Trump warns he has 'standing to sue' Cruz on eligibility

Politico ^ | 02/12/16 03:16 PM EST | NOLAN D. MCCASKILL

[shelterguy]

I’m still waiting for trump to reveal all that info he had about obama. I guess I’ll wait a little longer.

[inpajamas]

It all depends on the outcome of the next few contests. If Trump wins, he may select Ted as VP instead of suing. Awesome principles, huh.

[entropy12]

The publicity about Cruz NBC status is driving his poll numbers down. Americans interpret the constitutional NBC requirement of born on US soil differently.

It will actually benefit Cruz if this matter is settle sooner than later. After Cruz nomination, the suit initiated by the democrat nominee will be an unmitigated disaster for Cruz.

[entropy12]

LOL nice!

[entropy12]

Trump was stopped in his tracks when Obama produced a birth certificate from Hawaii. And the hospital would not disclose any further information, such as names of attending physician, nurses, staff etc.

[kjam22]

I’m still waiting for trump to reveal all that info he had about obama. I guess I’ll wait a little longer.

Yep....

[G Larry]

Then WHY do you keep yakking instead of acting, you fraud?

[bigbob]

And if Trump can keep threatening to do it and goads someone else into doing it, he doesn’t have to pay for it. Like the RNC, on behalf of their loser candidate, Jeb!

[SoConPubbie]

More from unscrupulous, lying Trump.

First he states he knows that Cruz eligible, and then when it looks like Cruz is a threat, presto-chango, Cruz his eligibility is a problem.

Trump can’t have it both ways.

This seems to be a pattern with the Donald.

Principles don’t seem to mean much with this man.

[entropy12]

My money is on Trump does NOT select Cruz as VP if the matter is not resolved in the court.

Although a VP candidate is easier to replace than top of the ticket. That senator found to have nervous breakdown in the past was replaced, can’t think of his name.

[AmericanVictory]

Not so.

You are not correct. See Davis v. Federal Election Commission SCOTUS decision and cases cited therein.

Note the following passage from that case: "A party facing prospective injury has standing to sue where the threatened injury is real, immediate, and direct. Los Angeles v. Lyons , 461 U. S. 95, 102 (1983); see also Babbitt v. Farm Workers , 442 U. S. 289, 298 (1979) (A plaintiff may challenge the prospective operation of a statute that presents a realistic and impending threat of direct injury). Davis faced such an injury from the opera- tion of §319(a) when he filed suit. Davis had declared his candidacy and his intent to spend more than $350,000 of personal funds in the general election campaign whose onset was rapidly approaching."

[dware]

If Trump wins, he may select Ted as VP instead of suing.

I still think this is a coordinated effort between Trump/Cruz. Here's why:

1. Get the issue out now, before the dummycrats use it in the general, and

2. Everytime they get this going, the media flies off the handle, giving the two waaaaaay more press and exposure for their $$$.

In the end, they will come together as a strong team, and straight steamroll right into the White House come November. If my theory is indeed correct, it's brilliant politics, by 2 brilliant men.

[shelterguy]

“”Trump was stopped in his tracks when Obama produced a birth certificate from Hawaii. And the hospital would not disclose any further information, such as names of attending physician, nurses, staff etc.”””

And then trump said he had info that would prove the certificate to be false. Face it, trump is all talk and no action. Typical New York liberal.

[AmericanVictory]

Yes, but she was naturalized and became an American citizen before Donald Trump was born and was living here when she bore him. So what you say is clearly, as a matter of established law, not relevant.

[Yaelle]

I believe Cruz is NBC. But who am I? Like a poster said upthread, he would be the first modern President not born in the country. This needs clarification. Because if he is the nominee, what do you think the Dem candidate would do? They would have standing too.

Cruz isn’t thinking, leaving it like this.

Why go into the general knowing you might be disqualified?

[entropy12]

Trump tactics are working!

[inpajamas]

Cruz eligible? - Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. For me, this is a revolution. You don't have a Constitution anymore so why let the Establishment who is holding it hostage use it to stop you from reinstating it. You think you still have a Constitution? Your president does not, he defies it, your judges, they ignore it also as they defy it and redefine it. Same with government bureaucrats who have been given power to bypass it with "rules" and "regulations". Yeah we have the paper, but in practice it does not exist. As it stands now I would take a foreign Constitutionalist in the mold of the Founders over almost everyone one of the candidates if given the option. We are at the point we are done as a nation unless somehow we start over -- not merely try to fix it. Unless we basically junk the garbage that has been added over the last 100 years and start over with what we were given in the beginning we are finished. A pragmatist will not save you. Only principles and values offer any hope. I don't personally care where the values and principles and morals come from if they are good; and I don't care who has them. I will stick with invisible virtues wherever they be found. If they are not embraced by Americans in power, I will support a foreigner who has them. Maybe we (the states) call for a convention and suspend the the Feds power and their interpretation of Constitution to save the Constitution from them. In effect, the document is all but dead anyway so why should we let evil men use it keep us in bondage, by convincing us that we are only righteous if we obey them? Think hard about this: "The question you propose, whether circumstances do not sometimes occur, which make it a duty in officers of high trust, to assume authorities beyond the law, is easy of solution in principle, but sometimes embarrassing in practice. A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.. . . " - Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, 20 Sept. 1810 Works 11 146

yeah, so frankly my dear. . .

[Durbin]

According to his lawyers, like 6 months ago there was no standing.

[SPRINK]

Trump doesn’t need Cruz as VP and Cruz doesn’t need Donald as VP...neither will happen

[BerryDingle]

I wonder why Trump has standing with Cruz but not Obama?