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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=1157621
For what little it is worth, I think that if the courts were to ever prevent John McCain from being sworn in as President based on this hyper-technicality, it would be horrible. Which does not stop the question from being interesting. But it represents one of those areas where ivory-tower academic law needs to differ from the real world.
Eight years after Bush v. Gore, you simply cannot have the Supreme Court taking center stage in another presidental election.
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There's already been a unanimous Senate resolution that he's a natural-born citizen, and the Constitution gives Congress the right to "establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization." It won't be an issue. No "ivory-tower academic law" thinks that McCain doesn't qualify under the constitution.