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...take issue with the peculiar legal limbo in which naturalized immigrants find themselves. As a naturalized American citizen, I am bothered by clauses in our Constitution which preclude foreign-born citizens from running for president. It occurs to me that this precondition begs a seemingly self-evident, if seldom-posed question...
Theoretically, one might even argue that the citizens of the territories which later became states in the Union were born in an earlier "Campobelo." These citizens failed the Article I, Section 8 eligibility test on two grounds: 1) they were not "natural born citizens" in the strict sense and 2) they were not "Citizen[s] of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution." Yet these "naturalized" Americans citizens were not denied the right to run for President...
Harvard's own Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law Paul C. Weiler reveals the injustice of the status quo through another qualification conundrum: Under current law, a child born in a foreign country who immigrated to the U.S. with parents soon after birth and then became a U.S. citizen could not run for President...
...story of Roger Tamraz, a U.S. citizen of Lebanese descent born in Cairo, as told in the Wall Street Journal last week, suggests just how far Democratic officials were willing to go to hide a quid and deliver a quo. Tamraz wanted to build his billion-dollar oil pipeline through the warring nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. He sought U.S. blessing for the project to help secure financing, and with the aid of some State Department officials, arranged a meeting in June 1995 with NSC Central Asia specialist Sheila Heslin. She was not impressed with his pitch and didn...
...Clinton administration, which until now had been successful in lower court decisions seeking a "one-way" interpretation of the law, in which only environmentalists could use the act to sue for greater protection of wildlife. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the court opinion that the Endangered Species Act's citizen-suit provision should allow people to sue the government for overprotection as well. In the 1992 case before the court, cattle ranchers and farmers in Oregon had sued to recover some $75 million in damages after the government cut off water to farms and ranches during a drought to help...