Posted on 01/07/2016 5:57:26 PM PST by VinL
Edited on 01/07/2016 7:04:50 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Texas Senator Ted Cruz doesn't have the endorsement of Utah's senior Republican Senator, but he just got an important legal opinion that could be more valuable.
Senator Orrin Hatch is the senior Republican and President Pro-Tem of the Senate. He's also a long-time member and former chair of the Judiciary Committee, putting him as close to the federal judiciary as any legislator in Washington.
Meanwhile, I just thought of a great theme song for Birther Sissy Trump, who cowered and went dirty went he finally realized that he'd have to fight Cruz face to face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBrw3rQvKo
Hatch does not like Cruz, or his buddy Lee....but he knows this whole birther thing is bullsh_t.
Contrary to what some think, the law DOES NOT require two citizen parents:
A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.) The U.S. citizen parent must be the genetic or the gestational parent and the legal parent of the child under local law at the time and place of the child’s birth to transmit U.S. citizenship.
Cruz is going through a vetting process. I think it’s a good thing.
I heard someone say that trump did the republican party and Cruze a favor bringing it up and getting everyone talking about it now rather then next year. this makes it so that its not new news and a conspiracy for low info and disengaged voters.....
Obama eligibility? Still unproven.
LOL reminds me of a kid I grew up with.
He was a black kid in a white family and when I was 8 or 9 or so years old I had some questions. His dad being a typical BSer gave me some story about their white kids being born in the USA but the Black one was born while they were on a trip to Africa so he was black.
However it does lead to some interesting questions on adoption from outside the country and eligibility.
TRUTH IMHO..... I honestly believe if someone had come along to FR a year ago, and suggested Cruz was not eligible to run for President, I think they would have been laughed out of here.
Just my observation
The final say in whether president candidates are qualified is a joint session of house and senate to receive the votes of the electorates. NBC is ultimately a political issue not a court issue.
I saw that on CNN., was a beautiful blonde girl that supports Trump (think works for him?) Her name was actually Scotty something, yes female
What she was saying was not very believable to me, she was trying to say stuff like Trump didn`t mean it in a bad way, suggested she thought he was actually trying to help Cruz
Contrary to what some think, the law DOES NOT require two citizen parents:
A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.) The U.S. citizen parent must be the genetic or the gestational parent and the legal parent of the child under local law at the time and place of the child’s birth to transmit U.S. citizenship.
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I disagree. I’ve seen it said that both parents must be U.S. citizens. This would make Cruz ineligible to be president.
Cruz was a lawyer, a Constitutional scholar, a clerk of a chief justice, a solicitor general of a major state, a senator, and planning to run for the presidency....do you actually believe his statement that he did not know that he had Canadian citizenship? He came out with that statement not long before he announced his presidential run.
That has always bothered me. I can’t believe he didn’t know. His father was silent? His mother was silent? He never thought to check?
What is that all about?
You are missing the distinction
You can be naturalized and be a congressman or a senator.
-No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States,
-No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States
Note the word Citizen, and the minimum number of years required.
-No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
Note the requirement does not contain a minimum time period, because naturalized Citizens, and those requiring laws, or rules, for Citizenship are excluded
The US had zero Natural Born Citizens when the country was born. At best, the first NB Citizens came nine months later.
Your statute excerpt speaks to Citizens, not Natural Born Citizens.
There is a difference!
Trump had an interview on FoxNews this afternoon saying basically the same thing. As long as Cruz continues to correctly state this as a non-issue and not take The Donald’s bait, he’s ok.
Yes, but there are only two kinds of citizens: natural-born and naturalized. So if Cruz wasn't naturalized, he's natural born.
What is that all about?
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What is “what” all about? He’s eligible to run, period.
If I were born in a different country to American parents but returned to the US before I had any memories of ever having been born somewhere else, I would never thought to check either.
Do you really know where you were born?
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