{"id":15772,"date":"2020-08-14T20:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T01:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=15772"},"modified":"2020-08-14T20:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T01:15:27","slug":"some-questions-for-kamala-harris-about-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/some-questions-for-kamala-harris-about-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kamala-harris-ineligible-not-a-natural-born-citizen-vice-president-birther-lucas-daniel-smith.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kamala-harris-ineligible-not-a-natural-born-citizen-vice-president-birther-lucas-daniel-smith.png 831w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kamala-harris-ineligible-not-a-natural-born-citizen-vice-president-birther-lucas-daniel-smith-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kamala-harris-ineligible-not-a-natural-born-citizen-vice-president-birther-lucas-daniel-smith-768x684.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Newsweek<\/strong><br>by John C. Eastman , Professor of law, Chapman University and senior fellow, Claremont Institute<br>August 12, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The fact that Senator Kamala Harris has just been named the vice presidential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has some questioning her eligibility for the position. The 12th Amendment provides that &#8220;no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.&#8221; And Article II of the Constitution specifies that &#8220;[n]o person except a natural born citizen\u2026shall be eligible to the office of President.&#8221; Her father was (and is) a Jamaican national, her mother was from India, and neither was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of Harris&#8217; birth in 1964. That, according to these commentators, makes her not a &#8220;natural born citizen&#8221;\u2014and therefore ineligible for the office of the president and, hence, ineligible for the office of the vice president.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweekby John C. Eastman , Professor of law, Chapman University and senior fellow, Claremont InstituteAugust 12, 2020 Excerpt: The fact that Senator Kamala Harris has just been named the vice presidential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/some-questions-for-kamala-harris-about-eligibility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4743,4754,4805,12,4758],"tags":[4806,4807,615],"class_list":["post-15772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenyabornobama","category-kenyanbornobama","category-kamala-harris-ineligible-not-a-natural-born-citizen","category-lucas-daniel-smith","category-obama-birther-2020","tag-kamala-harris-birther","tag-kamala-harris-eligibility","tag-natural-born-citizen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15775,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions\/15775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}