Straw man!
Tribe still campaigning for Hillary, I see.
So it’s about the Soil....
Even a U.S. base or U.S. Embassy is considered U.S. Soil in a foreign country.
One thing for sure. The Democrats have announced they will go to court over this. I promise you the GOPe is probably help funding it.
Cruz is going to get set up by a shopped Judge if he becomes the nominee. The Establishment will then replace him with Rubio or Jeb at that point.
SQUIRREL!
It’s a sad day on FR when Tribe is held out as an authority.
Is Tribe saying that any child of an American ambassador or serviceman or officer who happened to be born overseas was not considered a natural-born American citizen? What a load.
Where were all of these exspurts when Ubama’s bona fides were in question? None of which were ever answered.
Tribe knows this too. He's just shilling for Hillary.
There’s no ideological debate here: Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe and former solicitor general Ted Olson — who were on opposite sides in Bush v. Gore among other cases — co-authored a memorandum in March 2008 detailing the above legal explanation in the context of John McCain’s eligibility.
Democrat Libs are determined to get Trump the GOP nomination, which is curious. Perhaps Hillary and Trump have struck a deal on keeping each other’s secrets...a highly prized New York value among NY pols.
If they can have a Kenyan surely we can have a Cannuck.
Hey,Larry....it wasn’t *perjury* perjury,was it!
Enlightened1, I think where I have known your type is from, The ROY MASTERS cult?
Good luck with eternity.
Let me throw this out to the gang:
Suppose an American contingent of astronauts were rocketed up to the International Space Station for a 16 month mission. Included in the group are a husband and wife team of scientists.
You guessed it - the wife gets pregnant 60 days in and for some temporary reason there are no spacecraft capable of extracting people available for over a year.
The child is born in orbit. Is he/she an American citizen? What if the father is Norwegian and the mother American?
Turning keyboard breathalyzer back on. ;)
S'cuse me, but all of the above is bovine excrement!
Citizenship of both parents should be an overriding principle to birthplace.
Who the hell cares let alone remembers where they were born?
Maybe we are somewhat biased towards where we grew up, but born???
Our loyalties are based on life long experience and influence.. not a place where nobody remembers.
Parents determine where a child’s loyalties lie... not a place of birth.
Every time Obama was challenged on this issue, it was always about where he was born and not about his parents. It was a diversion then and it’s a diversion now.
Tribe is of the school of Constitutional Law which has wreaked havoc on the American Culture. It put the will of the judge and pop culture as the basis for decision making.
Cruz, on the other hand, is inclined to the originalist or original meaning school.
Americans are convinced that only those two schools are possible approaches to Constirutional questions.
However, the more traditional and more judicious approach is to be found in the intent of the drafters as modified under the umbrella of the Natural Law, which is the underlying basis of the drafting of the Constitution. Such an approach would allow for the internet to be protected by the First Amendment. It would not see gay marriage as a right. It would most likely have done away with slavery, but not approved of affirmative action which would have been seen as unjust to innocent people of later generations.
The natural law always raises it head if the face of injustice. It was the basis on which the Nurenberg trials were held.
We ignore it at our own harm.
The MSM is suddenly bed wetting over the proposition of Cruz being the nominee. We appear to be on target.