by DCist contributor Dave Weigel

Four days ago, Roger Bredow uploaded a video to YouTube beseeching like-minded people to come to Washington, D.C. and stand with him outside the Supreme Court. “[Barack] Obama was born a dual citizen,” Bredow said, “British, and a citizen of the United States, at birth.” This, said Bredow, meant that the president-elect could never take the oath of office. And on Friday, the Supreme Court would read Donofrio v. Wells, a suit brought by a New Jersey poker player against his state elections officer, which laid out the charges in the hopes of nullifying the election.

Today at 8 a.m., they came. “If I’m going to be honest with you,” said Bredow, sporting a floppy American flag hat that he’d promised on YouTube he’d be wearing, “I thought I might be the only person here.” He had flown in from Georgia. The other fifteen to twenty people who cycled in and out of the small protest had traveled shorter distances—southern Pennsylvania, northern Virginia—but they felt they had to do something.