Posted on 02/14/2010 11:50:10 AM PST by Man50D
Re: Both of the Child’s Parents Be U.S. Citizens At the Time of Birth
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) agrees.
On April 10, 2008, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a “natural born” Citizen, as specified in the Constitution and eligible to run for president.
It was during the bill’s hearing that Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement:
“Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” said Leahy. “I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate.”
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.
“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied.
“That is mine, too,” said Leahy.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_exhibits/LeahyResolution.mht
Barack Obama signed the resolution.
So was the Senate resolution about McCain essentially worthless?
Yes. The Senate reolution has no standing in the law.
If it did, it would only reaffirm McCain’s ineligibility as a “statutory” citizen, under Title 8, US Code 1401.
The real question is, why was a bunch of partisan, progressive Democratic senators trying to help their Republican opponent in the middle of a presidential campaign?
What kind of a deal was made?
You asked “So was the Senate resolution about McCain essentially worthless?”
Read the entire article
http://nobarack08.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/senate-resolution-511-and-what-it-really-means/
As I refered to SR 511. SR511 is a non-binding, non-lawful understanding, that can not be held as a LAW. Being such, a non-binding resolution is a written motion adopted by a deliberative body that cannot progress into a law. The substance of the resolution can be anything that can normally be proposed as a motion.This type of resolution is often used to express the body’s approval or disapproval of something which they cannot otherwise vote on, due to the matter being handled by another jurisdiction, or being protected by a constitution.
Man, I never thought that would stick. lol...
AFTER-birther, it has sort of caught on hasn’t it? I love it, I also like to post early on a birther thread IBTAT, In Before the AFTER-birther Trolls.
Yea, I've noticed that. Too funny.
Obama’s attorneys will not be able to muster a defense without a direct attack on the very U.S. Constitution and the rights protected by it which are the basis of the case.
Kerchner case will test Third Circuit court’s adherence to the Constitution thread
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