Axios: “Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis on Thursday shared a Newsweek op-ed that baselessly claims Sen. Kamala Harris may be ineligible for the vice presidency because both of her parents were not naturalized citizens at her birth. Harris was born in Oakland, Calif. She is an American citizen and is eligible for the office. Critics, including many Republicans, denounced the piece as a new attempt at ‘birtherism’ — the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not actually born in the U.S. — targeting the first woman of color on a presidential ticket.”
“The op-ed, penned by conservative law professor John Eastman and published Wednesday, argues that Harris might not be considered a natural-born citizen because a clause in the 14th Amendment — ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof [the U.S.]’ — could preclude her given her parents’ citizenship. In January 2016, Eastman argued in the National Review that doubts about the presidential eligibility of Sen. Ted Cruz, born in Canada to an American mother, were ‘downright silly…No serious constitutional scholar adheres to the view that the meaning of the ‘natural-born citizen’ requirement contained in … the Constitution applies only to people born on American soil.'”