Posted on 01/15/2016 5:53:58 PM PST by Enlightened1
People are entitled to their own opinions about what the definition ought to be. But the kind of judge Cruz says he admires and would appoint to the Supreme Court is an "originalist," one who claims to be bound by the narrowly historical meaning of the Constitution's terms at the time of their adoption. To his kind of judge, Cruz ironically wouldn't be eligible, because the legal principles that prevailed in the 1780s and '90s required that someone actually be born on US soil to be a "natural born" citizen. Even having two US parents wouldn't suffice. And having just an American mother, as Cruz did, would have been insufficient at a time that made patrilineal descent decisive.
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Straw man!
Tribe still campaigning for Hillary, I see.
So it’s about the Soil....
Even a U.S. base or U.S. Embassy is considered U.S. Soil in a foreign country.
One thing for sure. The Democrats have announced they will go to court over this. I promise you the GOPe is probably help funding it.
Cruz is going to get set up by a shopped Judge if he becomes the nominee. The Establishment will then replace him with Rubio or Jeb at that point.
SQUIRREL!
It’s a sad day on FR when Tribe is held out as an authority.
Is Tribe saying that any child of an American ambassador or serviceman or officer who happened to be born overseas was not considered a natural-born American citizen? What a load.
Where were all of these exspurts when Ubama’s bona fides were in question? None of which were ever answered.
Tribe knows this too. He's just shilling for Hillary.
There’s no ideological debate here: Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe and former solicitor general Ted Olson — who were on opposite sides in Bush v. Gore among other cases — co-authored a memorandum in March 2008 detailing the above legal explanation in the context of John McCain’s eligibility.
There are exceptions for that and it’s written.
Nevertheless, Cruz’s mom was neither an Ambassador, officer or in the Service at the time of his birth.
In March, Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard and an adviser to Senator Barack Obama,
Democrat Libs are determined to get Trump the GOP nomination, which is curious. Perhaps Hillary and Trump have struck a deal on keeping each other’s secrets...a highly prized New York value among NY pols.
It’s a sad day when a candidate that wants to be seen as “Defender of the Constitution” won’t seek resolution to his own constitutional eligibility issue.
Do you have a cite for that being a stipulation? With a link?
Fair enough, but did ANY Republican leaders make an issue out of Obama’s eligibility?
No.
Democrats aren’t that stupid.
The point is that the definition of natural-born citizen is based on statutory law because it is not defined in the constitution. And Tribe knows that based on the statute that applies to Cruz, he is a natural-born citizen.
If they can have a Kenyan surely we can have a Cannuck.
Hey,Larry....it wasn’t *perjury* perjury,was it!
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