It’s a smart move but I still hope someone else not campaign related takes it up. If they can get a court to even touch it. It’s probably better for Trump if Kamala stays on the ticket. But we need the precedents set for who is eligible and who is not.
The question of what “Natural Born Citizen” means needs to be defined outside of a campaign cycle. But it needs to be defined clearly, as it causes confusion on both sides. And frustration when we can’t get courts to rule on it.
We also need the question of who examines the eligibility of candidates. Nobody claimed respoonsibility for examining Obama’s credentials. I think multiple federal agencies as well as state secretary of stateas should be charged with examining the eligibility of candidates.
In 2004 we had at least two ineligible candidates make it onto the ballots. This should never happen.
“The Socialist Workers Party’s official ticket could not be listed on the ballot in some states because Calero and Hawkins were both ineligible to be President, as Calero was not a native-born citizen and Hawkins was too young.” - Wikipedia
Great post, yes. This does need to be finally settled, and outside of a campaign cycle.
One thing that will need to change, culturally, is our sense of civics. We have been so inundated with “diversity” and porous borders and “kneelers” that we’ve forgotten what it really means to be an American, and to be proud of being an American.
Once that question is settled (politics is downstream of culture) we will see the Supreme Court finally put this to rest.
And the idea of a "presidential election" is not considered in the Constitution, is not a requirement for the appointment of Electors, and the LAST thing we need is ANY Federal involvement.
Why do you suppose the authors of the Constitution cut Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Federal judiciary out of the selection. of a new Administration, leaving it entirely to the States?
Because they were smart, that's why.