Cheat Sheet

Is Obama eligible to be president? His campaign thought it settled the question months ago, when it posted his birth certificate online. But that didn’t stop certain concerned citizens—some might call them conspiracy theorists—from questioning the Democrat’s eligibility. Today the Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal from one such citizen, Leo Donofrio of New Jersey, who suspected Obama isn’t a “natural born citizen” of the United States because his father was a Kenyan-born British subject. The court rejected Donofrio v. Wells, the second Obama citizenship case it has tossed out, without comment. “In neither case did the Court seek a response, thus indicating it had little interest in either or had found them to be completely without merit,” quips SCOTUSblog.