Posted on 04/12/2016 8:18:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
TRENTON — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is a "natural-born citizen" under the U.S. Constitution and therefore can run in the June 7 New Jersey primary, a state administrative law judge said Tuesday.
"The more persuasive legal analysis is that such a child, born of a citizen-father, citizen-mother, or both, is indeed a 'natural born citizen' within the contemplation of the Constitution," Administrative Law Judge Jeff Masin wrote.
A group of New Jersey residents and a Catholic University of America law professor insisted that Cruz, born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, did not meet the constitutional requirements to be president.
The issue now goes to New Jersey Secretary of State Kim Guadagno, who will make a ruling that can be appealed in state court. Guadagno is also lieutenant governor.
Masin wrote in a 26-page decision that the issue of whether a child born outside the U.S. to an American citizen is eligible to be president "can never be entirely free of doubt, at least barring a definitive ruling" of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Absolute certainty as to this issue is only available to those who actually sat in Philadelphia and themselves thought on the issue" even after "having weighed the arguments as they are presented by those trying to understand the framers' intent," the judge wrote....
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Same guy who declared Obama a NBC.
You would know all about that, right, 2ndDivVet?
The issue now goes to New Jersey Secretary of State Kim Guadagno, who will make a ruling that can be appealed in state court. Guadagno is also lieutenant governor.
Masin wrote in a 26-page decision that the issue of whether a child born outside the U.S. to an American citizen is eligible to be president “can never be entirely free of doubt, at least barring a definitive ruling” of the U.S. Supreme Court.
You need to give this 2ndDiv character a break. You see he has nothing, not even a pot to piss in unless the government gives it to him. The though of anybody other then an establishment type, that isn’t going to keep his gravy train rolling scares the hell out of him. Like any little welfare queen, he is just looking out for his next meal and 40oz.
SELLOUT AND CONSTITUTIONAL IGNORANCE! LIBERALS must be thrown off the bench.
Am I missing something here? Is the judge saying that the actual location of the child's birth doesn't matter?
So disabled veterans are welfare queens?
But Eleanor was not a U.S. citizen at the time of her son’s birth: she had been briefly married to a Brit, was a British citizen, and had become a Canadian citizen just before Ted’s birth.
http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-is-not-nor-has-he-ever-been.html
Zot your @ss for insulting the honor and character of this vet who is a Valuable respected member of our FR community.
RE: “You need to give this 2ndDiv character a break. You see he has nothing, not even a pot to piss in unless the government gives it to him. The though of anybody other then an establishment type, that isn’t going to keep his gravy train rolling scares the hell out of him. Like any little welfare queen, he is just looking out for his next meal and 40oz.”
Yeah, that was uncalled for.
We may have our differences here, but respect is due to all our vets.
(says a 3rd gen vet and father of another!)
Ted Cruz is an American, and yes he is probably a U.S. citizen... But, for the purposes of running for president he is in NO WAY a natural born citizen.
1.) I am not a retired government employee. (2.) My job at the state unemployment office was finding jobs for other veterans. (3.) I have never worked at a Department of Motor Vehicle office.
Cruz is not eligible. He’s a gope mole. More conditioning of the American people by the world socialist.
He’s just another tool of the Nwo. An elitist plant.
Show me where I said I was a retired government employee. I’ll wait right here.
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