[Uncle Sham]

"But note that the Constitution lists requirements to be President, Senator, and Representative but does not explicitly require candidates for these offices to prove that they are qualified."

See post #115 which refers to the twentieth amendment, section three. It explicitly requires that the "President elect" must "qualify" or not be allowed to serve as President. Your Congressperson is not doing his job.

[SaxxonWoods]

I wonder why we don’t seem to get any actual attorneys (Orly and perhaps OldDeckHand excepted) commenting about Obama’s eligibilty. There must be quite a few Freeper attorneys who could shed some light on the situation.

[SaxxonWoods]

“See post #115 which refers to the twentieth amendment, section three. It explicitly requires that the “President elect” must “qualify” or not be allowed to serve as President. Your Congressperson is not doing his job.”

I thought the Secretaries of each state had the job of certifying a presidential candidate as qualified. (I’m not an expert, so I could be wrong.)

[normanpubbie]

Obama was elected on November 4th and inaugurated on January 20th. As I understand Amendment XX, the qualification challenge period of clause two of the amendment ends the day the new presidential term begins. Or to put it into contemporary slang, that train left the station on January 20th, 2009.

If one contends that the qualification period is still active, then it must also be active for the rest of the term and even after the President leaves office. No court anywhere in the land will buy that argument.

Article II, Section 1, describes the qualifications to be President and does not have a time limitation. That is the constitutional provision you folks need to concentrate on, not Amendment XX.