I guess college professors trump judges?
Freepers posting garbage from a far left crap rag to disoarage the one true conservative in the race, go figure.
one more opinion
Except the Illinois courts ruled otherwise.
Slate snicker
It’s always amusing when leftist, “living ‘constitution’” college professors suddenly, conveniently become originalists.
Oh, well if Slate says it then you know it must be true! (Snicker)
So, you wrote this article? Why are you on this board?
I attended college at the Universityof Chicago. I took “Soviet Domestic Policy” with Cynthia Kaplan. Her biggest problem with the Communist Party was that there were too many men in it. To the university’s credit (and I am not quick to give it), she did NOT get tenure.
By Eric Posner.
Not you.
Oops. You list yourself as the author, but I see the actual author is Eric Posner. Still, Slate does not garner respect here.
I didn’t know Chicago had any “professors”. Especially “law professors”.
Birthers!!
If Obama can be president then so can Cruz. Not that I buy anything this egghead prof has to say on the subject.
People think that lawyers, judges, and pundits know the law. Lawyers are trained to defeat the law in law school. When they can’t, they become judges. At no time in that process do they study the Constitution in a thoughtful manner. How else do we arrive to 2016 with “birthright citizenship” and Canadians running for president. Cruz memorized the Constitution at an early age, but this is not synonymous with understanding. It is deeply disappointing to me that he has joined the chorus of mindless chattering knownothings in their quest to reduce the Constitution to anachronistic drivel.
I take it that it was not a vaginal birth.
Only those that are born within the US, have their grandparents as citizens, and only those that own lands are natural born citizen. The rest of them are hereby indentured servants or slaves.
— Sincerely your colonial administrator.
the media needs to stop trying to tear down Ted Cruz because there needs to be some equal “fact” to the FACT that dark devilish Hussein Muhammed bin Obama was born in Kenya.
Here is his main reasoning:
“a natural born citizen cannot be someone whose birth entitled him to citizenship because of a statute...”
Well, I would tell him that you can argue that EVERYTHING in the constitution is a statute, including the line that says ‘natural born’ means being only born on USA soil. So his reasoning is flawed to begin with.