[DebraAI]

I’ll make this simple. If you were born here in the U.S. you are a citizen and can run for any office no matter what anyone else thinks.

Anyone who thinks you cannot will be laughed at by the population.

[humblegunner]

Well praise God for your expert legal opinion.

[Drew68]

I’ll make this simple. If you were born here in the U.S. you are a citizen and can run for any office no matter what anyone else thinks.

You are correct.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I’llm ake this simple.

If you were born here in the U.S. you are a citizen and can run for any office no matter what anyone else thinks.If you were born here in the U.S. you are a citizen and can run for any office no matter what anyone else thinks.

Riiight (sigh)

WRONG!

[SgtHooper]

You stepped in it now, Debbie.

[muawiyah]

You must meet age requirements, residency requirements, criminal conviction prohibitions, and a whole host of other restrictions and entanglements like LIVING IN THE DISTRICT

You're new here aren't you.

[cynwoody]

I’ll make this simple. If you were born here in the U.S. you are a citizen and can run for any office no matter what anyone else thinks.

Anyone who thinks you cannot will be laughed at by the population.

Exactly right. And laughed at not just by the population in general, but by a very select subset thereof. Here we see one member of that subset swearing in a guy whose father was a foreign student (as far as we know), for the second time that day, just to make sure he got the wording right:

Chief Justice John Roberts, just making sure

Stare decisis et non quieta movere.