The Bottom Line: We Don't Really Know If Cruz Is Eligible to Be President
Yes, this may be one of those instances where Donald Trump is right. While more legal scholars seem to think the court would find Cruz eligible, we can't say for sure because the Supreme Court hasn't taken up the issue. As PolitiFact notes, lawsuits filed in 2008 contesting John McCain's eligibility didn't go anywhere. "We know from the McCain lawsuits, courts don't want to touch this," said Sarah Duggin, a Catholic University law professor who has studied the issue extensively. "It very well may be that the courts would refuse to go near this. There are so many issues."
Further, what was the claim in those law suits that was advanced to seek to argue that John McCain was not a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II's use of that phrase as a prerequisite to be able to be eligible to the presidency. I confess to reading many filings that claimed that the Great Pretender now in the Oval Office was not a natural born citizen within the meaning intended by the Frames in using the phrase in Article II, but I do not recall cases about McCain. Do you have any citations for such cases?
Further still, I don't see any legal authority that would establish that Senator Cruz would come within that definition that is set out in any actual SCOTUS decision. Why do you think that he would be found to meet the requirement? I do not know how you derive that there are "more legal scholars" that think that. Upon examination, the opinions of such scholars do not seem to have a sound basis.
Frankly, i can’t figure out why more Cruz supporters are not mad at him for using us. I’ve been supporting and rooting for him for years. I voted for him in his senate race and was delighted.
When he renounced his Canadian citizenship, I remember thinking how odd it was. Here is a sitting Senator from Texas and he hadn’t already DONE that? Why? He didn’t know about it? Ok, I said. It’s a little late, but ok.
Since then, like most Texans I assumed he had already handled any possible “birther” issues that may come up later if he ran for president. Wrong.
Then here a few weeks ago and this comes up again? I start reading all the “experts” who have doubts about his eligibility and all I can think of is, “WHY has he not already taken care of this?” He is the only person to blame. Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz alone is responsible for not clearing this up already! It’s selfish, and we’ve all been used as tools to further his political ambitions.
Someone... Anyone... Please tell me why it’s okay that Ted Cruz did not already get this issue definitively straightened out before now? It’s a simple question that no one can answer. What right does he have to ask me to vote for him, knowing that he is willing to put our country through a constitutional crisis because, for whatever stupid reason, he hasn’t taken care of this?