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      Kamala Harris Is Constitutionally Eligible To Become US President

      Kamala Harris was born in the United States, making her constitutionally eligible to be both vice president and president.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  12 Aug 2020 9:10 PM IST
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      Kamala Harris Is Constitutionally Eligible To Become US President
      Social media posts shared thousands of times claim that Senator Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's running mate, could not become president because her parents hailed from abroad. This is false; she was born in the United States, making her constitutionally eligible to be both vice president and president.


      "If crazy Joe cannot serve his full term, Kamala cannot by constitutional law become President," says an August 5, 2020 Facebook post. "She is an anchor baby, mother is from India, father is Jamaican, and neither were american citizens at time of her birth."

      Screenshot of a false Facebook post, taken August 10, 2020

      The claim has been shared elsewhere on Facebook, including here and here.

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      Biden is the presumptive Democratic challenger to Republican Donald Trump in the November 3 election, and will turn 78 just days later. If he is elected, he would be the oldest man ever to assume the US presidency, giving his choice of running mate added significance.

      It is true that Harris's father, Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica, and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was originally from southern India, as Harris wrote in her autobiography.

      But that is irrelevant to her constitutional qualification for the nation's highest elected office.

      Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution says that "no person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States" shall be eligible for the presidency. They must also be at least 35 years old.

      Harris, 55, was born in Oakland, California.

      And Section 2 of the 14th Amendment says that: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

      Under that clause and an 1898 Supreme Court ruling, "anyone born on US soil and subject to its jurisdiction is a natural born citizen, regardless of parental citizenship," Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute says.

      Contrary to what the claims on Facebook suggest, Harris could not at first become vice president if she failed to meet requirements for the presidency.

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      David A. Super, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Economics at the Georgetown University Law Center, said that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States," according to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.

      That means, Super said in an email to AFP, "someone who is not a native-born US citizen, or someone who is not 35 years old, could not take office as vice president."

      The Facebook post is correct in saying that the speaker of the House of Representatives -- currently Democrat Nancy Pelosi -- follows the vice president in succession to the presidency. Congress has determined by statute that this occurs in case of "Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President," Super said.

      Harris, only the second African American woman ever elected to the US Senate, was among those who ran against Biden for the Democratic nomination.

      Former national security advisor Susan Rice, Representative Karen Bass and senators Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth, were among several other women whom Biden could choose.


      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Kamala Harris cannot become US president because her parents hailed from abroad
      Claimed By :  Facebook posts
      Fact Check :  False
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