NFRA says Kamala can't run for president because of Dred Scott decision.
Group also challenged right of Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley to appear on Republican primary ballots
www.independent.co.uk
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 document and the citing of the Dred Scott decision were initially noted by lawyer
Andrew Fleischman on X, formerly Twitter.
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.