Is Rubio Constitutionally Qualified? Who Decides?

Jacquerie

[Jacquerie]

NBC Ping!

[MNJohnnie]

Rubio has all ready said he will not run as VP so why waste the effort?

[Political Junkie Too]

The People can ultimately decide by not voting for him, regardless of what SCOTUS does.

The same would be true for Obama.

-PJ

[federal__reserve]

It is already decided! It is called PRECEDENCE! Barry's father was never a US citizen, and his mother was underage when Barry was born in Hawaii with a fake birth certificate.

Every court, including SCOTUS will rule that Rubio is eligible because ruling against that will null and void every law passed with Zero's signature. They will never go there.

[Cicero]

Natural Born was traditionally taken to mean born in this country to parents who were both citizens.

So Obama does not qualify even if he was born in Hawaii, which is extremely unlikely. Because his father was Kenyan or British at the time of his birth. Assuming that his father actually WAS Obama, or that Obama and Dunham were legally married, both of which are uncertain too.

Rubio doesn’t qualify either.

Just because the Democrats cheated, lied, and committed felonies to put Obama into office illegally does not mean that the Republicans should imitate them. We have too many Rinos doing that already.

[mlo]

"Natural Born was traditionally taken to mean born in this country to parents who were both citizens."

No it wasn't.

[chris37]

I decide.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[The Great RJ]

If Rubio is not qualified to be POTUS, then Obama certainly is not as his Father was not a US citizen.

[Jacquerie]

I know there is an unofficial race to be among the first posters and make title based comments.

The point of my brilliant, yet humble analysis is that Scotus and precedent have nothing to do with the election of our President, no matter where he was born, or to whom.

[Bryanw92]

>>Natural Born was traditionally taken to mean born in this country to parents who were both citizens.

According to the “Natural Born” Experts at WND, I’m not “Natural born” because my parents were minors when I was born. I hate Obama and everything he stands for, but coming up with all these new restrictions to the definition of “Natural born” is just a distraction.

[federal__reserve]

Can you refer me to an official document or judicial decision which stipulates that a natural born citizen is whose both parents are US citizens?

If there is such a document present, why is then Obama allowed to operate as President? His father was never a US citizen. He was here on a student visa.

[fantom]

Exactly. Besides , Rubio was born in Miami. He like anyone else born in this country is a citizen. This is no mystery .

[federal__reserve]

In “practical terms” any person born on US soil will never be dis-qualified in future to run for president/vice president. That precedent has been set with Obama signing all the bills passed into laws.

No official group will ever go there because it will null and void every law signed into law by Obama. Never happen in a million years. You can take that to the bank.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Natural Born was traditionally taken to mean born in this country to parents who were both citizens.”

“No it wasn’t.”

Yes it was. If you read the Federalist Papers you will see the intent of the framers as to Natural Born. 4 SCOTUS cases have already defined Natural Born as born in the US of two US citizen parents.

Barack Obama was allowed to slip through the crack and you see how thats turned out.

[Jacquerie]

I must have missed that Federalist. Which one?

As I said in my post, that is not what the Framers said at the Constitutional Convention.

[little jeremiah]

You sound awfully jolly about the demise of our Constitutional Republic.

....noob.....

just sayin’

[xzins]

By current interpretation of the law, yes, he is qualified.

By a 1790 interpretation of the naturalization act of 1790, he probably would also be qualified.

[Seizethecarp]

“Can you refer me to an official document or judicial decision which stipulates that a natural born citizen is whose both parents are US citizens?”

That would be Minor v. Happersett, the citation to which has been recently discovered to have been expunged from Justia.com by Leo Donofrio...possibly illegally in June 2008 in time to prevent proper vetting of Obama.

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/look-who-cited-to-justia-for-supreme-court-holding/

If Obama did not have a serious concern that the Minor case would render him ineligible, why would operatives take the dangerous step of bothering to suppress citation to the case and all of the cases that cite Minor...unless, of course, they thought the could get away with it at least until after the election.