Via the AP: Court: No review of Obama’s eligibility to serve
The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election.
Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a “natural born citizen,” one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.
Well. What good is the Court if it can’t deal with such pressing issues? Now Obama is going to give the country away to Kenya (or Britain, or something…)!
Personally, I think that “natural born” means that one’s mother had to have birthed you via natural childbirth techniques. As such, all children whose mother’s used anesthesia are hereby disqualified as “natural born citizens”.
(Hey, it makes as much sense as any of the other theories being bandied about on this subject).
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It would certainly seem to rule out C-section delivery. I’d be mighty skeptical of chemically induced delivery as well. As a strict constructionist, I think any use of medical technology not available in 1789 should be avoided.
Reply to James Joyner
Comment by James Joyner — Monday, December 8, 2024 @ 2:11 pm
A valid addition to the theory.
Reply to Dr. Steven Taylor
Comment by Dr. Steven Taylor — Monday, December 8, 2024 @ 2:18 pm
Hey, I’m cool with that. Just makes it a lot easier for me to make it. Oh yeah, completely natural, 1789 style.
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Comment by Talmadge East — Monday, December 8, 2024 @ 3:13 pm
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Pingback by The Obligatory SCOTUS Rejects Obama Birth Certificate Challenge | Political Byline — Monday, December 8, 2024 @ 3:46 pm
Does this mean that the Presidency should be limited to those born at home utilizing a mid-wife?
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Comment by B. Minich — Monday, December 8, 2024 @ 3:54 pm
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Pingback by The Supreme Court Of The U.S. Lets We, The People Down Again: Refuses To Review “Natural Born Citizenship Status” Of Barack Obama And John McCain | THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™ — Monday, December 8, 2024 @ 9:25 pm
The Naturalization Act of 1795 really should have rendered this whole case moot in the first place.
Still, I think it would be worth updated the thing to specify in no uncertain terms whether one or both parents have to be citizens for a person born outside of US territory to be considered a natural born citizen; as it reads right now, I could go either way, and while the body of precedents is huge, it wouldn’t hurt to formalize it and put it in writing so as to prevent these kinds of things coming up in the future.
Reply to Captain D
Comment by Captain D — Monday, December 8, 2024 @ 9:29 pm
once again, you offend me.
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Comment by mbailey — Tuesday, December 9, 2024 @ 11:23 am