Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility | Opinion
Newsweak ^ | 8/12/20 | JOHN C. EASTMAN

Posted on 08/12/2020 5:36:12 PM PDT by Ben Dover

The fact that Senator Kamala Harris has just been named the vice presidential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has some questioning her eligibility for the position. The 12th Amendment provides that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." And Article II of the Constitution specifies that "[n]o person except a natural born citizen...shall be eligible to the office of President." Her father was (and is) a Jamaican national, her mother was from India, and neither was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of Harris' birth in 1964. That, according to these commentators, makes her not a "natural born citizen"—and therefore ineligible for the office of the president and, hence, ineligible for the office of the vice president.

"Nonsense," runs the counter-commentary....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birther; harris; kamala; kamalaharris; naturalborncitizen; notthisagain
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

1 posted on 08/12/2020 5:36:12 PM PDT by Ben Dover
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

She is not conceivably naturally an American when born with THREE nationalities.

The only way one is naturally a citizen is when one cannot be anything else.

ONE loyalty.
ONE allegiance.
ONE nationality.

THAT’S what the founders were requiring.


2 posted on 08/12/2020 5:44:30 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

I have heard her called:

Indian-American
Jamaican-American
Black-American
Asian-American
African-American

And that is just today.

OH, and Historical-American.

I am waiting for Hysterical-American.


3 posted on 08/12/2020 5:44:38 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

In the Constitution

Article 1 Section 2 lists requirements to be a Representative. “...and been seven years a citizen of the United States...”

It lists the requirements to be a senator as “...and been nine years a citizen of the Unites States...”

Article II, Section 1 lists requirements to be president — “..no person except a natural born citizen...shall be eligible to the office of president...and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.”

It is obvious that a “citizen” is not necessarily a natural born citizen, and the Naturalization Act of 1790, passed by Congress, directly defines natural born as birth from citizen parents.

Harris is not natural born.


4 posted on 08/12/2020 5:45:39 PM PDT by odawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover
That, according to these commentators, makes her not a "natural born citizen"—and therefore ineligible for the office of the president and, hence, ineligible for the office of the vice president.

If Biden loses in November it's a moot question. If Trump loses then Pence needs to file suit questioning her eligibility since he's the only person with standing to sue. Get the Supreme Court to rule on the question once and for all.

5 posted on 08/12/2020 5:47:16 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

Obama wasn’t eligible
Trump isn’t eligible
Both parents have to be born in America
It we left that behind
By the way I am Trump’s biggest supporter


6 posted on 08/12/2020 5:47:47 PM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scrambler Bob

You left out: Ugly-America... and Nasty-American


7 posted on 08/12/2020 5:50:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DoodleDawg

I actually do not want the Roberts court deciding this.

Re-elect Trump and after 2 more appointments, maybe.


8 posted on 08/12/2020 5:52:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

Kamala is eligible, Ted Cruz isn’t. White Man’s law just applies to white men.


9 posted on 08/12/2020 5:52:58 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover
Guessing here we're starting the eligibility question again because it worked so well with Obama. Biden is unquestionably eligible but we wouldn't want him in office anymore than we want her. Let's focus on turning the lot of them out and leave alone discussions that give the enemy opportunity to slander us.
10 posted on 08/12/2020 5:53:15 PM PDT by stormhill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

Did your family own slaves


11 posted on 08/12/2020 5:53:41 PM PDT by Jolla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lurkinanloomin
Thanks, for being consistent is appreciated by many.
12 posted on 08/12/2020 5:54:04 PM PDT by easternsky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: panzerkamphwageneinz

....Both parents have to be born in America....


I do believe you are incorrect.


13 posted on 08/12/2020 5:55:04 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

What difference does it make? Obama was born in Canada to a Kenyan and a teen American too young in 1961 to confer her USA citizenship upon him. Not only was he born Canadian, he never even naturalized as American. The US Senate gave him a passport.


14 posted on 08/12/2020 5:55:25 PM PDT by Yaelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Dover

Pronounced CAWMAWLAW say it wrong and you are sexist and racist unless you are Jim Crowe Joe.


15 posted on 08/12/2020 5:57:47 PM PDT by funfan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: panzerkamphwageneinz

Trump was born here of citizen parents, he is a natural born citizen.
Obama is not.


16 posted on 08/12/2020 5:58:35 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: panzerkamphwageneinz

Kamala is ineligible. The globalists want to change the Constitutional requirement that a president must be a natural born citizen by precedent, since they don’t have the support to do it by amendment.

panzerkamphwageneinz, Trump is eligible. Both parents don’t have to be born in the US for their child to be a natural born citizen. They both have to be US citizens at the time of the child’s birth on US soil. Donald Trump’s mother became a naturalized US citizen in 1942, four years before he was born.


17 posted on 08/12/2020 5:59:44 PM PDT by Cara C
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: easternsky

Thank you for the support, you may have noticed I draw some flak.


18 posted on 08/12/2020 6:01:02 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Lurkinanloomin

Please keep posting this. Our citizens can’t afford to forget or overlook this.


19 posted on 08/12/2020 6:02:12 PM PDT by thecodont
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: panzerkamphwageneinz
Trump isn’t eligible

Both of Trump's parents were citizens of the US when Trump was born. His father was born here and his mother became a citizen in 1942. DJT was born in 1946 in the US.

Trump is eligible for President as a Natural Born Citizen.

FReegards!

1st-Annual-Freeper-Convention-1million-vet-march

20 posted on 08/12/2020 6:03:01 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson