Posted on 08/16/2020 12:36:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Both the White House and the Trump campaign on Sunday said unequivocally that Sen. Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as vice president and blamed the media for fomenting unfounded questions about the issue.
“Yeah,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This is not something that we’re going to pursue … y’all have spent more time on it than anybody in the White House has talking about this.”
Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller said it’s not something anyone on the campaign is talking about.
“In our opinion, it is case closed. End of story. And the only folks who keep bringing it up are the media,” Mr. Miller said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Ms. Harris was born in Oakland, California to a Jamaican-born father and an Indian mother and is a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as vice president.
President Trump has said in recent days that he has no idea whether a theory put forth by a conservative lawyer calling Ms. Harris’s eligibility into question is correct.
“The lawyer happens to be brilliant lawyer, as you probably know,” the president said on Saturday. “He wrote an article saying there could be a problem. It’s not something that I’m going to be pursuing.”
Newsweek has since apologized for the recent opinion piece from attorney John Eastman, saying it’s “being used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“”Kamala Harris’s birth certificate does not show she was identified as “Caucasian””
Who said she was?
npr.org
The founders of American democracy could not have anticipated the technology of the 21st century or many of the ottions oher changes that have redefined the republic they created.
But they clearly foresaw one challenge that faces the inheritors of their handiwork – the threat of foreign interference in our elections.
The fear of foreign interference was a driving issue in the conversaf the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.
Several features of the Constitution that the framers produced that summer had their origins in this fear, as former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter noted in a 2017 speech.
Potter, now president of the Campaign Legal Center, said, “The founders took steps to guard against such [interference] by including in our Constitution guardrails like the requirement that the president be a ‘natural born citizen.’ “
(The fear also stemmed from dreaded claims of royal soverignity from which they escaped-—and the possibility a royal could come to the new country and declare citizenship).
Oh Lord. Here it comes.
I believe SHE has claimed to be Caucasian.......until she saw identity politics was more progressive (gag).
1) Natural born
2) Naturalized
3) Alien.
When I studied the US Constitution in high school in 1966-67, there was no question that "natural born" meant "born here". At the time, the born-in-Mexico George Romney was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President.
I never heard the "two citizen parents" argument until Obama was sworn in.
It would be a serious mistake for the Trump campaign to take this up as an issue, it would lose many more votes than it could possibly gain.
And, if the USSC ever takes a case, they will unquestionably rule 9-0 that "born here" = NBC.
which they understood to be “born is the US with both parents citizens.”
I have been trying to understand that is the case, where do you get that is what “they understood” it to be both parents had to be citizens? Thanks
Yes, we use English here. She was born in the U.S.A. and is eligible in that way. Foreigners who are naturalized after being born in other countries are not natural born citizens, and fringe state folks with foreign sentiments won’t confuse the issue enough to allow foreign-born, naturalized citizens to be presidents.
The Founders could not have imagined Presidential elections in the modern sense, and if they could have, they would have forbidden them.
“”they wrote “natural born citizen””
And what do we think their definition of that was meant to be?
Instead of pushing it as a legal issue, it could be publicized as a practical issue. Maybe she has foreign culture allegiances, and that would be a reason for Americans to vote against her. In other words, many people who are in fact citizens are not loyal to the U.S.A. They can be called un-American in that sense.
But I suspect that very few Democrats or unaffiliated voters care about that. Many of them do care about jobs, crime and other issues important to themselves, though.
“”I never heard the “two citizen parents” argument until Obama was sworn in.””
Wasn’t that an issue more of WASN’T BORN in the U.S.?
The Kenya thing was always stupid.
That he was born a British subject per UK nationality law was, IMO, very important, but was raised by zero members of Congress on January 3, 2009 and did not prevent the Chief Justice of the United States from swearing him in.
This is no longer an issue, by any reasonable consideration.
Exactly. It’s an issue to br resolved. Maybe after POTUS is reelected, and Ruthie is replaced, they can send it to SCOTUS.
Sorry.
Kamala is a 14th amendment citizen.
Congress cannot make her a natural born citizen
And in Luria v. United States, 231 U.S. 9 (1913), the Supreme Court said:“Citizenship is membership in a political society, and implies a duty of allegiance on the part of the member and a duty of protection on the part of the society. These are reciprocal obligations, one being a compensation for the other.
Under our Constitution, a naturalized citizen stands on an equal footing with the native citizen in all respects save that of eligibility to the presidency
The Democrats will instantly become “Birthers” the second Donald trump Jr. announces a run for president.
Prepare yourself for the idiot attack of the FReeperati wannabe be constitutional lawyers who think they know everything...........LOL!
This crap has been going on since Obama in 2008...........
So your children can't be NBCs either, or do they only need one NBC parent to qualify?
Everyone in the administration says one thing and Trump says another. So who to believe?
Ms. Harris was born in Oakland, California to a Jamaican-born father and an Indian mother and is a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as vice president....
So “natural born citizen” means her parents were American citizens when she was born?
Fair enough, but someone needs to check. If it’s the states, so be it. You’ve seen California try to play games to keep off the ballot. And they refused to even look at Obama.
That’s why I want multiple agencies looking at it. Both Federal and State. Let them present their evidence to the nation in plenty of time for challenges to that evidence to be presented.
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