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Yes, Kamala Harris Is Eligible to Be Vice President
I suggest our Trumpers look up settled US case law on who is considered a "natural born citizen".
Ms. Harris checks all the Constitutional boxes regarding US citizenship and running for Vice President.
8/13/20
Some people have argued that Kamala Harris is ineligible to be vice president of the United States. The Constitution requires presidents and vice presidents to be "natural-born citizens"; Harris was born in the U.S., but her parents (who had come to the U.S. to study) weren't U.S. citizens at the time. Does "natural-born citizen" include Harris, and others like her? The 14th Amendment does have a narrow exception for people who were not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the U.S. at birth, but the Court made clear that this was a narrow exception for "children of members of the Indian tribes," who were at the time not citizens, "children born of alien enemies in hostile occupation" and "children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign State." Children born to non-citizens living here are certainly subject to the jurisdiction of American courts—no one thinks, for instance, that they are immune from criminal prosecutions or civil lawsuits. They are likewise "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States for citizenship purposes. But the Constitution itself was to a limited degree skeptical of immigration, in limiting the presidency and vice presidency to "natural-born citizens" and excluding naturalized ones. The Framers were concerned that foreigners who immigrated into the U.S. might have enough allegiance to their former countries that they should not be trusted with the highest office in the land.
But the Framers embodied this policy in a clear set of qualifications: The president must be "a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution"; must have "been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States" (another way of screening out people who might be too foreign); and must "have attained to the Age of thirty five Years." Someone who is, say, married to a foreign citizen or has children with foreign citizenship, or is even related by blood to a foreign royal house (a matter that may have been of some concern when the U.S. was still young and relatively weak), was not disqualified. It was up to the political process to decide whether to elect such a person—it was not a matter of constitutional disqualification. The same is true for people born in the U.S. whose parents were foreign citizens. They were "natural-born subjects" under English law, and thus "natural-born citizens" to the Framers. Kamala Harris easily fits within that category.
I suggest our Trumpers look up settled US case law on who is considered a "natural born citizen".
Ms. Harris checks all the Constitutional boxes regarding US citizenship and running for Vice President.