Posted on 08/13/2020 1:47:22 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
"Donald Trump's campaign lawyer promotes 'birther' conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be VP because her parents were immigrants".
The Trump campaign's Senior Legal Advisor Jenna Ellis pushed a so-called 'birther' narrative Thursday that Kamala Harris isn't eligible to be vice president because her parents weren't citizens when she was born in Oakland, California.
'It's an open question, and one I think Harris should answer so the American people know for sure she is eligible,' Ellis told ABC News.
Ellis' views on the issue came to light after she retweeted a link to a 'birther' op-ed published on Newsweek's website Wednesday written by right-wing law professor John C. Eastman.
Eastman pointed to how Article 2 of the Constitution says only a 'natural born citizen' can serve as vice president and president, but suggests there's some interpretation of the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause that could exclude someone in Harris' situation.
He also argued that while the modern view of citizenship includes every person born on American soil, that belief started after Harris was born in 1964. 'Indeed, the Supreme Court has that anyone born on U.S. soil, no matter the circumstances of the parents, is automatically a U.S. citizen,' he also wrote.
Eastman had run as a Republican in 2010 for California attorney general, but lost his primary. Harris ultimately won the position as a Democrat.
Eastman's op-ed received tremendous backlash, with many pointing out that it echoed the conspiracy theory pushed by President Donald Trump and others during President Barack Obama's tenure.
Josh Chafetz, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, called Eastman's interpretation of eligibility as 'racist nonsense,' in a FactCheck.org post on the controversy.
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So that makes Kamala Harris an anchor baby.
We need to and birthright citizenship in those cases, which Trump wants to do. How is that going to happen, under Trump or ever, if an anchor baby presidential or vice presidential candidate does not have their status calendar as a natural born citizen.
It really should be adjudicated.
You can be born here & be considered a US citizen-—Native born.
Anchor babies are floating around in that soup.
Natural Born is entirely different.
IF I breed 2 dogs —one of which is AKC registered & one who is NOT AKC registered-—I have a litter of MUTTS which CAN NOT be registered with AKC.
If I breed my Registered Arabian Stallion to a mare that is NOT registered, then I will have a foal that is called “Grade”. That foal CAN NOT be registered. There is a ‘Half-Arabian’ Registry, but the foal is NOT considered a ‘purebred.
Kamala is NOT ELIGIBLE.
The Dems shoved Obama past us. Howard Dean & Pelosi shoved him down our throats. We have learned more since then.
I don’t think they can do it again.
In fact, Pelosi & the entire Democrat Party can be in serious legal trouble for ‘Certifying’ Kamala to even be a candidate for “president’.
Kamala is in the same boat.
We all know what the purpose of the 14th Amendment was so I guess this is just another thing we can blame on Chief Justice Chase. But what it was meant for and what is says are two different things. A clear reading of the 14th Amendment says that Harris is a citizen because she was born here and was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. The question then becomes is she a natural-born citizen and that is the unknown. There are about as many definitions of what qualifies one as a natural-born citizens around here as there are posters. Until the question comes before the Supreme Court then Harris's definition is as valid as anyone elses.
You mean it doesn’t apply to presidential candidates like Marco Rubio (both parents were immigrants from Cuba, and not American citizens? How about Ted Cruz (born in Canada, father not an American citizen)?
You mean it doesn’t apply to presidential candidates like Marco Rubio (both parents were immigrants from Cuba, and not American citizens? How about Ted Cruz (born in Canada, father not an American citizen)?
It doesn't mean you are either. It's a question for the courts and I have no idea how to get it there. If Pence loses then he's probably got the best claim, perhaps only claim, to standing. But even that isn't a guarantee.
This whole notion of Kamala not being eligible is crap. Everyone knows it. “””
Many of us KNOW that she is NOT ELIGIBLE.
She carries dual citizenship thru her father to Jamaica.
Dual citizenship thru her mother to India is still being assessed.
He is an anchor baby only-—NOT eligible to be termed NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
That requires BOTH parents to be USA citizens when she is born here.
I always suspected you were a very intelligent man, and you just proved it. I cannot imagine why any rational person would want to get into elective politics at any level in this environment.
YOU are entirely CORRECT.
No Ted Cruz got a pass too. So did McCain. its almost as if...well I digress.
Military bases are not considered US soil, but there are exceptions, and the Panama Canal is one of those.
US Embassies are considered US soil.
Having said that, Harris, Cruz, Jindal, Haley, and Rubio are NOT natural born citizens. Neither is Obama.
She was born a citizen of Jamaica, not of the United States.
Nonsense, she was a citizen of the United States from the moment she was born.”””
She has dual citizenship with Jamaica thru her father.
She is a NATIVE BORN citizen here in the USA.
She IS NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
2 entirely different things.
“Without a definitive decision by the courts...”
Uhh...isn’t that what Trump is about to do? Claim she’s ineligible, hack his way through judicial cowardice until he gets to the U.S. Supreme Court, and ask the good Justices to stop “evading” that issue as Justice Thomas has admitted to, and finally give us a “definitive decision” before election day?
He got support from Howard Dean—in charge of the DNC—and Pelosi who had to ‘certify’ Obama since she was Speaker of the House.
They both commited FRAUD.
She has dual citizenship because Jamaica recognizes children born to their citizens—no matter where they are born.
She is a NATIVE BORN citizen here in the USA.
She IS NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
2 entirely different things.
Correct. She is a citizen by statute. A natural born citizen requires no law to bestow that upon them.
She may actually be a derivative US citizen. Look that one up.
“It’s a question for the courts and I have no idea how to get it there. If Pence loses then he’s probably got the best claim, perhaps only claim, to standing. But even that isn’t a guarantee”
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Trump himself probably already has standing based on Biden’s pick of Harris. Ballots will probably start being printed in less than three weeks! Git ‘R Done, Don!
You do know that Barack Obama was president, don’t you?
So if that’s the case, why post silly nonsense that she is “NOT ELIBIBLE”?
If Putin and his wife dropped a baby in the US, it would be eligible to be POTUS.
No, it was not."
Yes, the question was raised then. Just because it didn't' run 24x7 in the news by ABC/CBS/NBC, or that you haven't heard of it, doesn't mean it never happened.
President Chester Arthur's eligibility was questioned back in his day.
Soebarkah wasn't unique. He wasn't the first, or even the 2nd, to have his eligibility called into question.
Now that Harris's eligibility will be called into question, and rightfully so, just means that she will be the 4th...at least.
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