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To: David

So, legally speaking, we still don’t have a definition of “natural born citizen” as it relates to the constitutional requirements for president?


76 posted on 06/23/2012 5:30:51 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: WildHighlander57
So, legally speaking, we still don’t have a definition of “natural born citizen” as it relates to the constitutional requirements for president?

In the sense of trying to predict what the Supreme Court would do with the issue in case, in my opinion we do. If we have a person who was born in the United States, he will be held eligible to hold the office whoever his parents are; wherever they were citizens.

And if he gets to the Court on a record that demonstrates that he was born outside the United States, the Court will hold that he is not eligible to hold the office and will rule that what he has done acting as President including but not limited to appointment of two Supreme Court Justices is void.

The dreamworld view that is so widespread here that would have him held ineligible because he has said that his father is Barack Obama Sr. who was not a citizen has no prayer--serious Constitutional Lawyers view the suggestion as a non starter.

The dreamworld argument has damaged our tactical case. Because had our counsel focused on the proposition that the only real evidence of his place of birth was his oral statement against interest that he was born in Kenya, we would have been able to get a court ruling that would have forced Barry to appear with evidence about where he was in fact born or be ejected from the ballot in Georgia.

79 posted on 06/23/2012 6:09:44 PM PDT by David
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