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Laura Loomer Goes Full Birther Over Nikki Haley: The "Natural Born" Constitutional Requirement Issue Comes to the Fore
PJ Media ^ | 12/26/2023 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 12/26/2023 5:52:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Laura Loomer, a die-hard Trump supporter, is taking a page out of Hillary Clinton’s playbook by going into full birther mode.

'Nikki Haley Is An Anchor Baby Who Is Unqualified To Be US President,” an article posted to her website on Christmas Eve insists. Her piece argues that since her parents were Indian immigrants who didn’t become naturalized U.S. citizens until after her birth, Haley is an “anchor baby” with birthright citizenship and doesn’t qualify as a “natural born citizen."

She shared her article on X/Twitter, and users promptly flagged it with a Community Note.

NEW:@NikkiHaley Is An Anchor Baby Who Is Unqualified To Be US President

MUST READ! 👇🏻 https://t.co/7070uvKLqa— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) December 25, 2023

Loomer was livid when a Community Note flagged the post. "Why do @CommunityNotes censor factual posts?" she asked in a follow-up post on X/Twitter. "Read this article and see for yourself how this is wrongfully community noted. Natural born citizenship isn’t the same as birthright citizenship."

There were plenty of her supporters agreeing with her, as well as those calling her out for being flat-out wrong.

But what are the facts? Here’s what the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University says on the matter: 

A natural born citizen refers to someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth, and did not need to go through a naturalization proceeding later in life. Under the 14th Amendment's Naturalization Clause and the Supreme Court case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US. 649, anyone born on U.S. soil and subject to its jurisdiction is a natural born citizen, regardless of parental citizenship. This type of citizenship is referred to as birthright citizenship. One can be a citizen while not being a natural born citizen


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; donate; haley; laura; lauraloomer; lauralooney; loomer; naturalborn; naturalborncitizen; nikki; nikkihaley
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To: SeekAndFind

Should be any any usa voter!
If an American cannot question a person’s status running for president .. then SCOTUS is useless!☹️


21 posted on 12/26/2023 6:28:43 PM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Subject to its jurisdiction
Means someone who is a citizen
Someone who is not a citizen annoy give birth to a baby that is suddenly a citizen
No one here illegally has ever given birth to a citizen regardless of how badly that has been interpreted
There is no such thing as a birther
Just illegals according to the constitution


22 posted on 12/26/2023 6:28:45 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: SeekAndFind

Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasts Possible Trump Campaign Hire Loomer—Calls Her ‘Unstable And A Documented Liar’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/04/07/marjorie-taylor-greene-blasts-possible-trump-campaign-hire-loomer-calls-her-unstable-and-a-documented-liar/

Constitutional law doesn’t seem to be her strong suit.


23 posted on 12/26/2023 6:29:19 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: SaveFerris

24 posted on 12/26/2023 6:32:39 PM PST by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
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To: Greenidgypsy

You are correct


25 posted on 12/26/2023 6:45:32 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: SeekAndFind

unexceptionable, the viewpoint that:
“natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens” (Scott v. Sandford, 1856)
In Minor v. Happersett (1875), the Supreme Court defined two classes of persons. The first class consists of children born in the United States, of U.S.-citizen parents. The second class consists of all other U.S.-born children, regardless of their parents’ citizenship. The Court used the term “natural born citizen” only in reference to members of the first class. Regarding members of the second class, the Court doubted they were even citizens, let alone natural born citizens. In the Court’s opinion, natural born citizens are “distinguished from” aliens or foreigners, suggesting that a natural born citizen is someone who is not a “foreigner” (foreign citizen) at birth [05].


26 posted on 12/26/2023 6:49:19 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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To: SeekAndFind
The only question is — WHO HAS THE STANDING TO BRING IT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT?

Whose responsibility is it to enforce presidential eligibility?

Let's say Nikki wins the GOP nomination, long shot as that may be, could an individual state secretary leave her off the ballot because this secretary doesn't believe she's eligible?

It would likely take this to happen first before SCOTUS would even look at the matter.

27 posted on 12/26/2023 6:51:31 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: cabojoe

😀😆🤣


28 posted on 12/26/2023 6:54:18 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s right. Nimratta is not eligible.


29 posted on 12/26/2023 7:00:44 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SeekAndFind

Selectively reading bits and pieces of the law is not how the law as a whole works. Haley is a natural born citizen. People on the political right need to get over using NBC arguments when they do not apply.


30 posted on 12/26/2023 7:04:44 PM PST by Widget Jr (🇺🇸 Trump 2024 🇺🇸)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only question is — WHO HAS THE STANDING TO BRING IT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT???
??
If Nikki gets the nomination every Democrat will have standing


31 posted on 12/26/2023 7:07:31 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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To: Greenidgypsy

“The Founders after establishing a country did not want a future President who may have been born here from a foreigner , to be eligible for President.”

Exactly. It’s all about where a person’s loyalty lies.


32 posted on 12/26/2023 7:10:12 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Widget Jr

RE: Haley is a natural born citizen.

I’d like to read your reasoning regarding how she qualifies.


33 posted on 12/26/2023 7:10:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SaveFerris

Happy New Year SF!


34 posted on 12/26/2023 7:19:32 PM PST by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Rocco and Gonzalo Lira)
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To: SeekAndFind
And yet nobody will be able to figure out how it happened.....or very few, that is


35 posted on 12/26/2023 7:20:36 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Natural Born has nothing to do with a “citizenship status.” If you have to ascertain a status you are not natural born, i.e. born two citizen parents within the physical jurisdiction of your country.

Now, let the people who can’t understand Supreme Court Decisions or comprehend the Federalist Papers etc have the floor.


36 posted on 12/26/2023 7:22:11 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: cabojoe

Thank you. Happy New Year!

I’m having post-Christmas nachos tonight

But not from the gas station ⛽⛽⛽


37 posted on 12/26/2023 7:23:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: AlaskaErik

She may lose, but why? Where’s your argument?


38 posted on 12/26/2023 7:23:40 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was surprised that Joe DeGenova and Victoria Toensing are pushing Haley for VP on grounds the ticket would more easily win. But they didn’t say how replacing one disloyal VP with another would improve things.


39 posted on 12/26/2023 7:24:11 PM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

We went through this with Obama, who also was not qualified. You will not get an argument. Here’s an important point though- If Haley really cared about the Constitution and rule of law, why would she run at all?


40 posted on 12/26/2023 7:27:11 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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