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Authorities wade in on Cruz eligibility

I am reminded of 2008 and the issue of John McCain’s eligibility. The unanimous resolution of the Senate, the memorandum of Laurence Tribe and Theodore Olson, and most of the writers in a Michigan Law Review publication came out in … Continue reading

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Ted Cruz defends his eligibility to be president

Confronts head on claims he’s not a natural born citizen The New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission will consider arguments today from petitioners seeking to prevent Cruz from appearing on the state’s Republican Primary Ballot.1 Two petitioners, Carmon Elliott and Chris … Continue reading

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Birther backfire

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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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