Posted on 02/29/2016 1:44:40 PM PST by Enlightened1
Although Florida media reported that Senator Marco Rubio’s parents were not US citizens when he was born, national media has largely avoided the topic. Senator Ted Cruz’s status as a natural born Canadian and a number of related eligibility lawsuits were underreported nationally, until news hit that an IL judge was hearing one of the cases.
Cruz’s lawsuits were filed in Florida, Vermont, Texas, Utah, Illinois, Arkansas, Alabama, New York, and Pennsylvania, and individuals who raised a ballot challenge in Indiana are weighing whether they’ll file suit.
Cruz has a new IL court date March 1st – Super Tuesday, a filing deadline on March 2nd for the AR case after his requested extension was granted, and a joint court date with one Senator Marco Rubio on March 4th in Rubio’s home state of Florida. Rubio’s pending lawsuits, court dates, and questionable defenses to the actions have been missing from the national discussion.
The initial narrative had Rubio’s parents fleeing Cuba’s Castro in 1959. It was later revealed they’d arrived in America in 1956 instead. Rubio’s parents did not become US citizens until nearly twenty years later, several years after Rubio’s 1971 birth. Their status as Cuban citizens, not US citizens, at the time of Marco’s birth prompted his inclusion in the Florida, Vermont, Arkansas and Indiana suits and challenges above.
Thomas Lee, a professor of constitutional and international law at Fordham Law School, explained a portion of the Originalist view of natural born citizenship, namely jus soli and jus sanguinis. As Mario Apuzzo elucidates:
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If it isn’t resolved, either one as President would be a disaster. The elite would hold it over their heads, and shop for judges who will decide things the way they’re told to if they don’t toe the line.
The LAW is an ass.
If Cruz is eligible then anyone born to an American woman anywhere, even a woman raped by AL Qaeda in Pakistan whose offspring lived there for 35 years is too.
Rubio wasnt even born to American Citizens.
Both of these guys have a problem that is not going to be solved any time soon.
The decision will depend on who the judges are and who the defendants are, not the LAW.
The LAW is whatever the guy with the most guns and money says it is.
So, it’ll be the Constitution as You interpret it. Not what the courts decide?
It has a clear meaning.
They may reinterpret it, but a lot of us still know what it means.
We will have to accept the new definition if the Supreme Court says so, we have to accept Obamacare and gay marraige because they say so. Doesn’t make it right.
You have that right. If we had courts that actually interpreted the law rather than make it we would all have liberty. I know I could do a better job than 50 % of the justices on the Supreme Court. If you are defending the decisions of these tyrants you have a real problem.
It really doesn't matter what the lawyers say and they do argue both sides, it only matters what the Supreme Court says. They can decide that a tax is a penalty and a penalty is a tax. Just depends on what they desire.
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