“Here we go again…”
– Literally Everyone Who Recoiled at the “Birtherism” Lie Pushed Against President Obama By (Among Others) the Person Who is Now the President of the United States.
Let me preface this blog post by saying I’m not the biggest fan of Kamala Harris. Or for that matter, any type of fan at all.
I’m a liberal (in the classical sense). She’s too far-left for my taste, and I can’t say that I’m thrilled that Mr. Biden decided to name her as the next POTUS when Mr. Biden resigns in two years for “health reasons” Vice Presidential nominee.
But Ms. Harris was born in Oakland, California to immigrant parents. She is a natural-born citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment. Period. 
To argue otherwise is either willful ignorance or racist maliciousness.
You can attack her views. You can attack her voting record. You can attack her demeanor (though, I will not do so).
But you can’t attack her eligibility to run for office. If someone truly “believes in the Constitution,” a document that many Twitter scholars surely have not actually read and far fewer of them actually understand, then he or she must also “believe” in Article III.
The Supreme Court settled this question in 1898 in the Wong Kim Ark case. In other words, we don’t need to argue about what “natural-born citizen” means anymore. The Supreme Court already told us. That’s how the Constitution works.
As if that wasn’t enough, Congress, through a duly-enacted law signed by the President, also told us what a citizen is:
“The following shall be . . . citizens of the United States at birth: a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” See 8 U.S.C. § 1401.
As a Harris campaign spokesman, Ian Sams, aptly told PolitiFact, “Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California, which is, was, and presumably will be in the United States of America. End of story.”
For better or worse, California is (and presumably will be) in the United States. Ergo, Kamala Harris is a “natural born” United States citizen.
the irked moderate 