Same song, second verse.
Ping.
Just looking here it’s a wonder the 9 in SCOTUS wouldn’t be taking on the Donofrio case. One would have to think they have disgorged these five articles. One would have to think the four conservatives and at least one other would issue or want to issue decision.
In haste I post. It’d take me a lot of time to study as I should. Just passing it on without comment, except my real PC has just had its famous pre-repair crash now back from the shop a week. I’ve also lost my long ping list so do as you would, please. Someone should get this to Donofrio, really. I just don’t, in what I’ve scrolled through here, think he’s onto some of this anyways. My files are trapped in a CPU that won’t turn on as of less than an hour ago. Of course there are many references to his cited materials but there are things…well, maybe I’m dreaming.
Here is the one FR post from this I found in quick search of “Natural Born Citizen”.
Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause 10/22/2008 6:31:48 PM PDT • by Dajjal • 7 replies • 707+ views
There are four more entries that go back to Sept 13 – didn’t FR lose files with a server change back around here? I believe I caught it on Atlas Shruggs, where I was lurking / mining back then, along with Godlikeproductions (yes, of all places) and TexasDarlin. I didn’t join FR until later.
I'm sure you agree worthy of (re) post now.
Here goes:
moi ping 4 u
The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility
Not really........Its about as relevant as starting the 2012 campaign coverage right now.
Sorry for this second post, it should have been the first.
Big John lost back in November.........its over, let it go.........
Same song, second verse.
Ping.
They get their facts wrong in the first sentence. John McCain was not born in the Panama Canal Zone. He was born in the Republic of Panama.
It’s irrelevant now since McCain lost, but it might suddenly become relevant the next time a candidate is born outside the US territory. Of course, if the candidate happens to be a Democrat, the Michigan Law Review will insist that this article was a bunch of bull.
What’s sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. But somehow the democrats always manage to get out of the consequences that apply to everyone else.
Well, it seems very interesting to me.
Of course, it’s typical of liberals to have a full bore symposium on McCain’s eligibility, sponsored by a highly respected law review, but to completely ignore the question of Obama’s eligibility.
But, of course, it also shows that a respected law review and a number of constitutional lawyers consider the question of natural born citizenship to be very important, and enough to rule out any candidate who doesn’t properly qualify. If that applies to McCain, then it applies to Obama or anyone else who runs for president.
That’s why I’ve said that Donofrio was right to question all of the candidates in his suit. Every candidate should be properly vetted. That appears to have been done in the case of McCain, but no harm in raising the issue. It has NOT been done in the case of Obama.
A small part of me wanted him disqualified because maybe it would wake up some of the pro illegals that someone who was born overseas because his father was serving our country was ineligible but if his mother had skipped across the border and had him he would be even if she was an illegal!
Here is the website to the guy who wrote the first article... http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=147
I’m going to write him an email to ask his opinion of the current ‘conspiracy’ regarding obammy’s BC.
I’m wondering why we don’t here from these people now? Is it because of the msm blackout? Or they are protecting their boy?
Who knew that the U of Michigan Law Review was published by a bunch of tinfoil-hatted nuts!
Spiro-—Spiro-—Spiro
PLEASE GO READ THE CONCLUSION TO HIS ARTICLE! HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH OBAMMY!
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Here is an exerpt from the Spiro article. Note the use of the term ‘hyper-American’ when referencing the military post. It’s all one paragraph...sorry if its tough to read.
There are other permutations. Take, for starters, a twist on the birth circumstances of McCain’s opponent, Barack Obama. If Obama had been born in Nairobi instead of Honolulu—not at all implausible, given his family circumstances— would he be eligible for the presidency? Obama would have been born a U.S. citizen under section 301(g) of the Nationality Act, as the child of an alien and a citizen who was resident in the United States for a period of five years prior to the birth. (Democratic candidate Bill Richardson’s life suggests a similar counterfactual. His parents were living in Mexico City at the time of his mother’s pregnancy, and he spent his early years there, but his father sent his mother to California to deliver him with the intention of securing his citizenship.) The resolution of Obama’s case on those facts would be both more and less straightforward. On the one hand, the constitutional text would pose less of an obstacle; unlike McCain, Obama would have been born a citizen. On the other hand, his birth wouldn’t have been in the hyper-American context of an overseas American military installation, and the refusal to recognize Obama’s eligibility would not risk penalizing military personnel. On balance, Obama’s hypothetical case would probably come out the same way as McCain’s, even at a higher risk of campaign sloganeering (if only by way of highlighting Obama’s cosmopolitan roots). His life story—as with McCain’s, clearly “American” in any sense of the word—would sharply cut in favor of establishing eligibility. And with the McCain episode in the history books, the case for candidates born abroad as U.S. citizens to U.S. citizen parents would be more easily made, insofar as McCain has breached any putative territorial parameter.
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Well Dajjal- wanted to inform I went through your impressive comment / post list (impressive, yes- so many by the single word “obumpa” that were just SO MANY good threds that I can see)...
and did only come up with the two posts from the above organ, one of which I’ve cited in my original post. So I don’t feel too badly. Took me so long here because I kept clicking down so many refs off your “obumpa”s. Keep on!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112733/posts
The Justiciability of Eligibility: May Courts Decide Who Can Be President?
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:31:55 PM • 1 of 9
Dajjal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112732/posts
Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:31:49 PM • 1 of 8
Dajjal