Maybe Cruz can bring up Trump’s elderly mother again. It sure swayed me!
So what does one need to do to prove “Born in the USA”?
Trumpets are worried, are they? Yes, Cruz will win Iowa.
I read somewhere that Cruz didn’t get his US citizenship until he was 15 months old. (haven’t seen more than one source, so can’t be sure it’s true) Can’t figure out how that’s a natural born citizen.
And Cruz has only used his own words to assuage that doubt.
Action speaks louder than words.
As an aside, the way Trump dispatches opponents is to pick at them until they reveal who they are...their personalities.
Cruz is a very smart guy...but no one seems to like him. He has lots of supporters, but his classmates at Princeton and Harvard didn't like him.
His fellow Senators don't like him.
He is certainly brilliant and a great debater.
Furthermore, it isn't necessary that a good President be a likeable person.
That said...folks just don't vote for an unlikeable person for President.
Cruz is smart as a whip...but he just isn't likeable.
He's too smart for his own good. And just doesn't know how to reign it in.
In his emails to the Guardian, Tribe discussed Cruz’s own approach to constitutional issues, noting that under “the kind of judge Cruz says he admires and would appoint to the supreme court - an ‘originalist’ who claims to be bound by the historical meaning of the constitution’s terms at the time of their adoption - Cruz wouldn’t be eligible because the legal principles that prevailed in the 1780s and 90s required that someone be born on US soil to be a “natural born citizen.”
He added: “Even having two US parents wouldn’t suffice for a genuine originalist. And having just an American mother, as Cruz did, would clearly have been insufficient at a time that made patrilineal descent decisive.
“On the other hand, to the kind of judge that I admire and Cruz abhors - a ‘living constitutionalist’ who believes that the constitution’s meaning evolves with the needs of the time - Cruz would ironically be eligible because it no longer makes sense to be bound by so narrow and strict a definition.”
Tribe said: “There is no single, settled answer. And our supreme court has never addressed the issue.”
Not this crap again. Give it up Trump cult and your democrat brothers.
Cruz is totally qualified as a Natural Born Citizen (which means a "citizen at the moment of birth") by his mother's citizenship.
This is simply the TRumpettes trying to muddy the water.
Bozo Perot split the Republican vote in 1992, which gave us Clinton. Had Bill not been elected, we would never be faced with Hillary.
Why are Conservatives so intent on eating their young?
He was a citizen at birth, did not need to go through a naturalization process, he’s a natural born citizen
Hey, BlackFemaleArmyCaptain, you are clearly using Google to find any and every local article on this. give it a rest. Trump is a loser, and so are you.
Want me to send you some names of nobodies who say so? You might run out without them. You certainly enjoy being a tool for dt for this nonissue. If it ever gets to a court it will be thrown out in a NY minute.
I am a Ted Cruz supporter and I agree that he is not constitutionally qualified for President, because he is not a Natural Born Citizen.
I further believe that, after 8 years of the similarly unqualified Obama, it does not matter.
By the way, the only body that can disqualify a person who has received the requisite number of Electoral votes is the U. S. Congress assembled to count those electoral votes, and that requires only one Congressman to object.
Also, the USSC has no voice in the matter whatsoever, unless the Congress gives them that voice through legislation.
Problem : natural born citizen not settled law
Solution: Declarative judgment from SCOTUS
Standing: RNC would be damaged if not following law
Contact RNC and tell them to settle issue for Cruz , Rubio ; Jindall and Trump
That is the correct condition of law. This issue is settled. Cruz is/was naturalized. It's an easy conclusion to reach, if one is honest about it.
The dam is starting to leak. The wall of elite misinformers is going to take a hit to their credibility. Katyal and Clement are full of crap on this important point, and I think they know it too.
And took up arms for Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
"Every other president and presidential candidate in our history was born either within the United States or one of its possessions."
Or, had falsified records showing they were, which were not challenged by a state or Congress.
The essential and timely question is still: Can somebody born in another country, outside a US possession, meet the Article II intent and definition?
You will answer that question depending on whether you support Ted Cruz for POTUS, or not.
Which makes it the perfect legal test case. <>p>And, a question the republic sorely needs answered. With the levels of immigration, international travel and residence, divorce etc. we the United States of America need to define Natural Born Citizen with finality.
And a Constitutional Amendment, in the long run, is the way to do it.
Unfortunately, this cycle Cruz's status will be decided by how many states allow him ballot access and whether the Federal Courts agree with his definition.
Bump.
Nope, only liberals like Trump and Clinton and Sanders are allowed to be leaders from this point forward... All hail Sodomania!