I imagine that SCOTUS takes Sunday off.
I’m certainly not getting any hopes up. But delays are probably favorable, because they suggest that at least there is some reason why they are not immediately rejecting it.
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So how did Obama get an American passport the first time?
Is it possible that Obama did not have to present a long form birth certificate---especially an Hawaii long form birth certificate---like most passport applications have to do when Obama obtained his American passport?
My reason for asking the question above is this: During the presidential campaign, I read a theory on how Obama could have obtained an American passport without presenting a long form Hawaii birth certificate. The theory was written by a poster on an Israel website.
His theory went something like this:
Way back then when Obama was under 18 years of age, if a child was first listed on his parent's passport, he could apply for and easily obtain his OWN passport by claiming that he had already been listed on his parent's passport.
That is, a person like Obama could easily obtain an American passport without having to provide all the necessary documents, like a long form birth certificate, that most passport applications have to provide.
According to the poster, once Obama obtained that first passport, all he had to do to keep his American passport up to date was to make sure that he renewed it whenever the renewal time came up.
In other words, Obama---under the poster's theory---could have continually renewed his American passport without ever providing a long form birth certificate, the one with the names of the doctor and the birth hospital, because he had originally been listed on his mother's American passport.
I don't know much about American passport regulations, so I don't know if the poster's Obama passport theory is possible.
NOTE: I recently read that at one point, Obama's mother petitioned the passport office to take Obama off of her passport.
If true, then it means that at one point Obama was indeed listed on his mother's passport, but it also brings up the interesting and intriguing question as to why Obama's mother wanted to take Obama's name off of her passport when Obama was still very young, she was still married to Indonesian citizen Soetoro, and Obama was traveling between Hawaii and Indonesia.
And, more importantly, it brings up this question: If Obama was taken off of his mother's passport when he was still very young and traveling between Hawaii and Indonesia, then when did very young Obama get his OWN American passport so that he could continue to travel back and forth between Hawaii and Indonesia, where very young Obama moved in order to be with his mother and stepfather Soetoro?
Any thoughts?