Marco will test whether Hillary or Elizabeth Warren will suddenly remember the ineligibility they so thoroughly proved for McCain between 2000 and 2008 in February, when McCaskill and Obama realized McCain’s ineligibility could be useful, and filed Senate Bill 2678, the “Foreign Born Children of Military Citizens Natural Born Citizen Act.” That bill, filed in February 2008, failed, so they filed the Senator John McCain Natural Born Citizen Resolution, SR 511, in April 2008.
Marco was born to alien parents, like Wong Kim Ark, whose parents were good residents of San Francisco, but not citizens. That famous case ruled, citing Minor v. Happersett as precedent, that Wong Kim was a citizen for having been born on our soil, but not a natural born citizen. Until the Supreme Court alters that interpretation, Rubio is not a natural born citizen.
But perhaps we continue to dismiss our framers and founders as stodgy nationalists living at a different time, who would have written a different set of requirements today, as Barack suggested when he was an Illinois senator, so we will continue to ignore Article II Section 1 Clause 5. Barack didn’t ignore it, Constitutional scholar that he is. He never claimed to be a natural born citizen. Ted Cruz properly informed us, through his Texas congressman friend, when asked about his eligibility. “Ted is as eligible to the presidency as Barack Obama.”
Ted was being honest, and is worth another attempt to amend Article II Section 1 Clause 5, as congressmen tried to do 8 times between 2001 and 2008, if we count the Obama/McCaskill bill, S. 2678. Conyers filed two attempts, Menedez one, Rhorabacher two, Nickles one, Hatch tried to make Schwarzenegger eligible, and Barney Frank one. Both parties wanted to loosen the natural born citizen provision, and no amendment of more than twenty five attempts has ever passed.
Our Republican leaders were complicit in an attack on Republican congressman Nathan Deal when he alone raised the eligibility issue. They consented to an IRS investigation and ethics charges rather than insist that the White House respond to Deal’s open letter simply asking for assurance requested by Deal’s Georgia constituents. No citizen has the resources to defend from an IRS attack. Deal resigned and became Governor of Georgia. All charges were dropped.
Why do you think Haley, Jindal, Rubio, and Cruz are being floated as potential rivals for Hillary? Republican leaders are more concerned with being exposed for their complicity in the Obama/McCain ineligibility cover-up than with not having an eligible candidate. Democrats won’t raise the issue if they are winning, but may if they aren’t. Just look of the dozen or so Washington Post articles, NYT, LA Times, Chicago Trib. between 2000 and 2008 if you, like most of us, didn’t pay attention when McCain’s problems with eligibility were being thoroughly vetted.
Hilary’s Pennsylvania campaign committee head, Paul Berg, provides cover for Hillary, having raised the probably phony Kenyan birth certificate issue, but Elizabeth Warren would not suffer if she were to expose any naturalized citizen trying to be president. Obama told us all he is a naturalized citizen, and never lied. The one state, Arizona, presumably possessing an Obama signature claiming natural born citizenship, was apparently a machine signature, and Nancy Pelosi’s signature was all that was necessary.
Obama told us “I am a native-born, citizen of the U.S.”. American Indians are native-born, and weren’t made citizens, because their allegiance was to their tribal governments. Obama was made a citizen because his mother is a citizen, even though born, by his own admission, a natural-born subject of the British Empire because of his father, He is a citizen by law, but, like Wong Kim Ark, not natural born.
You believed Mark Levin when he explained that the 1790 Nationality Act, making foreign-born children of citizens into natural born citizens enabled several candidates including McCain into natural born citizens? Levin knows as well as all Senators, who read the same claim in April 2008 Senate Resolution 511 written by Larry Tribe and Ted Olson. SR 511 is Obama/McCaskill/Leahy’s second attempt to fog McCain’s ineligibility. They, like Levin, know that the 1790 Nationality Act was entirely rescinded in 1795 by George Washington, and never again did Congress address natural born citizenship. (A guess is that Landmark Legal depends upon Republican clients, and Mark, understandably, knows he couldn’t withstand the certain retribution from more wealthy and powerful interests. He had two children in college, and is not suicidal).
“But why, at this point, does it matter?”, to quote our next Democrat presidential candidate. Because our framers had every reason to try to protect us from foreign influence affecting the Chief Executive and Commander of our Military. It is from natural law that our framers and founders built a nation of laws, independent of a Monarch. It is a precept of natural law that a child inherits citizenship, allegiance to his society, from his parents, and from investment in the land of his birth. They wrote that the president must have been born to citizen parents, as Congressman John Bingham, author of the 14th Amendment explained, “of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty.” We might chose to amend that provision, but thus far representatives are depending upon the ignorance of our citizenry. We are not currently a constitutional republic. We are the popular democracy promoted by George Soros, among many who understand and use the power of propaganda and control our media with great skill.
Citizenship aside, I think just about any Republican could easily beat Hillary. But, and this is a crucial but, we must reverse the order of the ticket. That is, the top of the ticket must be from the populist/Tea Party wing of the GOP, and the running mate from the establishment country club wing. Think Reagan-Bush, not Bush-Reagan. That’s the only way you’ll get grass-roots turnout.
Minor vs. Happersett made no such declaration. It is a complete falsehood to state that it did - indeed, the court made it very clear the matter of being natural born was not before it - they made no such ruling. And indeed, multiple other rulings have been made by the Court to establishment natural born citizenship since then.