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To: xander

Just how does this “reversal of his (Obama’s) Presidency happen, under what law? I think you know the answer is that there is no such mechanism and it never will happen. At best his “legacy” may be besmirched, but Trump is already doing a pretty good job of dismantling it piece by piece, which is what really matters in the end.

I know that some are passionate about the NBC issue, but it seems to me that after Obama, the definition has been changed and it is not what some wish to be, and that it will be deemed non-justiciable if a challenge based on the strict interpretation is brought to the Supreme Court.


1,181 posted on 07/06/2020 10:33:21 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: bigbob
There has never been a case of a foreigner fraudulently using a fake identity to ususrp the presidency. As there is no precedent for how to deal with such a situation, so there is no surprise that there may be no law dealing with such a unique situation. And this is the SCOTUS legal position on natural born citizen definition:

Minor vs Happersett

In 1875, Chief Justice Morisson Waite wrote the opinion of the court on a unanimous decision, containing the following definition:

...the court observed that “new citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization” and that the Constitution “does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens.” Under the common law, according to the court, “it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.

1,185 posted on 07/06/2020 10:45:01 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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