Skip to main content  Justices turn aside another challenge over
Obama's citizenship  By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer
Click to play Do 'birther' arguments hold water?   • The Supreme
Court rejects latest appeal without comment   • The challenge
contends both a president's parents must be U.S. citizens   • It
says Obama's father was a British citizen    Kerchner's
attorney, Mario Apuzzo, had argued in a petition with the
Supreme Court that Obama did not fit the definition of a
"natural-born citizen" required for the nation's highest office,
as defined by Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
Kerchner, a retired military officer who describes himself on
his website as a "genetic genealogy pioneer," argues the framers
of the 1789 document intended a "natural-born" citizen to mean
someone born in the U.S. to parents who were both American
citizens.  'Birther' movement still alive and well  The high
court and other courts had dismissed earlier, unrelated lawsuits
from individuals questioning Obama