The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for president according to the Constitution.
The group also challenged the right of Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley to appear on Republican primary ballots.
The Republican group’s platform and policy document noted that “The Constitutional qualifications of Presidential eligibility” states that “No person except a natural born Citizen, shall be eligible, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”
The same document included former President Donald Trump’s running mate Ohio Senator JD Vance on a list of preferred candidates for vice president.
The group, which adopted the document during their last national convention held between October 13 and 15 last year, goes on to argue in the document that a natural-born citizen has to be born in the US to parents who are citizens when the child is born, pointing to the thinking of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
thanks for the really well considered reply. gotta admit, I cant disagree with anything you wrote.
all damn valid points, particularly the failure of neo-liberalism to bring sustained improvement to the vast majority of people. something as soulless as this was always destined for a confrontation with reality.
I know its the thing to claim everything is “fash” again, but its gotten easier to recognize the evolution from reagan through biden of us imperialism and how tightly it couples in places with historically extreme right ideations.
velvet covered fascism is still fascism when it comes home to roost - and boy, howdy are we getting a nice little brush up against it.