Tammy Duckworth

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Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Except that's a lie. Taylor, Kemp, Yovanovitch, Vindman and others implicated Trump.

Taylor, Kemp, and Yovanovitch were aware of the call, specifically, Ukraine asking questions about it. They didn't say Trump did anything illegal but it did make a lot of headaches for for the State Department.

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Got your fingers crossed, eh? L. Tammy Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand, the daughter of Franklin Duckworth and Lamai Sompornpairin. Under long standing US law, she is a natural-born citizen because her father is American.

She has birthright citizenship, not natural-born citizenship. Birthright citizenship simply means you're the daughter or son of an American citizen and filed the appropriate paperwork with the US government. Natural-born, on the other hand, could mean a lot of things but it's a question SCOTUS has yet to answer. It could mean royalty or it could mean born on sovereign US soil. I tend to think the former is most probable given the context in which Constitution was written. UK could have easily endeavored to send a prince or princess here to win the Presidency effectively giving the country back to the Crown. If that is the case, Cruz, McCain, Obama, and Duckworth are/were elgible because at least one of their parents, each, are US citizens. Schwarzenegger is not because his parents weren't US citizens. This is why he never tried to run: there's no interpretation in his favor.

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Thanks Captain Obvious but it still doesn't answer the question about the Vice-President being the Vice-president.

12th amendment, last sentence:
https://constitution.congress.gov/co.../amendment-12/

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Ike Bana, didja' notice not a peep outta the Repubes when Ted "Rafael" Cruz was running for prez?

I was glad Cruz lost the primary because he would have been challenged by Democrats on his eligibility to hold the office.




Tammy Duckworth is not going to be Biden's VP. Transition is going to be hard enough without triggering VP eligibility lawsuits and potentially having a VP vacancy. Picking her guarantees that legal battle.