[OneWingedShark]

>The defendant is requiring the commander-in-chief, an elected official, not a military officer, to prove his Constitutional rights.

What Constitutional Right is there to be President?
How can the Commander-in-Chief *NOT* be considered a military officer when it is by his order that the military goes somewhere or does something?
Authority is inseparable from accountability [responsibility, if you will] and the way that people excuse the President from being accountable [”because he’s a civilian”] is inexcusable.

[Sudetenland]

Because he is defined as a civilian Commander in Chief. He is, by definition a civilian, not a member of the military.

As for the Constitutional right to be President, I would guess that where it says that anyone who is a natural born citizen of the United States and has attained the age of 35 is eligible to hold the office.

He is the elected President of the United States, until and unless he has been proven to be otherwise ineligible. Since Congress has already ruled on is eligiblity, the point is moot.

[thecodont]

What Constitutional Right is there to be President?

There is no Constitutional right to be President. There never has been.

I think the general public has gotten fuzzy-minded on just what our "rights" are and are confusing "Constitutional" rights with "civil" rights. CONUS Amendments 1-10 say absolutely nothing about one's right to be POTUS. Some "legal thinkers" (who know what a natural born citizen really is and don't like it one bit as far as its being an Article II requirement) think that the NBC provision is "unfair" and "discriminatory" and therefore infringes on people's civil rights.