A couple of really bad assumptions in there.
1. Ted Cruz was a citizen of Canada purely by virtue of Canada's statutory regime, not an NBC, as he had no abiding connection to Canada by descent, a necessary requirement for traditional NBC status. 2. He was also a US Citizen as defined in OUR statutes, the ones that count in this country (we are not Canada and are not bound by their laws). 3. No Federal court will take jurisdiction over the case because they have none, Alan Grayson (the idiot) be damned. 4. Here's what YOU can bet on: Cruz WILL be the nominee, any effort to have him declared ineligible will fail utterly and quickly, and he will go on to be elected and serve as one of the greatest Presidents of our history.
Actually you are wrong. Canadian law that applied at the time specifically said anybody born in Canada was a Natural Born Citizen of Canada. The law used that term. He was born in Canada so he was a NBC Canadian.
Canadian law says otherwise:
http://www.pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-citizenship-act-1947
Chapter 15, Section 5A is very clear: “A person born after the commencement of this Act(the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947) is a natural born Canadian citizen-—”
Cruz was born in Calgary Canada and thus was born a natural born Canadian citizen.
Because of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952, passed by the US Congress, Cruz’s mother could impart American citizenship to him because and only because she met certain statutory requirements for age and residency time in the Us prior to Cruz’s birth.
Thus, Cruz is an American citizen by statute, and not natural born.
Judge Pellegrini’s statement that any citizen is a natural born citizen has no statutory nor historical precedent. This is not even asserted in Wong, 1898.
Well, judges have erred before.