“Actually, yes, Arnold can run for president. There are no legal procedures in place at the state or federal level to require that a presidential candidate prove his/her eligibility.”
Hmmmm. Dunno about that. I was telling usmcobra that I saw an Obama filing for president that was posted on FR. It clearly had a statement that Obama signed attesting to his eligibility for President.
I would think it would be easy for someone to sue to throw Arnold off the ballot on the basis that his statement is false. OTOH, it requires someone to stand up and do that.
One would think so. However, there were two such cases in the 2008 presidential election and both cases were unsuccessful in forcing the Secretary of State to take any action. I believe the state supreme courts ruled that they lacked subject matter jurisdiction. The SCOTUS denied cert. in both cases without comment. Other eligibility cases have been denied lack of standing in the lower courts and cert. denied without comment by SCOTUS.
Leo Donofrio sued the NJ Secretary of State to prevent Obama, McCain, and a third candidate from being included on the 2008 presidential ballot as he believed none of them was a natural-born citizen.
Cort Wrotnowski did the same in Connecticut.