Posted on 07/21/2013 5:34:04 PM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
Since Canadian born Ted Cruz has emerged on the scene in Washington as a future presidential candidate for 2016, attention has turned to whether he is Constitutionally eligible for Article 2 Section 1, the presidential qualification clause. This is what we know. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Many say that disqualifies him to be eligible for the presidency. Enter former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I came across an interview she did with Fox News's Chris Wallace in February of 2010. During the interview Wallace brought up the fact that since she was born in Canada, she wasn't eligible to be president. Here is the transcript:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/21/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-future-gop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529
"GRANHOLM: No, I’m totally focused this year on creating every single job I can until the last moment. December 31st at midnight is when I’ll stop. So I have no idea what I’m going to do next, but I’m not going to run for president. I can tell you that.
WALLACE: Yes, that’s true. We should point out Governor Granholm is a Canadian and cannot run for president.
GRANHOLM: I’m American. I’ve got dual citizenship.”
With that said, I went to the biography of Jennifer Granholm and found that she was born to one American citizen and is indeed a dual Citizen who became 'NATURALIZED' as a U.S. Citizen in 1980 at the age of 21. Now this raises a question. How can a naturalized U.S. Citizen become president of the United States?
Continued below.
I’ll just answer my own question: because there is no settled law re: NBC. Vattel, et.al. none of these became precedent that any judge respected.
If Cruz can file with 50 (or 57) Secretaries of State and get on the ballot, then NBC is dead, but our Republic is saved. If he gets even ONE rejection from Soros’ SOS project, then such rejection opens up the numerous lawsuits protesting zero’s filing for ‘08 as legitimate and could negate Zero’s reign.
It’s a win-win, if you might be CONSERVATIVE and not a member of the STUPID party.
Ted Cruz was born “Rafael Edward Cruz” December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
His mother is US citizen Eleanor Darragh.
His father is Cuban citizen Rafael B. Cruz. (naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2005)
Eleanor Darragh and Rafael B. Cruz were residents of Canada for at least four years from 1970, possibly earlier, until 1974. They conducted business there as Rafael B. Cruz and Associates, Ltd.
Links to biographical info
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/04/15/ted-cruz-texas-answer-to-marco-rubio/
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Cruz-s-life-defies-simplification-3946523.php
www.mylife.com/l-rafael-cruz-e151894652160
Granholm was born in Canada to two Canadian citizens.
If she had at least one citizen parent, or had been born in the US, she would be eligible.
Did you ping a bunch of the posters on the wild and crazy thread yet? They need to see this.
Cruz is eligible should he decide to run.
This has been discussed extensively.
No, there is not a US Supreme Court case confirming that persons born US citizens abroad are eligible. But the weight of our legal history supports it. And I’m not aware of any real contemporary legal scholar that says Cruz isn’t eligible.
If he were to run, someone would undoubtedly file a lawsuit. It might well reach the Supreme Court. And they would declare that he’s eligible.
You have evidence of Chester Arthur hiding his non citizen Dad? Show it.
I’ll stop shaking my head the moment you present someone, anyone, who read that post from beginning to end thick with text without line or paragraph breaks.
Cold Case Posse Supporter is a good freeper.
The Constitution is more important that politics.
That’s with 2 US citizen parents.
What about 1 US citizen parent and one parent of another nationality.
Good grief Dusty. Why don’t you just provide a link next time!!
He’s president because he got more Electoral votes than Mitt Romney. His eligibility to run for president and to be president has been upheld by many courts at every level of the judiciary and every single member of Congress voted to certify his Electoral votes (twice), without objection. No court has ever ruled him to be ineligible and no act of Congress has challenged his eligibility.
An example of a federal court ruling:
“Rhodes v MacDonald, US District Court Judge Clay D. Land: “A spurious claim questioning the president’s constitutional legitimacy may be protected by the First Amendment, but a Court’s placement of its imprimatur upon a claim that is so lacking in factual support that it is frivolous would undoubtedly disserve the public interest.”—US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, September 16, 2009.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19809978/RHODES-v-MacDONALD-13-ORDER-denying-3-Motion-for-TRO-granting-8-Motion-to-Dismiss-Ordered-by-Judge-Clay-D-Land-on-09162009-CGC-Entered-0
And an example of a state court ruling: “Allen v Obama, Arizona Superior Court Judge Richard E. Gordon: “Arizona courts are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent in construing the United States Constitution, and this precedent fully supports that President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution and thus qualified to hold the office of President. Contrary to Plaintiff’s assertion, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), does not hold otherwise.”—Pima County Superior Court, Tuscon, Arizona, March 7, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/84531299/AZ-2012-03-07-Allen-v-Obama-C20121317-ORDER-Dismissing-Complaint
CCPS is not posting crap.
He’s posting accurate and relevant facts.
You don’t like them, that’s your problem.
The real difficulty here is that if one part of the Constitution “doesn’t matter” any more, then it’s all up for grabs, every last sentence of it, including the Bill of Rights.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
That’s my position also. I think there are some people here who are simply anti-Hispanic.
Cruz is a great conservative, he’s not a Rubio, and, since we have a Marxist Muslim Kenyan sitting in the Oval Office, I don’t give a flying &*%*^^ whether a rock solid conservative meets the definition of “natural-born” or NOT.
Aside from a handful of racist troglodyte conservatives who will complain about Cruz anyway? The mainstream media after shielding that lying bastard in the Oval Office for the past 7 years? I think not. So the author of this piece can just go sit on it!!!
The real difficulty here is that if one part of the Constitution “doesn’t matter” any more, then it’s all up for grabs, every last sentence of it, including the Bill of Rights.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
“You’re wrong. Cruz’ parents were both American citizens living Calgary at the time”.
Oh Really? Tell me then. Why did his Cuban born father naturalize as a U.S. Citizen back in 2005 if he was already an American Citizen? I await your answer!
He’s not a troll, idiot.
Find NBC for me.
And don’t quote some bizarre letter from the 1800’s.
Yeah, nothing written by dead white male slave owners is of any use at all.
Cruz’ father was a Cuban national when Cruz was born; his father did not naturalize as a US citizen until 2005.
You ought to study up.
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