There was no law (no legal requirement) that a candidate had to show his birth certificate. It’s a good idea, but it’s never been a law.
What a candidate must do is swear to it that he meets the three conditions of the US Constitution, in order to run for the Office of President of the United States. The states themselves usually require this “swearing” (a legal document, by the way) that a candidate is qualified per the three requirements of the US Constitution. That’s what’s been required in the past.
And Obama and the Democrat Party both swore to that effect (again, a legal document).
SO ... if there is a law that is made that REQUIRES a candidate to show a birth certificate (certified by the state that he was born in) - then all the better.
Someone better get to work on that.
Obama aside, I hope Congress addresses this.
On second thought, when it says, "No person, etc" in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, isn't that "law enough," since the Constitution is the supreme law of the land? Understand, I'm not an attorney, but to my naive eye, doesn't "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;" cover it? Like I said, I just assumed someone vetted this. My duh. .
Someone with standing could bring a court case. But as we saw in ‘08, they maust have standing. That would either be a State AG or the GOP nominee. I doubt we will get either.
Of course Ol’ Mittens could just say “Its time for us to put all of this behind us. Produce it already!” We know that will never happen....