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To: RideForever
There are SCOTUS decisions about “natural born” citizens.

Apparently that is not true, otherwise we would not have had 8 years of Obama Birther Conspiracy Threads ... According to these guys, Obama is AOK, mother is a citizen and father had residency at some time prior to birth - regardless of his actual POB - so the whole Birth Certificate issue is moot. AND - any court could have, at any time, simply cited what you said and the controversy would be over.

Instead, they refused to make any decision at all, citing standing or any other reason to NOT make a decision.

Personally, I tend to think that the father needs to be a citizen and the birth must occur in such a manner that the US has jurisdiction over the child - meaning ambassadors and our military overseas - are natural born. But that is just my opinion.

As I mentioned in my post, there are reasonable arguments on both sides of the issue and a ruling from the court would be welcome here. They are more than willing to stick their nose where it does NOT belong, so I am really puzzled that they utterly refuse to get involved here.

45 posted on 02/07/2016 8:44:30 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. said “A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized....”


55 posted on 02/07/2016 9:39:18 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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