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Campbell generated no controversy, but his nomination was not acted upon. On December 7, 2016, Campbell, in letters to Obama and Kansas Senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, requested that his name be withdrawn from further consideration. [216] His nomination expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress.
A lawsuit filed by Albert Hendershot in December 2011 alleged Obama's birth certificate was forged and that he was ineligible to be on the Alabama primary ballot. [106] On January 9, 2012, Hendershot's suit was dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction, and two similar suits were filed by Harold Sorensen and another Alabama citizen from Pell City ...
Trump gave himself credit for putting the controversy to rest and also repeated a false claim that Hillary Clinton, [157] his opponent in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and one of Obama's opponents in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, had started the controversy concerning Obama's place of birth in order to harm the candidacy of ...
Based on the angle of some date stamps and type, investigators claim the White House used that woman's birth certificate as a template to falsify Obama's. They also say two experts back that theory.
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Legislation introduced in March 2011 would have required presidential candidates to present their birth certificates when filing their nomination papers; the proposed enactment date was changed to 2013 and thus would not have affected the 2012 presidential elections. [59] The proposed legislation was not voted out of committee. [60]
Obama telephoned Judge Sotomayor at 9 pm EST on May 25 to alert her that she was his choice. [37] Later that night, he called the other three finalists and informed them of his decision. [37] Obama announced the nomination the next morning in the East Room of the White House in a press conference alongside Sotomayor and Joe Biden. [1]
Garland's nomination expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress, after languishing 293 days. [10] [82] Garland's nomination was the 15th nomination to the Supreme Court to lapse at the end of a session of Congress. [83] Barack Obama was succeeded by Donald Trump on January 20, 2017.