New Jersey court rules that Ted Cruz is a “natural born citizen” eligible to become president
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Washington Post ^
| 4/14/16 | Ilya Somin
On Tuesday, New Jersey Administrative law Judge Jeff Masin ruled against a lawsuit claiming that Senator Ted Cruz is not eligible to become president because he is not a “natural born citizen.” The
plaintiffs claimed that Cruz is ineligible because, although he is the son of a US citizen, he was born in Canada (where his parents were living at the time). Judge Masin’s opinion is notable for its detailed analysis of the evidence on the original meaning of the “natural born citizen” and recent scholarship on the subject. I think the opinion is well-reasoned and very persuasive. Judge Masin...
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Judge: Ted Cruz eligible to be on N.J. primary ballot
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northjersey.con ^
| 4/12/16 | Kim Leuddeke
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas meets the criteria to be considered a “natural born citizen” and can run in New Jersey’s Republican presidential primary on June 7, an administrative law judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Jeff Masin’s decision will now go to Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, who also serves as New Jersey’s secretary
of state, for consideration. She can choose to accept it in full or in part, or reject it. Masin heard arguments Monday on two challenges to Cruz’s eligibility to run for president. In both cases, the challengers argued that, because Cruz was born in Canada, he is not...
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New Jersey judge: Ted Cruz eligible for presidential nomination
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CBS News ^
| April 12, 2016 | AP
<p>A New Jersey judge has ruled that Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz meets the constitutional requirements to be president and may appear on the state's presidential primary ballot.</p> <p>Judge Jeff Masin ruled Tuesday that a child of a citizen-father or citizen-mother is "indeed a natural born Citizen within the contemplation of the
Constitution."</p>
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New Jersey Judge Rules Ted Cruz Eligible To Run For President
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Townhall.com ^
| Apr 12, 2016 | Christine Rousselle
A judge in New Jersey has ruled that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is indeed a natural-born citizen and is therefore eligible to be on the New Jersey ballot. Cruz,
who was born in Calgary while his father was working there, is an American citizen via his mother's American citizenship.
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Pennsylvania Judge Rules That Ted Cruz is Eligible to Run for President
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Wall Street Journal ^
| March 11, 2016 | Jacob Gershman
A Pennsylvania judge has rejected an effort to kick Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz off the state primary ballot, ruling that the Texas senator’s birth outside of the United States doesn't disqualify him from the ballot under the U.S. Constitution. The ruling is the latest legal victory for Mr. Cruz on the
eligibility question. So-called "birther" suits have been filed in other states, including New York and Illinois. The cases in those two states were dismissed on technical grounds. [Snip] Unlike the suits filed against Mr. Cruz in other states, the case in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court resulted in a ruling...
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Trump Backer LePage: Cruz Is Ineligible To Be President Because So Are My Daughters
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buzzfeed.com ^
| Christopher Massie
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who endorsed Donald Trump for president last Friday, claimed on Wednesday that Ted Cruz, like his Canadian-born daughters, is ineligible to be the president. Asked
on The Howie Carr Show why he endorsed Trump over Ted Cruz, LePage replied, “Very simple. It’s very simple. I am the most conservative governor that there is. He’s a first time senator. He’s not ready. Number one. Number two is I also have two daughters who were born in Canada. They had to be naturalized. They couldn’t be natural. And so, I have a question there.”
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Both Cruz and Rubio are INELIGIBLE to be POTUS (Vanity)
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Youtube ^
| 02/20/16
This video explains how both Cruz and Rubio are not qualified to run for President of the United States. They are set up Canidates to later be disqulified.https://www.youtube.com/watc
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Illinois judge agrees to hear lawsuit filed against Ted Cruz stating he should NOT be eligible (tr)
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dailymail.co.uk ^
The question of whether or not Ted Cruz can serve as president of the United States is heading to court. A
judge has agreed to hear a lawsuit filed against the presidential hopeful by Illinois voter Lawrence Joyce. CNN reports that the case will be heard in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago on Friday in response to Joyce's claim that Cruz should not appear on the ballot for next month's Illinois primary because he was born in Canada. Cruz has stated before that he is an American citizen despite being born in Canada and having a Cuban father because...
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Ted Cruz Is In The US Senate Illegally (and not eligible for the presidency)
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northamericanlawcenter.org ^
| February 16, 2016 | JB Williams
US Senator Ted Cruz, from Texas, has been under fire in his bid for the White House due to his Canadian citizenship records which make it quite clear that he does not meet the Constitutional "natural born Citizen" requirement for the Oval Office, despite the opinion letter from his Harvard friends. Following
a total lack of vetting on Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 and 2012, many insist that no one ever enter the Oval Office again without proper vetting, including proof of meeting all Constitutional requirements for office. Obama's massive destruction of our Constitutional Republic has placed the issue of...
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RNC Committeewoman Claims Rubio and Cruz Both Ineligible for Presidency
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mediaite.com ^
| February 15
A Republican National committeewoman from Nevada just proposed that not only is Cruz not eligible to be president, but GOP rival Marco Rubio isn't either. Cruz's
Canadian birthplace has been dragged through the press relentlessly over the last few weeks, but Rubio's birth to immigrant parents hasn't been discussed as much. Enter Diana Orrock, who not only serves the RNC, but is running for the Nevada state assembly. She tweeted a link to an article by Devvy Kidd on conservative website News With Views. Kidd contends that because Rubio's parents were born elsewhere and weren't naturalized as citizens until he...
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Canadian Ted Cruz: Does He Have Documents To Prove He's A US Citizen And Eligible To Be Pres?
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freedomoutpost.com ^
| February 10, 2016 | Mac Slavo
According to the Obama administration, because Obama's mother was U.S. citizen and because he was reportedly born in Hawaii, he has the necessary qualifications to be President. But many, dubbed "birthers" by Obama supporters, still believe he was born in Kenya. If true, the argument goes, he would not be qualified to
hold the Executive office because regardless of his mother's citizenship, he was not born on U.S. soil. The latter is a legitimate argument and one that appears to be supported by the Constitution, though no court has ever clearly defined the meaning of a "natural born citizen." Republican...
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Ted Cruz Not Eligible To Be POTUS, According to Most Plausible Interpretation of Constitution
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Hot Air ^
| 2/10/16
With Ted Cruz the victor of the first contest of the GOP nominating calendar, we can no longer avoid the question mischievously posed by Donald Trump: Is Cruz ineligible to be president? Cruz
was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. The Constitution says that only a “natural born citizen†can be president. Is Cruz a natural born citizen? (You may recall that before he attacked Cruz on this front, Trump spent months flogging a ludicrous version of this critique against President Obama, who was actually born in the United States, unlike Cruz.) The words natural...
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University of Chicago Law Professor: Cruz not Eligible
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Slate ^
| February 9, 2016 | Behind the Blue Wall
The words natural born citizen, and their original meaning at the time that this constitutional clause was crafted, go a long way to answering this question. In
founding-era America, like today, a person could be a citizen by virtue of birth on American territory; a citizen by virtue of a statute that granted citizenship to him at birth; a "naturalized" citizen, meaning one who entered the country as an alien but later obtained citizenship via a process determined by law; and a foreigner. A natural born citizen cannot be a foreigner. Foreigners are not citizens. A natural born citizen cannot...
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Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be President
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Slate ^
| February 8, 2016 | Eris Posner
With Ted Cruz the victor of the first contest of the GOP nominating calendar, we can no longer avoid the question mischievously posed by Donald Trump: Is Cruz ineligible to be president? Cruz
was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. The Constitution says that only a “natural born citizen†can be president. Is Cruz a natural born citizen? (You may recall that before he attacked Cruz on this front, Trump spent months flogging a ludicrous version of this critique against President Obama, who was actually born in the United States, unlike Cruz.)
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Ted Cruz: Making U.S. women eligible to be drafted is 'nuts'
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CNN ^
| 2/7/2016 | Theodore Schleifer
Peterborough, New Hampshire (CNN)Ted Cruz told a New Hampshire audience Sunday that requiring women to sign up for the draft is "nuts," breaking with the views of several Republican presidential rivals. Two
days before the New Hampshire primary Cruz veered off his stump speech to blast his GOP competitors on the issue, which came up at the ABC debate Saturday. Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie all said or suggested they'd support women being required to enroll in Selective Service and be eligible for the draft, since female service members can now serve in combat roles. Cruz was not...
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Illinois Election Board: Sorry Trump, Cruz Is Eligible for the Presidency
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Townhall.com ^
| February 3, 2016 | Leah Barkoukis
Ahead of the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump's primary attack against rival Ted Cruz was that he was not qualified for the presidency based on the fact that he was born in Canada. While true, Cruz's mother was an American citizen at the time of his birth, thus meeting the constitutional requirement that
a president be a "natural born citizen." Now, the Illinois Board of Elections is weighing in. And too bad for Trump, their ruling is in Cruz's favor. "The candidate is a natural born citizen by virtue of being born in Canada to his mother who was a U.S. citizen...
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Trump Says He Will Debate Cruz Once Judge Deems Him Eligible to Run
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Truth Revolt ^
| 1/29/2016 | Sara Fisher
Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski announced that Trump would be happy to debate Senator Ted Cruz -- once Cruz is determined to be eligible for the presidency by a federal judge. ....
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Trump Campaign Manager: Trump Will Debate Cruz Once Judge Rules Him Eligible To Run
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BuzzFeed News ^
| 01/28/2016 | Christopher Massie
Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said on Thursday that his candidate would be "happy" to debate Ted Cruz once the Texas senator gets a federal judge to rule him eligible to run for president. "Once
you've gotten that ruling from the federal judge and you're the last man standing in this presidential contest next to Donald Trump, we'll be happy to have a debate with you one-on-one, anywhere you want, because that's the way the system works," Lewandowski said. "But, as it stands right now, we don't even know if Ted Cruz is legally eligible to run for president...
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CNN: Why Ted Cruz Is Eligible To Be pPresident
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CNN ^
| January 14, 2016
(CNN)... If Cruz gets enough electoral votes this fall,then Congress and not the Supreme Court should be the final legal judge of Cruz's eligibility.The Constitution's 12th Amendment clearly says thatCongress counts the electoral votes at a special session;and thus Congress is constitutionally authorizedto refuse to count any electoral votes that Congress
considers invalid. Elsewhere, Article I, section 5 of the Constitution makes clear thateach house of Congress may "judge" whethera would-be member of that house meets the constitutional eligibility rules for that house. ... If a dispute arises ... the Constitution clearly saysthe Senate is "the judge" of Smith's...
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Fox News (2014): Cruz Ineligible due to Canadian Birth
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Twitter/Fox News Clip ^
| 01/18/2016 | Fox
Short clip (17 seconds) at link above. Fox
was discussing potential Presidential candidates. Discusses Rubio then brings up Cruz, but then dismisses due to not being a natural born citizen.
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