Posted on 01/06/2016 3:42:13 PM PST by Theoria
A Florida Democrat and some Obama "birthers" agree about Cruz.
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump suggested this week his nearest rival for the Republican presidential nomination may be ineligible for office and won a daylong echo across the political press, despite Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's attempt to brush off the commentary.
In raising the issue, Trump said Republicans should be concerned about Democrats hog-tying Cruz with a yearslong legal challenge -- and indeed an effort to do just that already is afoot.
Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, an attorney and Democratic Senate candidate, tells U.S. News he will file a lawsuit challenging Cruz's eligibility should he overtake Trump and win the nomination -- a scenario that's at least plausible with the senator besting Trump in some Iowa polls.
Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1970 to an American mother and a Cuban father who later gained U.S. citizenship. There's no court precedent on whether foreign-born Americans meet the Constitution's "natural-born citizen" requirement, but there's more to scrutiny of Cruz's eligibility.
"If he's not qualified to be president according to our Constitution, then he certainly should not serve," Grayson says, poring over his notes for the possible lawsuit. "There's quite a lot of stuff here."
n addition to the question of whether Cruz's birth in Canada disqualifies him from being considered a natural-born citizen, for which there are clashing historical claims, Grayson notes there's disagreement about whether both parents of U.S. citizens born overseas must be citizens.
And then there's Cruz's mother, Eleanor Darragh Wilson.
Grayson says Wilson may have forfeited her U.S. citizenship by taking a Canadian oath of citizenship, and that he's seen no evidence she actually was born in the U.S.
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My guess is that Trump brought it up to knock Cruz off-message. Of course, he’s not going to dwell on it incessantly because that would lose him support from the base.
You assume that the Left plays fair on the battlefield of politics. They are the Colonists shooting behind the trees and Republicans are the brightly-colored redcoats lined up in neat rows getting mowed down.
Please tell me this wasn’t Allen West’s seat.
He doesn’t have ‘standing’
Ted Cruz's ironic birther predicament[2013]'....But where was baby Ted over Christmas, an astute birther might ask. Donald Trump could build a casino in a hole that size.'
'.......With so much grist for the birther mill, Cruz could face weeks, or months, of demands for his mother's school registration, utility bills, leases, and property tax records - all of which would be subjected to intensive internet scrutiny. Maybe Donald Trump would send investigators to Delaware. After all, political observers have heard countless charges that documents can be faked.'
Exactly. Grayson’s suit, if he should be silly enough to file it, will have to be dismissed for lack of standing.
Re:”Ah, it’s... so beautiful. “Trump is finished! He jumped the shark!†Cruz is hurting himself by just ignoring this issue. It’s not going away. And what’s beautiful about it is that there is only one month till the primaries in Iowa, and Cruz’s supporters in Iowa are mushes, ready to bolt!”
Grayson, Obama, Mccain and now “GPH”.
You choose very elite company to throw your lot in with.
They are a steaming pile of human dung.
And you are the fly on top.
Sadly for Cruz, he can't just attack the character of his opponents as an excuse not to unseal his mother's records.
Re:”Sadly for Cruz, he can’t just attack the character of his opponents as an excuse not to unseal his mother’s records.”
You seem passionate about getting the truth out.
Maybe you can help explain trumps ties to the mafia since he does not seem interested in doing so.
From “The Independent”:
Donald Trump walks out over questions about his mafia connections during BBC Panorama interview
Maybe you can help get to the bottom of that one.
Get back to us after you have exhaustively explored the pertinent details.
Exactly what the Republicans should have done to Obama.....challenge his eligibility....
The Repubs. were too afraid of challenging a black.....the Democrats aren’t afraid of challenging a Hispanic......go figure
Yeah, I'm so sure that would stop Hillary's SuperPACs dead in their tracks.
LOL, surely it would.
BTTT
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