# What would happen if the birthers turned out to be right about Obama?

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**Created:** [May 20, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-the-birthers-turned-out-to-be-right-about-obama/622544 "2012-05-20T21:05:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-the-birthers-turned-out-to-be-right-about-obama/622544/81 "2012-05-28T19:27:02Z")

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> [@Lemur866](#):
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> The courts aren’t going to declare that Biden was really president the whole time. Obama was president. The Supreme Court doesn’t have the power to declare that Obama was never president, or is no longer president. Only Congress has the power to remove Obama from office, through impeachment, or via the 25th Amendment.

That’s ridiculous!  
In 1868, SCOTUS took it on themselves to use a case on government bonds to declare whether or not the Confederacy ever seceeded. They took it on themselves to declare who was elected President in 2000 according to many on this board. Why is it such a stretch for SCOTUS to say that the Notarization Act was not properly vetoed?

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