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To: browardchad
No...
At least you admit the obvious.
...if Obama, Jr. was born on U.S. soil, he is a natural-born U.S. Citizen, and satisfies that qualification for POTUS, unless his parents were here in an official diplomatic role for a foreign country or as members of an occupying force.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. My opinion is that you've got a poor understanding of what a natural born citizen is.

Your first cite...TUAN ANH NGUYEN and JOSEPH BOULAIS, PETITIONERS v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE word for word!
Poor you...apples and oranges.
Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents a question not resolved by a majority of the Court in a case before us three Terms ago. See Miller v. Albright, 523 U.S. 420 (1998). Title 8 U.S.C. § 1409 (Children born out of wedlock) governs the acquisition of United States citizenship by persons born to one United States citizen parent and one noncitizen parent when the parents are unmarried and the child is born outside of the United States or its possessions.
Snip...Boulais and Nguyen’s mother were not married.

Are you saying that Anne Dunham was never married?

Next post, next case.

157 posted on 02/15/2010 3:43:15 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
My opinion is that you've got a poor understanding of what a natural born citizen is.

Yes, but the XII Amendment, read together with the Electoral Vote Counting Act of 1877 does not say, "The President of the Senate, prior to signing the certification, shall contact philman_36 and, based upon philman_36's opinion, shall certify the vote, or not".

It doesn't say that at all, does it?

159 posted on 02/15/2010 3:50:21 PM PST by Jim Noble (Hu's the communist?)
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To: philman_36
Both cases were argued on the merits of petitioners’ equal protection claims. (Not at issue here.)

Neither of the plaintiffs were granted citizenship.

Scalia, and Thomas, chose to re-iterate, and emphasize, the Court's stance on non-interference with the delegated powers of Congress to define citizenship.

160 posted on 02/15/2010 3:51:04 PM PST by browardchad ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
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