It’s pretty scary that there is no formal, non-arbitrary, non-party-hack process for determining if a presidential candidate is a natural born citizen.
What I read in the memo is this is mostly a “trust me” thing. If the party hacks say their candidate is good to go, and no one in Congress questions it, they are saying “tough.”
States need to have specific laws about procedures for candidates to demonstrate eligibility. That is all.
The country doesn’t need to have this come up again in the future.
I’m thinking Iowa could be a good place to have a law requiring documentation to prove Constitutional eligibility to be provided to the Secretary of State before a name can be printed on a primary or general ballot. Since they are the starting point for the primaries and get a lot of attention that way it could prevent problems all the way down the line.
Arizona tried but they’ve got all they can handle dealing with the illegal invasion, battling our own Injustice Department to have a chance to enforce the law. If they can fight to protect the inner states from being invaded the least we can do is protect them (and all of us) from having the White House invaded.
Pray for me; I’m seriously wondering whether that should be my next major focus. But I probably couldn’t stay anonymous, and that’s scary to my husband.
And we need to expose the stinking lying media. Those birth announcements were a total fabrication, and the evidence suggests they were perpetrated by the media itself, in league with Obama’s people. Of course, Factcheck is supposedly a media arm, but they actually participated in forging the COLB and passing it off as genuine - a direct violation of the Federal General False Statement Act, which should land them in jail.
I wrote in a friend’s name rather than vote for John Gale for Secretary of State because he told me that we don’t need to worry about candidates lying about their eligibility because the media would never let them get away with it. I nearly vomited when I heard him say that. Anybody that stupid should never have a position with any authority.
If anybody wants to be on the ballot for president the first step in the process, after they sign up to put their name in, is the Secretaries of State should automatically request a certified copy of the long-form - which Hawaii rules would allow any SOS to get.
There should be a way for citizens to see the documentation, and the SOS should be REQUIRED to file a lawsuit on behalf of any citizens who question the legal qualifications, which would put the legal definitions squarely in the jurisdiction of the courts since the Constitution doesn’t allow any other branch to interpret the laws or Constitution.