That’s why I said Fam has been scrubbed and I included the definition of Fam in the post. It is a manual for the use of the State Department. I don’t touch type I pick with various fingers and I make typing errors enjoy finding them if it floats your boat.
I find it suspicious that that particular reference has been removed and a statement substituted which conveys a totally different meaning. Inquiring minds wonder why and why now.
I find it suspicious that that particular reference has been removed and a statement substituted which conveys a totally different meaning. Inquiring minds wonder why and why now.
Well, I have a guess, if you'd care to hear it.
My guess is that was something that had been sitting there for awhile, and something to which nobody was paying much attention. Eventually, someone drew attention to it. And once that happened, someone made the decision to scrub it.
Why? Well, because it had absolutely no business being there in the first place. It is not the role of the State Department to determine what constitutes a "natural born citizen" -- it just has nothing to do with them. That is the business of the federal courts, or Congress, or maybe even the state courts or state officials to determine eligibility to be placed on a ballot. But it looks to me like State had a summer law clerk with a little too much time on his/her hands, so someone assigned this as a dumb project.
In any case, the State Department's view of what constitutes a "natural born citizen" is entitled to zero legal deference. So it was "scrubbed" because somebody finally asked the question "what the hell is this doing here"?