Posted on 08/12/2020 8:35:00 AM PDT by Brown Deer
Is Kamala Harris a natural born citizen?
Harris is constitutionally ineligible to be VPOTUS (12th Amendment) or POTUS (Article 2). She is not — nor can she ever be — a natural born citizen...
Harris was born in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964, to an Indian citizen mother and a Jamaican citizen father. Thus, Harris is a native-born American citizen, or a citizen pursuant to what I refer to as the anchor baby provision of the 14th Amendment.
Harris may be a native-born American citizen by the accident of her birth and in my opinion an erroneous 14th Amendment interpretation, but she is also a citizen of Jamaica.
Under Chapter 2 of the Constitution of Jamaica, a person born in Jamaica after August 5, 1962, or born outside Jamaica after that date to a parent who is a Jamaican citizen, is automatically considered a Jamaican citizen at birth. Furthermore, under current Jamaican legislation, citizens of Jamaica can hold multiple nationalities. And this status does not prohibit serving in the legislature of Jamaica!
Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964, and her father was a citizen of Jamaica at the time of her birth. Therefore, the law of Jamaica is clear: Kamala Harris is a citizen of Jamaica, pursuant to Section 3Cb of the Constitution of Jamaica.
And what about citizenship of India? Harris's mother was a citizen of India and, to the best of my knowledge, never actually became an American citizen.
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She is not a natural born citizen....
Trump is the son of an immigrant and four of his five children would be disqualified from presidential eligibility using the same standard that is being applied here to Kamala Harris.
Does President Trump believe his own children are ineligible? I would bet he does not believe this.
“The question is, can an anchor baby be president?“
If Bezos, the Tech Giants and China want her to be president, then she can be president.
230 year old piece of paper ain’t going to change that in a society in full collapse. The only thing that can change that is men under arms.
You must be a retread.
Agreed. This is the worse choice that Biden could have made. So many legitimate things to go after her on. This argument regarding eligibility will go nowhere and take up way too much time in discussion and fighting. Better to spend our time on things that will make a difference and that is to go after her politics. Eligibility is not a hill worth dying on.
No, but Obama wasn’t eligible to be President so sadly it is a moot point.
She’s one step up, on Pee Wee Herman! He MAY have a higher IQ, though... and certainly a better personality! :)
This article postulates a legal opinion that is not the current accepted doctrine. The logic of the current doctrine:
The constitution is the supreme document of the land
It enumerates the power of Congress (Article 1, Section 8, clause 4) the exclusive authority to establish all rules regarding immigration and naturalization. That includes rules for those that require naturalization in order to become a citizen. And those that by the circumstances of birth, are citizens at and from birth i.e. they are natural born, a citizen
Congress expressed it’s rules of naturalization in title 8 section 1401 of the US code
Subsection A specifically incorporates the verbiage of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
In 1898, subsequent to the passing of the 14th amendment, SCOTUS ruled in the case of US vs Wong Kim Ark, that even though he was born to foreign parents, he was born within the US and by function of his birth circumstances, is/was a citizen at birth.
Similar to that case, Mr Harris is born in the US to non-US citizens. In many ways, her case is nearly identical to to the Wong Kim Ark case.
That is the state if the current legal interpretation. If you disagree with that interpretation, work to elect those in congress who will change the laws.
There are only two categories of citizens - those that have been naturalized (became a citizen) and those that are born a citizen. There is no other category.
Trump did not mention this in his reaction. With Roberts as Chief Justice he knows it is pointless to pursue it.
Yes...Justice roberts has the only copy of the fine print memo...and will be ruling on it soon.....
Another “Elephant in the Room” question....
Cruz wasn’t even born here, which seems to be the criteria that the anti-Constitutionalists have settled on.
He has a file somewhere that contains the paperwork that describes how and when he got his citizenship, all children born abroad do, we need to see it.
She is not a natural born citizen....
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What is the PREVAILING definition of a Natural Born Citizen? I don’t mean what does it really mean, but how has it been defined by, say, SCOTUS? There’s the answer.
In the words of The World’s Smartest Lesbian:
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
He rolled over under whatever threat they had on him. He is owned by the enemies of this nation now.
Barry Soetoro was allowed to be president so KH should have no problem unless the idea was to get Pelosi as the Dems next Prezzy because Joe will never make it 4 years in office.
It won’t be Roberts’ vote that matters in November. He should mention it - at least to raise it as a question for the sheeple in the middle.
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