Cruz’s mom was well over 18 tears old and a citizen past 18 for the 7 required years in order to pass citizenship on.
UNLIKE barry’s mommy...
The real problem is that those claiming that he is qualified to be president cite congressional law — the problem with that is that congress’s powers extend to naturalization, not to [re]defining terms in the Constitution (absent amendment), so by citing congressional law they undermine their claim that he is a natural born citizen.
IOW — If congress can declare who is/isn’t NBC then they can essentially modify the Constitution’s presidential requirements.
Realistically, I don’t think anyone is going to challenge the eligibility of Cruz to run for president.
We can have these debates, but realistically, if he wants to run, he will run. Only a court decision could realistically stop him from running. Who is going to file a lawsuit on this subject for a court to review in the first place???