nuff said
Posted on 11/28/2015 8:27:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Texas Senator Ted Cruz has been rising in the polls of late, not only in Iowa, but nationally as well. (And high time, if you ask me.) It’s far too soon to declare him a resident of the top tier aside Trump with so few samples, but the prospect of his being a serious contender for the nomination can’t be discounted. And if he wins the Party’s endorsement, he may be in fine shape to take on Hillary Clinton and then be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. So then what?
Well, at least according to Alan Grayson, we should file a beautiful lawsuit to challenge his qualifications to hold the office. (Mediaite)
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson told radio host Alan Colmes Wednesday that if Ted Cruz is elected president, he "will file that beautiful lawsuit saying that he's unqualified for the job" according to the Constitution.
Cruz was born in Canada to a native-born American mother, making the presidential candidate a dual Canadian-American citizen. It was not until a 2013 Dallas Morning News article that Cruz acknowledged his Canadian citizenry publicly. In 2014, the senator renounced his Canadian citizenship altogether.
Lamenting the "appalling choices" Republicans have to choose among, Grayson told Colmes the Republican race "resolved itself into this weird reality show."
Even if Grayson is just grousing and looking for a way to throw darts at Cruz, I think this is a great idea and we should absolutely move forward with it in the event that Ted Cruz is elected. In fact, it should start the day after he’s sworn in because this would no doubt take quite a while. I don’t say this because I have any doubt that Cruz would qualify under our current interpretation of the law.. he would. Under Title 8 rules we have what is currently a broadly accepted definition who who qualifies as a natural citizen at the time of their birth as opposed to someone who is naturalized. Cruz would most likely qualify under section (e) but most certainly under section (g)
a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years
There’s just one problem with deciding that Cruz is qualified based on that snippet of legislation: it’s never been challenged all the way up through the courts and this issue keeps coming up over and over again. I’m not even talking about Barack Obama here; you may recall that Congress actually had to go to the trouble of passing a resolution in 2008 stating that John McCain was a natural born citizen. (McCain was born in Panama to a military family on assignment and his parents were citizens.)
So why not just pass another amendment like that for Ted Cruz? Because it doesn’t solve anything. The phrase natural born citizen is essentially unique in the writings of the Founders and they didn’t do a very good job of explaining themselves. If we had a ruling from the Supremes to put into the books not just on Ted Cruz in particular, but on the exact meaning of the phrase we could be done with this once and for all. It seems self evident that the Founders drew a clear distinction between two types of citizens; natural born and naturalized. Cruz, like McCain, never went through the naturalization process since it was always assumed they were citizens at the time of their birth, so they are either natural born citizens or they’re illegal aliens.
No matter how often we scratch our heads over the various rulings handed down from the Supremes these days, I can’t see where we lose on this one. Let them nail this thing down once and for all so we can be done with it without having to go through another constitutional amendment. It won’t affect President Cruz one bit and we can spare future generations all of this nonsense.
nuff said
That is one crazy looking dude. Is that the Democrat Representative Grayson?
Settled law move on.
Grayson is a certifiable nut-job.
The article was posted in ‘Hot Air’. How appropriate.
I sure hope that freak has never been allowed to purchase a gun.
“Grayson is a certifiable nut-job.”
Who wins elections and is worth at least 25 million so has money to burn. Last I heard he was having a nasty divorce from his wife who gave him a few children
He is nasty all ways around
Yes, that’s him
You said it.
Michelle Malkin founded Hotair.com
Precedent Obama has rendered it a moot point.
An honest study of the founders writings and contemporary works by others reveals that to them natural born citizen meant born here of citizen parents.
But both parties wanted to run ineligible candidates, so they arranged the McCain fig leaf.
If one’s mother being an American makes one eligible, then Winston Churchill could have been President.
And this is why I am a scientist, not a lawyer. Scientists make an effort to write clearly and unambiguously. Lawyers write tangled webs of words meant to obfuscate rather than define. After reading that mess several times, I am still not certain which of the three people mentioned is supposed to have lived in US territory for at least 5 years. The alien parent? The citizen parent?
Nope. We settled that when we elected B. Hussein twice.
I was referred to Hot Air - not the web magazine as such.
Dig 'im up and hook some jumper cables to him.
I suppose after this fails they will proclaim his Birth Certificate has been altered, and he is really an islamist who.
Of course for obama these things are true, the evidence is overwhelming and indisputable but in liberal logic truth does not matter, only the accusation that they proclaim matters, not a shred of evidence is necessary nor expected.
Well, the problem is the “citizen at birth” provision in 8 USC Section 1401. I believe scholars and pundits are interpreting “citizen at birth” to be the same as “natural born citizen.”
Actually, I am hoping this matter ends up before SCOTUS so it can be settled. However, knowing our learned justices, they will probably punt. Bunch of corrupt cowards.
Alan Grayson is one of richest congressman in the country, but just one week before Election Day, 9 Investigates has learned his estranged wife is now using tax dollars to support her children.
In front of his home, Channel 9's Karla Ray saw a septic leak. Inside the home, she saw mold in nearly every room.
"I don't have any money at all," said Grayson's wife, Lolita Grayson. "He's been holding all our money for years and years."
Grayson's wife said she applied for and received an EBT card from the state.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/how-did-alan-graysons-wife-get-approved-public-ass/nhtMk/
Where is Ted Cruz different from the present occupant in his eligibility!!!
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