Just in time for the 2012 Republican primary, Birthers are back, baby! America’s most tiresome and litigious fringe movement has re-emerged with suspicions about the location of Mitt Romney’s birth. A ragtag team of southern California Birthers have filed suit against the California secretary of state in order to ensure “that she verify the eligibility of all presidential candidates before putting them on the November ballot,” The Los Angeles Times reports. “The birthers’ lawyer, Gary Kreep of Ramona, [California], said Wednesday that his clients wanted the issue of Romney’s eligibility raised because of his parents’ long residency in Mexico.”

Romney’s father was born in Mexico though emigrated to the United States in 1912—35 years before a nerd, a preppie, a jock, a princess, and a burnout built Mitt in high-school chemistry laboratory using a Bunsen burner, an egg timer, some old batteries, vinegar, and melted beige crayons. The key point here: that high-school chemistry laboratory was in the United States.