Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Claiming Obama Ineligible to be President

The emergency plea by New Jersey native Leo Donofrio states that Barack Obama was a British subject at the time of his birth, following his Kenyan-born father's citizenship at that time, which makes him ineligible to serve as President of the United States. It seems that Barack Obama has been able to satisfy most claims about his citizenship by producing documentation that confirms he was born on August 4, 1961 in Hawaii. The validity of Obama's birth certificate has also been brought into question by a separate lawsuit, which claims that he was not in fact born in Hawaii.

The second suit claims that Obama was likely born in Kenya and that he may be a current citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a young boy. To this point, the suits appear to have little or no legal merit and there does not appear to be any chance that these suits contain credible evidence to prove that Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States.

And in fairness to other presidential candidates, Donofrio's lawsuit also claimed that John McCain and Roger Calero, the Socialist Workers candidate for president, were not natural born citizens of the U.S. - and thus not eligible to hold office.

At the end of the day, it would seem that the lawsuits challenging the citizenship of Barack Obama are simply efforts on the part of the plaintiffs to get a little easy press and maybe some face time on their local television stations. It's unlikely that campaign officials in all camps didn't do their due diligence to ensure that Obama met all of the legal requirements to be president. If nothing else, every politician understands the election process.