On December 20, 2008. two days after the Electoral College has elected John McCain President, the Supreme Court rules that he is ineligible to serve. The decision is based on the fact that the Arizona Senator was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Sine all the treaties ceded the Canal Zone to the U.S said control as if sovereign ¨ The zone was always legally sovereign territory of Panama, the court ruled he was not born on U.S. soil and therefore not an natural born American. One month later President Sarah Palin was sworn in and official nominated Bobby Jindal as Vice President.