The Supreme Court Again Rejects "Birther" Appeal

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CNN reports that the Sup.Ct. has again rejected an appeal from a "birther" proponent questioning the citizenship of President Obama. Today, the Court turned aside without comment a request for a rehearing of various claims, after dismissing the original appeal in late January. Gregory Hollister had called on Justices Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to withdraw from considering the "constitutional" claims, contending a conflict of interest by the president's two high court appointees. Lower federal courts had also dismissed Hollister's claims. The high court had also dismissed earlier, unrelated lawsuits from individuals questioning the president's citizenship even though 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. ..... Obama's staff produced copies of his birth certificate when he was running for president in 2008, and have previously dismissed questions over his citizenship. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll in July found that 71% of Americans believed Obama definitely or probably was born in the U.S., while 27% said he definitely or probably was not. The largest support of the idea that President Obama was definitely or probably not born in the U.S. was among Republicans, at 41% compared with Independents at 29%, and Democrats at 15%. Is this continuation of attempting to prove that the President is not an American citizen worth the paper the charges are written on ... how about the waste of time of the nation's lower and highest courts?