Posted on 02/24/2016 11:07:13 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Constitutional law expert Donald Trump will play host to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at one of the real estate mogul's insistently-named Trump buildings on Friday. While the purpose of the meeting isn't clear, it will likely involve Trump dangling wads of cash from a fishing rod just over Cruz's head and reviewing his citizenship documents with an old-timey magnifying glass.
You may recall that earlier this year, Trump told ABC News that he wasn't certain whether Canadian-born Cruz was actually eligible to run for president. Asked by ABC's Jonathan Karl for some reason if Cruz could run, Trump replied, "If he was born in Canada, perhaps not." Then: "I don’t know the circumstances. I heard somebody told me he was born in Canada. That’s really his thing." Which is pretty sound analysis.
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So that's one topic they'll certainly cover, Trump looking sternly at Cruz from under that shelf of orange-gray hair. Trump will probably also intimate, as he did to Karl, that he plans on running in '16, and has billions and billions of dollars to do so. This is Trump's carrot-stick combo: All of this money will go to me or to you, Cruz, so let's talk.
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What does Trump get out of the meeting? Press coverage and, more importantly, to be taken seriously as a "kingmaker." If Cruz does well over the coming months, you will hear a lot about how Trump knew-him-when. What does Cruz get out of the Friday meeting? It's not entirely clear, though it cements him more firmly in the Republican fringe. (Meanwhile, Cruz's dad is fundraising for Sarah Palin.) But if Cruz believes that Trump can help pave the way to electoral victory, a word of caution: Trump is about as good at political kingmaking as he is at making elegant, subtle high rises
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Insults from a Trump supporter- name calling, too. Imagine that-LOL.
And here I thought I was being sensitive to your cognitive limitations. Oh well, I tried.
Which ones, the GOPee RINOs or the Communist/Socialist/Democrats?
There is a reason he has been tagged as an outsider, and suddenly that's a bad thing?
You are a piece of work. I’ll put my IQ up against yours any day. Bye.
IIRC, the court does have primary jurisdiction in a very few matters. I’m not sure if this would be one.
If the Supreme Court has primary or direct jurisdiction, they would have decided this sticky issue long ago. It must be brought to them as an appeal from a lower court.
Article III, section 2, of the Constitution distributes the federal judicial power between the Supreme Court's appellate and original jurisdiction, providing that the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction in "all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls," and in cases to which a state is a party. In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress made the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction exclusive in suits between two or more states, between a state and a foreign government, and in suits against ambassadors and other public ministers. The Supreme Court's jurisdiction over the remainder of suits to which a state was a party was to be concurrent, presumably with state courts since the statute did not expressly confer these cases upon the inferior federal courts.
The vast majority of the Supreme Court's cases in which it has had original jurisdiction have been suits between the states, but those have been a relatively small part of that case load.
Thanks for that great find.
You’re welcome!
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