Supreme Court Rejects Another "Birther" Lawsuit

Given the far right elements on the U. S. Supreme Court - e.g., Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito and Scalia - it will be interesting to see how the Fruit Loops/Kool-Aid drinker crowd tries to spin the latest rejection of a lunatic lawsuit brought by "birthers." Indeed, the Justices did not even deign to comment on the case as they turned it down. As I've noted before, anyone dealing with a full deck - a requirement that obviously disqualifies Mike Huckabee - ought not to clinging to the delusional myth that Barack Obama is not a native born American. CNN looks at the latest defeat for the irrational elements of the GOP base and Tea Party crowd. Here are some highlights:
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The Supreme Court has again rejected an appeal from a "birther" proponent questioning the citizenship of President Barack Obama. The justices Monday turned aside without comment a request for a rehearing of various claims, after dismissing the original appeal in late January.
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The long-shot petition by Gregory Hollister had called on Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to withdraw from considering the constitutional claims, contending a conflict of interest by the president's two high court appointees.
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Lower federal claims had dismissed Hollister's claims. The justices had also dismissed earlier, unrelated lawsuits from individuals questioning Obama's citizenship. State birth certificate records show he was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother is a native of Kansas; his father was born in Kenya.
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The grass-roots legal issue has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts. . . . . The respondent in the case was labeled as "Barry Soetoro," the name Hollister said Obama used when he was a child living in Indonesia with his family. The case is Hollister v. Soetoro (10-678).
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A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll in July found that 71% of Americans believed Obama definitely or probably was born in the United States, while 27% said he definitely or probably was not. The sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. The largest support for the idea he was definitely or probably not born in the United States was among Republicans, at 41%,
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As I have stated previously, to be a member of today's GOP one must be clinically insane, suffer from severe paranoia, or have had a lobotomy. Rational sentient individuals need not apply.