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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Would you agree that the SCOTUS should decide/clarify that Constitutional question?

Why do you think they are (as Justice Thomas said) “evading that issue”?


567 posted on 01/06/2011 11:04:56 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion
Would you agree that the SCOTUS should decide/clarify that Constitutional question?

Exactly what is the constitutional question to which you are referring? Contrary to lay belief, the Court generally hears cases are about pretty specific propositions of law, not factual disputes. So what specific issue of law are you asking the Court to accept?

Why do you think they are (as Justice Thomas said) “evading that issue”?

I think that was a statement of fact rather than one of intent. And I think the reasons they haven't addressed that issue are threefold. First, the Supreme Court is not a factfinding body, and to me, the best argument against Obama -- that he wasn't born in Hawaii -- is a point of fact. Second, I think the legal argument that both of your parents must be citizens for you to be considered a "natural born" citizen, regardless of the text of the 14th Amendment, is a laugher that would lose 9-0. And third, I think they view it as a "political question", and they tend to duck those.

575 posted on 01/06/2011 12:56:58 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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