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Excellent analysis of the Cruz eligibility issue (vanity - thread post by freeper Cboldt)
Cboldt

Posted on 01/15/2016 7:37:32 AM PST by RoosterRedux

To: RoosterRedux

-- Do you think that if Trump wins the nomination he could bring sufficient pressure and influence to get McConnell to change? And if McConnell changed, what would be the next step? --

Action in the Senate is a non-starter. I had an epiphany a few minutes ago. I'll share it.

Whether Cruz is NBC or not doesn't matter, not in the least. What matters is that the Canada BC creates a vector of plausible doubt. How, in the election process is this doubt resolved? At first, in the states.

Trump is 100% right. In the general election, in every state that Cruz as Pres or VP wins, there WILL be a lawsuit. The loser in an election has an absolute right to sue on eligibility grounds, regardless of the margin or loss.

So, the political issue is, does the party want to run an election that gets decided by 20 or 30 lawsuits? Before or after the voters voted doesn't matter so much - just changes how the general election is influenced by court decisions, which could well go against Cruz. Trump said, hey, 5% chance Cruz loses. Do you want to go to war with that risk?

Yes, there is a con-law issue in there too. But either the GOP "sues itself" in the primary, which flat out WONT happen, Cruz is certified qualified in all the states, so no challenge on eligibility is possible; leaving the alternative, lawsuits in the general.

We're stuck with that. Lawsuits in the general are dead certain, if Cruz is the nominee.

121 posted on 1/15/2016, 10:15:45 AM by Cboldt


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To: UCANSEE2; chris37

For next in line, see 20th amendment and 3 USC. VP-elect is correct, statutes go futher down the line. Losing party still lost. Obama is out of office.


61 posted on 01/15/2016 8:39:29 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

We should understand that the Bush v. Gore fiasco ALSO involved State offices that could be negated (The Palm Beach Pokey!).

State rules, to my limited understanding are such that if there are no challenges to the federal slate by political parties, the vote moves forward and becomes “federal” in the sense of Bush v. Gore.

The State party can challenge the slate (and has, actually) but what good would it do for a state Pubbie party to challenge it’s own slate?

And, ironically enough, being of the same party...would they have standing!
:-)


62 posted on 01/15/2016 8:40:50 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: camle

The correct answer is that until around 1985, a woman giving birth outside the country had to have lived within the USA for something like 5 years after the age of 15, and obama’s mama was only barely 18 when she gave birth. Probably in Canada, and probably to give the mulatto baby up for adoption. Clearly she changed her mind when she gave birth and kept him.


63 posted on 01/15/2016 8:41:52 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: JAKraig
Every single state that Cruz wins, is a valid lawsuit on eligibility grounds, in that state's courts.

Obama skated because whoever ran against him conceded eligibility. McCain and some other dipstick, I forget who.

64 posted on 01/15/2016 8:42:00 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: lonestar67

Jeantel, Trump didn’t accuse.
Trump was asked a question point blank by a journalist about Cruz’ eligibility vis a vis natural born citizenship. Trump reflected it was problematic.

Now Jeantel honey, not only did Trump not create or raise this issue, the Journalist who asked the question and got your panties all in a bunch didn’t raise the question either. Because other journalists were raising the question when Ted was running for the senate.

It is wrong for you to try to place blame for this issue being raised on someone who wasn’t even involved in Ted Cruz’ senate run.


65 posted on 01/15/2016 8:43:27 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: WhiskeyX

It worked in Missouri.


66 posted on 01/15/2016 8:43:36 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Liz

His Senate seat is sound on legal grounds. On political/credibility grounds, it’s just another “issue,” having no legal significance on its own.


67 posted on 01/15/2016 8:45:50 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Shadow44
I mean, wouldn’t they tell him he couldn’t run when he filed?
The Constitution doesn't say anything about the requirements to run.
68 posted on 01/15/2016 8:46:15 AM PST by lewislynn ( You know you're a Muslim if everything offends you.)
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To: Shadow44
Shouldn’t the FEC be verifying that to begin with?

No, no, a thousand times no.

Choice of Electors for President of the United States are the sovereign and sole responsibility of the 50 State Legislatures (and Congress, which gave itself 3 electors in 1960).

The Federal government, and any "Federal commission", are the LAST people who have, or who should have, anything to do with the choice of a President.

69 posted on 01/15/2016 8:49:14 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
-- We should understand that the Bush v. Gore fiasco ALSO involved State offices that could be negated --

Sure. Each state has it's own specific procedure, and they are pretty varied. But the loser has rights.

I will say that the extent of mess depends on the loser, fighting. Maybe Hillary or sanders or whoever will concede that Cruz is qualified.

-- The State party can challenge the slate (and has, actually) but what good would it do for a state Pubbie party to challenge it's own slate? --

The GOP has certified Cruz eligible. That precludes suing to find him otherwise, through the primaries.

70 posted on 01/15/2016 8:49:21 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Liz
Texans elected Cruz to the US Senate not knowing he was a dual Canadian citizen.

I honestly thought he was a naturalized American. I knew he was born in Canada, but his family had lived here since he was four, so I naively assumed he had chosen a citizenship at 18.

The other two people I know born with dual citizenship had to.

71 posted on 01/15/2016 8:49:26 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am a person as created by the Law of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man.)
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To: Cboldt

The overt nature of his citizenship status is what makes him more dangerous than Obama. This opens the door for all kinds of trouble down the road.


72 posted on 01/15/2016 8:51:05 AM PST by RC one (race baiting and demagoguery-if you're a Democrat it's what you do.)
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To: chris37
It doesn’t say anything about eligibility with regard to running for the nomination of a party, nor does it say anything about eligibility while running for president

In fact, "being nominated" and "running for President" have no constitutional existence. Both of those quaint customs could be done away with tomorrow, and the Constitution would remain undisturbed.

73 posted on 01/15/2016 8:51:35 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Cboldt

> His Senate seat is sound on legal grounds.

Is it? Presumably but not a certainty.


74 posted on 01/15/2016 8:52:07 AM PST by Ray76
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To: RoosterRedux
How, in the election process is this doubt resolved?
"Doubt" will never be resolved now because Cruz was too stupid or arrogant to have done anything about it before it became an issue.

Now there will forever be "doubt" no matter what any court says.

Cruz will never be elected President and he's poison for VP (he is his own poison pill).

75 posted on 01/15/2016 8:53:15 AM PST by lewislynn ( You know you're a Muslim if everything offends you.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
The loser in an election has an absolute right to sue on eligibility grounds

Probably untrue, because a loser, by definition, would not have a majority of electoral votes cast, and therefore would not be elected even if the "winner" were disqualified.

What is SUPPOSED to happen under those circumstances (which the Founders devoted quite a bit of time to) is that the House of Representatives, voting by states, is supposed to elect the President.

That is what should have happened in 2000, the country would have been much better for it, rather than the USSC's rash and unwise decision to hear Bush v. Gore, rather than to declare it a nonjusticeable political question (which it was).

76 posted on 01/15/2016 8:57:14 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Jim Noble

That’s what it seems to suggest. Anything goes up until he tries to assume office, then there may well be a problem.

This is a bit of a bad situation. It makes me nervous, and I don’t like it.


77 posted on 01/15/2016 9:00:36 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Ray76

No, he’s a citizen. There are rumors his mother wasn’t a US citizen when Cruz was born, but that’s BS. I believe Cruz will produce a CRBA sometime before the SC primary. That means he’s a citizen, not to a metaphysical certainty, but c’mon, close enough to say “fer sure.”


78 posted on 01/15/2016 9:01:03 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

:: The GOP has certified Cruz eligible ::

And, therein, lies the rub.

DJT should STHU, citing this simple fact.


79 posted on 01/15/2016 9:01:20 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: MamaTexan

Thanks for the realtime input.

Of course, Cruz told people only what he needed to get elected....not the plain truth.


80 posted on 01/15/2016 9:02:28 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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