the nutty “birther” movement, whose conspiracy theories rejected President Obama was a natural born US citizen?
Looking good!
On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr., a Pennsylvania man who sought to force the president to produce documents regarding his birth and citizenship. This is not the first time the Court has dismissed this absurd question, but USDemoCrazy hopes it will be the last time.
The details of the case are hilarious:
Mr. Kerchner, a man with no background in law or any qualifications to interpret the Constitution for that matter, describes himself on his website as a “genetic genealogy pioneer.” He argues that Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution which states “natural-born citizen,” actually means “someone born in the U.S. to parents who were both American citizens.”
To refresh your memory, the clause in question states: “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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
We will now let you, the reader interpret this Constitutional question.
Wait, no we won’t. (Unless you’re a Supreme Court justice, in which case, we’re flattered that you’re reading our blog.)
We think this case is closed.