Ted Cruz: Nah, I'm covered. ;)
Posted on 01/23/2016 6:50:32 PM PST by Enlightened1
A Republican attorney in Illinois, a supporter of Ben Carson, on Friday filed a motion with the Illinois State Board of Elections to have Sen. Ted Cruz's name removed from the official Republican primary ballot for the Illinois GOP presidential primary set for March 15.
The legal challenge confirms fellow candidate Donald Trump's argument that the issue of eligibility to be president under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution will dog Cruz as the Texas senator pursues the GOP nomination for president, and possibly a subsequent White House bid.
The motion from Lawrence J. Joyce, who makes his living as a pharmacist licensed in his state, notes that Cruz was born on Dec. 22, 1970, in the city of Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta, and that Cruz has been a citizen of the United States continuously since birth under § 301(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1401.
But Joyce's motion challenges that Cruz is not a "natural born citizen" under the meaning of Article 2, Section 1, and as a result not eligible to be president.
The 'nightmare scenario'
"I have principally two reasons for doing this," Joyce explained to WND in an email. "First, I think Dr. Carson would make both a better president of the United States and a better nominee of the Republican Party.
"Second, I am terrified that if we don't get this cleared up right now, if Ted Cruz does become the nominee, the Democrats will cherry-pick which court or election board they will petition to have him declared to be ineligible in September or October," Joyce continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Jan 14, 2016
SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois State Board of Elections will have several petition challenges to consider for the March 15th GOP and Democrat presidential primaries.
Objections to the petitions of Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton, Roque “Rocky” de La Fuente, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and Larry (Lawrence Cohen) were filed Wednesday, the last day to raise objections.
Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz’s petitions are also being challenged. William Graham of Glen Ellyn Illinois is challenging both Rubio and Cruz, and Lawrence Joyce of Poplar Grove Illinois is also challenging Cruz’s qualifications to be on the Illinois GOP ballot....”
It was on that date that the Great Epiphany occurred and thus began the emergence from dormancy of countless persons who now swear that decades earlier they were taught "NBC = born in the U.S. of parents who are citizens." Though when John McCain ran for president in 2000 that generation was still in hibernation, and they remained so until shortly after the 2008 election.
Though notwithstanding the advent of Google Books and a vast amount of now other readily accessible documentation, not one of them has been able to document a single textbook or resource material from their school days that actually contains that supposed definition.
It's a most curious thing.
Sour grapes. Carson can’t win, so the real conservative won’t be allowed, either.
Ted Cruz: Nah, I'm covered. ;)
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