Cruz and Rubio to remain on ballot, Broward judge rules

While it’s gratifying to see all this interest in constitutionalism, watching Trump’s supporters going full bore paleocon fundie drama queen on Ted’s citizenship status and standing down when Trump tells the Iowa voters he’ll keep the EPA and their ethanol mandate looks more like they’re reading Alinsky than Madison.

Thank you for your polite response.

It doesn’t seem to me that any authority is going to tell anyone that they can’t run for president based on where or how they were born.

If by “authority” you mean any living public official (as opposed to the Constitution), it appears you may be correct.

The states, however, do make an attempt to do so when they require candidates to certify they are eligible for the office. It seems clear by that requirement the states must believe they have an interest to protect, but it also seems clear they will not bother to enforce that requirement if a particular candidate’s eligibility is challenged. Nor does it appear the Congress will take action to examine eligibility despite the statutory tool it gave itself for that specific purpose.

And all of that is a shame, because the founders expressly specified in the language of the day the requirements for who could fill the office of the President. Unfortunately, there are those today who say, “Candidate X is eligible because the founders did not spell out in clear terms that he isn’t eligible.”

Cruz and Rubio may be fine citizens and patriots, but we ignore the Constitution at our nation’s risk.

"No. They are knuckledraggers."

Yes because obviously someone that would not even be considered a citizen of the United States before the 1934 NATURALIZATION ACT is a natural born citizen of the USA. The founders clearly said that anyone born anywhere is a natural born US citizen.

Historians date the end of the Roman Empire to be the first day a not Roman took the title of Emperor. Future historians will do the same for us. The day a known not natural born citizen takes the presidency will be the day the Republic dies.

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