Mcconnel had the chance to address this and could have said Cruz is a citizen so it is a non-issueÂ, instead he chose to say,
“I just don’t think the Senate ought to get into the middle of this, These guys will all slug it out in Iowa and New Hampshire. We’ll have a nominee hopefully by sometime in the spring.”
He certainly didn’t have Teds back. Will there be lawsuits filed by the dem nominee? Maybe
No Senate resolution regarding nobama’s, McLames or Cruz’s NBC makes one bit of difference.
Only SCOTUS has the ability to determine precisely what NBC means, but the SCOTUS rarely becomes entangled in political disputes.
The conundrum is that STANDING is likely to keep NBC from coming before the SCOTUS ahead of the person in question being elected and once that person in question is elected and sworn in, he is the President according to the Constitution regardless of how he got there.
The Constitution gives only one stop, when the Electoral College is certified and that requires some significant steps to challenge.
In short NBC will not be decided and will require an Amendment to the Constitution to become more specific.