Rawstory:
A small but determined band of conservative protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court Friday morning to pray the justices would invalidate Barack Obama's election. The court was deciding whether it would hear oral arguments in Donofrio v. Wells, which argues that Obama's placement on the New Jersey presidential election ballot was invalid because he is not a natural born citizen.
The justices are expected to dismiss the case. Discussions with several of the 18 demonstrators who gathered despite freezing temperatures revealed disjointed, confusing and increasingly conspiratorial reasons for their presence. Several alleged varying degrees of a coverup to hide the circumstances surrounding Obama's birth; none were willing to accept the much simpler explanation that Obama was in fact a natural-born citizen eligible to be president.
If, as everyone expects, the Supreme Court decides not to hear the case challenging Obama's citizenship, it's unlikely this crowd will be satisfied. The citizenship skeptics may become the 9/11-was-an-inside-job crowd of the Obama era.
The similarities between the skepticism movements should hardly be surprising.
As conspiracy-theory chronicler David Weigle notes in Slate, the Philadelphia lawyer who filed the first lawsuit questioning Obama's citizenship previously went to court on behalf of 9/11 Truthers.The essence of the case being appealed to the Supreme Court, Donofrio v. Wells, is that Obama does not meet the constitution's requirement that the president be a natural-born citizen because his Kenyan father was a British Citizen when Obama was born in 1961. Plaintiffs argue that Obama would have had dual US and British citizen when he was born, making him ineligible.
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