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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. I beleive that natural born citizenship should be decided in a federal court, not by one state at a time.

We Trump supporters do not believe the ends justify the means, let Cruz appear on the ballot and compete for votes. Too bad the same couldn’t have happened in Colorado.


15 posted on 04/16/2016 2:23:42 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob
-- I beleive that natural born citizenship should be decided in a federal court, not by one state at a time. --

Lots of issues go through a state first, federal court later progression. RKBA cases against state laws, for example. The cases don't have to run through that course, but they often do.

At this stage of the nomination and election process, the cases involve state laws that pertain to ballot access. There is no federal law for ballot access, and the federal courts uniformly deny standing to people who argue that an ineligible person is on the ballot.

Fifty years ago this would have been an easy case. In fact, so easy that the circumstances of it coming up would unlikely exist. The NBC question would not have been advanced to this level of prominence by the collection of Congress, political parties, and academic hacks. The water has been seriously muddied since, much as it was and is with the RKBA.

19 posted on 04/16/2016 2:36:16 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: bigbob
We Trump supporters do not believe the ends justify the means

Be careful. It is easy to dislocate your shoulder when you are patting yourself on the back.

On a more serious note, the behavior of the Trump supporters the last few days in spreading dubious and scandalous rumors about Cruz suggest otherwise.

24 posted on 04/16/2016 2:53:40 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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