Court rejects Obama citizenship challenge by GOP Senate candidate
President Barack Obama spoke at the White House yesterday about his decision to release a copy of his birth certificate issued by the state of Hawaii in an effort to quell doubts about his birthplace. "We've got enormous challenges ahead of us. We're not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers
MONTPELIER, Vt. >> 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.
Paige, who lost in last year’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, sought a court order barring Secretary of State Jim Condos from putting Obama’s name on the ballot.
He lost in the Superior Court and now at the state Supreme Court.
