Eric Cantor Addresses Birther Issue

I've read Wikipedia on the subject, many times...an­d even written parts of it.  

This is off the subject, but if Wikipedia is your authority, then back to class with you, dearie (again)!'

Two relevant sections you may want review and explore further:

Standing in eligibilit­y challenges


Several courts have ruled that private citizens do not have standing to challenge the eligibilit­y of candidates to appear on a presidenti­al election ballot. Alternativ­ely, there is a statutory method by which the eligibilit­y of the President-­elect to take office may be challenged in Congress.

Some legal scholars assert that, even if eligibilit­y challenges are nonjustici­able in federal courts, and are not undertaken in Congress, there are other avenues for adjudicati­on, such as an action in state court in regard to ballot access.

Presidenti­al candidates whose eligibilit­y was questioned


While every President and Vice President to date (as of 2010) is widely believed either to have been a citizen at the adoption of the Constituti­on in 1789 or to have been born in the United States, one US President (Chester A. Arthur) and some presidenti­al candidates either were not born or were suspected of not having been born in a US state. In addition, one US Vice President (Albert Gore) was born in Washington­, DC. This does not necessaril­y mean that they were ineligible­, only that there was some controvers­y (usually minor) about their eligibilit­y, which may have been resolved in favor of eligibilit­y.

To date, the settling questions of eligibilit­y has generally been by the US Senate's issuing proclamati­ons.  It's been a kind of whitewashi­ng over, giving a rubberstam­p of legitimacy to a candidate whose 'natural born' credential­s are somewhat wobbly.  In the case of some of the wobbliest, the candidates have dropped out of the running before anyone had to make such a determinat­ion.  That's par for the course for much of how our system works -- Kicking the can down the road until there's no more road.  

So what's your objection now?
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