Posted on 01/09/2024 3:41:30 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
CNN — It was only a matter of time before former President Donald Trump went birther on Nikki Haley.
After all, the former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador is a pioneering candidate, the daughter of immigrants from India, and she’s rising in the polls. It’s not only concern about his electoral prospects that’s driving him; Trump’s massive yet fragile ego also feels threatened. So he reached for the most reflexive slur he could find via the far-right news site Gateway Pundit, reposting on Truth Social the false claim that Haley is not constitutionally eligible to be president because her parents were not US citizens when she was born in South Carolina. The Gateway Pundit post cited a legal analysis piece on the American Greatness site.
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birther?
Didn’t he go all constitution?
Here’s the American Greatness article that Trump referenced:
The Constitution Absolutely Prohibits Nikki Haley From Being President Or Vice President
The question of presidential eligibility under the Constitution has been a hot button one, especially in recent years with the controversial campaigns of John McCain, Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, and most recently, Kamala Harris. The controversy arises from the text of the Constitution itself. Article II, Section 1, stipulates that “No person except a natural born citizen or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.” The core issue centers on the meaning of the phrase “natural born citizen.” The Constitution explicitly lays out three requirements to run for president: (i) be at least 35 years old; (ii) have been a resident of the United States for at least 14 years; and (iii) be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
The question of natural born citizenship is crystal clear, though it often gets confused with the more controversial debate surrounding birthright citizenship. From the outset, it should be stressed that the two are entirely different constitutional issues. The question of natural-born citizenship as an eligibility requirement for president is well settled, whereas the issue of birthright citizenship is still up in the air.
There is a reason the Founding Fathers attached the requirement of being a “natural born citizen” to the President (and, with the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, the Vice President) only and no other federal offices. The idea was to elevate the threshold for the highest elected political office of the land; notably, that language is absent in Article I, which stipulates that lawmakers running for the House or Senate need only be “citizens” to qualify. The early debates surrounding the passage of the Constitution add support for the view that the Framers wanted to exclude “the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government,” as John Jay wrote to George Washington in July of 1787.
A central concern for the architects of the nascent American republic was that only the most qualified statesmen be eligible for the country’s highest office. In his Commentaries, Joseph Story elaborated that “[i]t is indispensable… that the president should be a natural born citizen of the United States… [T]he general propriety of the exclusion of foreigners, in common cases, will scarcely be doubted by any sound statesman.” Joseph Story, who enjoyed over a thirty-year reign as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, famously elaborated the principles of the republicanism of Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall well into the mid-nineteenth century. His Commentaries specifically distinguished between natural born and naturalized citizens, the latter of whom were ineligible to run for president, despite qualifying for the privileges of citizenship. This view is supported by the best legal commentary of the day, Emmerich de Vattel’s Law of Nature and of Nations, a contemporaneous authority for the Founding Fathers on questions of citizenship. de Vattel’s work states that “[t]he natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.” The question of natural born citizenship is ergo fundamentally distinct from the ongoing issue of birthright citizenship, raised in the Fourteenth Amendment, which confers citizenship to “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States.” The key word here is citizenship, not eligibility for the presidential office, which, as noted earlier, demands a much higher threshold for qualification.
Read more in the link.
Let her go run for president of India then.
barky is Exhibit A demonstrating EXACTLY WHY the founding fathers included the Natural-Born clause.
And, just as Franklin feared, we would eventually ignore the clause thereby failing to “keep the republic”.
OMG...I tortured myself by reading that article.
It’s just like the trolls posting here...the don’t realize how completely unhinged they are with what they say.
I LOVE that Trump can so easily trigger these asshats.
Kamala Kancel Website (downloadable PDF available via link)
Kamala Kancel Twitter Site (twitter login required to view)
Additional note: Kamala Harris is majority CAUCASIAN (53% to 56%, per the referenced documents), so it is not "racist" to question her eligibility to hold her present office.
“Trump’s massive yet fragile ego also feels threatened.”
THIS is CNN.
This passes as a NEWS story?
“It was only a matter of time before former President Donald Trump went birther on Nikki Haley.”
The writers of the Constitution went birther first, as in natural born citizen.
Trump’s private polling must be showing a HUGE jump for Nikki. Otherwise, there is no reason for him to acknowledge her. Look for Trump to enter a GOP debate soon.
What, the Left won’t adhere to the Constitution?
Wait, I thought they were trying to save the Democracy!
LMAO
CNN slobbering all over thier fellow globalist.
It’s a terrific test case. I wish the USSC would take it (they won’t).
If they did, they would put an end to birther claims once and for all.
Guess she’s out as VP. Or will he forget about this by July?
Ask Trump if he believes if four out of his five children are equally ineligible.
*giggle*.
Sure thing, Mr. Avlon, you gutless, factless hack!
I’m sure he’d agree.
“There is a reason the Founding Fathers attached the requirement of being a “natural born citizen” to the President (and, with the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, the Vice President) only and no other federal offices.”
The natural born citizenship clause became far more important than simply allowing foreigners into the office of the Presidency when the Presidency also became the Commander-in-Chief of all the nation’s armed forces. If it wasn’t for this fact, simply being a 14A §1 birthright citizen would have sufficed. That is to say, a citizen at birth with no need to naturalize.
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