Despite what birthers say, my experience is that those of us who believe that Barack Obama is an eligible President don’t put much effort into supporting that hypothesis. We it take for granted. What gets folks like me energized is a false or suspect statement of fact and perhaps birthers would be better off letting [...]
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Charting citizenship
Birthers like to present charts to explain how they see citizenship. Here’s a chart that explains how the courts see citizenship: The naturalized citizen has as much right as the natural born citizen to exercise the cherished freedoms of speech, press and religion… Baumgartner v. United States (1944) However, the rights of someone who is [...]
John McCain – natural born citizen
This is the second in a new series of articles examining the citizenship of American presidents and presidential candidates. In the first I demonstrated that our first president, George Washington, was a natural born citizen. Here we look at John McCain, 2008 Republican candidate for president. John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone [...]
Lawsuits
Lawsuits Lawsuit Links Obama Conspiracy Theories Docket Project Obama Conspiracy Theories State Ballot Challenges Save Our Rights: Lawsuit Wiki Rule 11 – Ethical conduct when filing federal lawsuits Obama Lawsuit tracking page Birther scorecard (probably the most complete and accurate list of the birther lawsuits). Donofrio Amicus brief in Farrar v. Obama Recent lawsuits defining [...]
Is the natural born citizen argument over?
Somehow, with the dismissal of Kerchner v. Obama and the retirement of Leo Donofrio (yet again), it rather feels like the debate over the attempts to redefine “natural born citizen” have fallen off the radar, leaving Obama Conspiracy fans with little more than the Taitz/Smith/Lincoln soap 0pera for entertainment. However, before closing the box and [...]
Searching for “natural born citizen”
Not many folks have spent more time than I searching the Internet and WestLaw for keywords including “natural born citizen”. You can see the results of such activity on pages like my The Great Mother of All Natural Born Citizen Quotation Pages and Tes’s SCOTUS & “Natural Born Citizen” – A Compendium. While that’s useful, [...]
