Sunday, October 20, 2013
NECN: Vermont Supreme Court Rejects Obama Citizenship Challenge
Via NECN: Vermont Court Rejects Obama Citizenship Challenge
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Supreme Court has rejected a claim by a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Vermont that President Barack Obama's name should not have been placed on last year's Vermont ballot because he is not a "natural-born citizen" of the United States.
H. Brooke Paige had made the claim based on what he said were legal treatises and other writings from around the time of the U.S. Constitution. Obama is a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in Kenya. [...] Continued @ NECN. Background reports here.
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