Posted on 06/23/2012 6:13:41 AM PDT by urtax$@work
The number of years as a citizen makes sense in that an NBC would be at least 35 years a citizen to be eligible for president, while a citizen of the United States would only be a citizen following naturalization (if not an NBC themselves). But, of course, the president has a residency requirement to make up for the lack of requirement for how many years he or she has been a citizen. What may be implied is that the president cannot have ever been a citizen of another country. As Vattel says, a natural citizen is a person who inherits the same citizenship as his father by tacit consent. Obama would have had to reject Kenyan and Indonesian citizenship in order to truly be a natural-born citizen.
I foresee a state going rogue, so to speak, especially in light of Obama ignoring the SCOTUS today in the AZ case.
Suppose state ‘X’ unilaterally passes a law decreeing that any anchor baby born within its borders is not a U.S. citizen? Force the Feds to go after them. Play the game the way Obama does.
I am very confident that if Rubio or Jindal is elected that no court will even come close to removing them just as Obama still sits in the White House. While this legal theory is currently popular around here I don’t see it ever being adopted. I predict that when his supreme royal Obamic crapness is removed from office no one will care anymore.
I would rather discuss reasons as to why either man should perhaps not be VP. In Rub’s case this seemingly ill-advised immigration bill is exhibit A.
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