Schwarzenegger 2020: Equal Opportunity to Govern

[Varyon]

Getting a portion of the constitution rendered unconstitutional strikes me as a complete non-starter, so it would need to be a constitutional amendment. By 2015, Arnie may have sufficient supernatural pull to be able to get the renewed attention at that time to go through and cause an amendment. It needs to have occurred too late for him to run in 2016, however, so it would need to be passed during the Trump administration. Spun correctly, it might be possible to convince Republicans that support for it will reduce some of the perception of them being anti-immigrant, yet without seeming to compromise on their position against illegal immigration. The Democratic Party strikes me as one that would generally be in favor of such an amendment, although there would be the risk of a Schwarzenegger campaign if they managed to oust Trump. There's also the issue that the Congress of the time is extremely partisan, and them working together on anything is rather unlikely. Still, enough supernatural and mundane greasing may be sufficient to get it through, priming Arnie for a 2020 run. I presume he wouldn't try to jump ship and join the Democrats, so there will be the oddity of someone going for a nomination in lieu of the sitting President, which will certainly be an uphill battle, but may be doable for the supernaturally-enhanced Governator. Failing that, he might be able to try for a third-party nomination of some flavor.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Varyon

Getting a portion of the constitution rendered unconstitutional strikes me as a complete non-starter, so it would need to be a constitutional amendment.

The only conceivable way is an interpretation of some amendment to have already repealed the requirement. The most reasonable way is via a reading of the 14th amendment as eliminating any idea of different tiers of citizenship. "Natural born citizen" can't be a privileged class given rights beyond those of other citizens (by the same logic, age and residence requirements are probably in jeopardy).

That would almost certainly require the intervention of alien space bats and probably a few voodoo sharks, but it's about the only legal sounding argument I can think of.