“There is nothing in U.S. law that says that dual citizenship has ANY EFFECT at all on one’s U.S. citizenship.”
In my post, I was making the assumption that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born as either a U.S. or a British (via Kenya) citizen, it hadn’t even occurred to me that he may have entered the world as both, so you raise an interesting point. This just gives the Supreme Court even more wiggle room to rule in favor of Obama should a case on the question of his citizenship ever reach their docket.
“In my post, I was making the assumption that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born as either a U.S. or a British (via Kenya) citizen, it hadn’t even occurred to me that he may have entered the world as both, so you raise an interesting point. This just gives the Supreme Court even more wiggle room to rule in favor of Obama should a case on the question of his citizenship ever reach their docket.”
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Right. He was both at birth. I don’t think wiggle room is needed. If you’re natural born, that is, a citizen at birth, nothing can take that away from you except your specific request to give it up. Hundreds of natural born Americans are also citizens of the nations in which they were born—people born of at least one U.S. citizen parent in a location outside the United States.