Maybe Obama, Cruz, Rubio, and Jindal just aren't "white" enough for him.
Posted on 01/05/2016 5:30:33 PM PST by Theoria
A Washington man who tried and failed to keep President Barack Obama's name off the 2012 Vermont ballot, claiming Obama is not a "natural-born citizen" is now trying to keep three Republican candidates off the ballot for the same reason.
In early December, H. Brooke Paige filed a lawsuit in Washington County civil court in Montpelier claiming Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal aren't qualified to be president.
The lawsuit names the state, Attorney General Bill Sorrell and Secretary of State Jim Condos as defendants. Paige said the three candidates had until the close of business Thursday to answer his lawsuit and failed to do so. He said he plans to file a motion for default judgment Monday.
In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Paige's case against Obama. The Vermont Supreme Court had ruled that Paige's case was moot as Obama had already been elected by the time they heard the case and Paige appealed that decision unsuccessfully to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In order to keep that from happening this time, Paige said Thursday he is filing this case much sooner. Paige said he filed the case against Obama about four months before the election in 2012. This time he is filing nearly a year before the November election.
Paige, who maintains he is running for president as a Republican and for Vermont governor and attorney general as a Democrat, said he's forcing this issue because he feels the U.S. Constitution isn't being respected.
He said the Constitution requires presidential candidates to be 35 years old, have lived in the U.S. for the past 14 years and be a natural-born citizen.
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What if they are a dual citizen at the time of birth ?
Pinging Vermonter for an explanation.
Bfl
Maybe Obama, Cruz, Rubio, and Jindal just aren't "white" enough for him.
I'm not a lawyer but I do have an opinion about this. My daughter was born in England while I was stationed there in the 1970s. The only thing that happened for her to be a citizen was to be born. She has a birth certificate document from the State Department called a "Certificate of Birth Abroad". She also has a British birth certificate from Suffolk County, England, which she could use to get a British passport though she has declined.
Cruz may be a dual citizen as well and probably has a "Certificate of Birth Abroad" document.
Both my daughter and Ted Cruz are "natural born citizens" of the United States in my opinion.
The guy in New Hampshire may force the Supreme Court to clarify the matter.
He’s right. For What it’s Worth.
Nope.
Remember that “American journalist” in jail in Iran?
He had dual citizenship US/Iran. Iran was perfectly within their rights to treat him as any other Iranian would be treated...because he is Iranian.
So too could your daughter be treated as a British Subject...and that is within the rights of the UK to do so...because she is also a British Subject.
A law is required to make her a US Citizen. Natural Born Citizens require NO LAW to be citizens, they are US citizens by nature.
No other nation can make a claim upon them. Natural Born Citizens are born in the US of US citizens. No law is required to make them citizens BECAUSE they are citizens, by Natural Law.
Racist drivel.
I really think that his case needs to be adjudged by a Federal Court. I support Cruz, and I believe that he is eligible, but the case needs to be considered. But then, so does obama’s, so what does it matter. Apparently any half-breed foreigner can be President.
it’s impossible to be a natural born citizen of more then one country.
if the person in question had multiple citizenships at birth... then it’s not a natural born citizen
Nope. She IS a citizen and all she had to do was to be born.
So too could your daughter be treated as a British Subject
Of course the British would treat her as a British subject if she went back there, just as she's treated as an American citizen here.
Our problem is not foreigners becoming president. Our problem is bought people becoming president via the votes of other bought people.People get all wrapped around the axle agonizing over whether a "quid pro quo" can be demonstrated linking money paid to Bill or donated to the Clinton Foundation, on the one hand, and actions by Hillary as Secretary of State on the other. But the Constitution is perfectly clear
that acceptance of payments or gifts from a foreign government is illegitimate unless authorized by Congress. And "of any kind whatever" certainly indicates that laundering the emoluments through a husband or the gifts through a foundation (be it never so legitimately charitable) does not make them legitimate.
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
We are talking about gigibuck class corruption in this case.
Both my son were born in Germany in the American hospital (just seven years apart) while my husband was stationed there. I was still a German citizen at the time. My husband registered both with the American Consulate in Munich which issued them their American Birth Certificate
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