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Your right, the Indiana court isn't even their Supreme court that rendered that decision. Even worse of a case to cite for Constitutional eligibility concerns.

Andrew Jackson, born in 1767, was a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. He was not an NBC. However, he was grandfathered in. Are you saying Obama was a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution? Otherwise, why would you mention Jackson?

There is no case pending on the US Supreme Court's docket that pertains to whether a president must have two native born parents in order to qualify as eligible." True. Not at this moment there isn't.

Your right, the Indiana court isn’t even their Supreme court that rendered that decision. Even worse of a case to cite for Constitutional eligibility concerns.
Andrew Jackson, born in 1767, was a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. He was not an NBC. However, he was grandfathered in. Are you saying Obama was a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution? Otherwise, why would you mention Jackson?

There is no case pending on the US Supreme Court’s docket that pertains to whether a president must have two native born parents in order to qualify as eligible.” True. Not at this moment there isn’t.

You were discussing a president’s PARENTS needing to be born as citizens not the person elected as president. I mentioned Jackson because his parents were not born as citizens. Neither were one parent of Presidents Jefferson (1801-1809), whose mother was born in England, James Buchanan (1857-1861) and Chester Arthur (1881-1885), both of whom had Irish fathers; Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) and Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), whose mothers were born respectively in England and Canada.

The US Supreme Court’s docket is already set with the cases they will hear for 2010. Maybe in 2011 there will be an Obama eligibility suit that reaches the high court, who knows?