Boss:
I ain’t gonna argue with you.
I respect each sides opinion but, maintain my own.
If Cruz can be born to an American Mother and a non-American father, outside of the country and not in a soveriegn territory or military base then he is not NBC.
Swear to God I want him to be. Brilliant? He is in his own category and the scale to measure hasn’t been invented.
Fact is, if Barry was bored to an underage chick who, at the time was unable to confer citizenship, by virtue of age and the status of the so called father, then it follows Cruz’s birth is at least dissolutive of specific definition.
I feel confident I could enlist the help of an anti-birther, Buckeye Texan, who would likely agree with cogent arguments.
Cruz was not born on American soil.
Cruz was born of one parent not an American Citizen.
Cruz was born of a divided citizenship.
That he will renounce his Canadian citizenship and has not addressed his Cuban citizenship ought to be note worthy.
He didn’t have a choice in those facts nor the events but, they exist.
One is Wholly one thing or another or parts of two feet in different areas.
Cruz is incredible and amazing. I’d want him as much as Rubio(maybe), as well Nicki Halley and Jindahl.
Maybe I’m falling to hard on the sword but, if I hold my standard for the opposition I find it difficult to act contrarily to my own desires.
Is my opinion only validated by some pedigree?
I note that many of us are not legal scholars, unlike the P resent occupying our White House.
Is he more qualified to express an opinion, while mine is marginal?
“If Cruz can be born to an American Mother and a non-American father, outside of the country and not in a soveriegn territory or military base then he is not NBC.”
Got a legal citation for that? I do, and it says he is a natural born citizen:
8 USC § 1401 - Nationals and citizens of United States at birth:
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(d) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a national, but not a citizen of the United States.
Looks like he’s a natural born citizen according to this author and I like his credentials as opposed to the usual internet blogger. Mark Levin likes him too. And I have much more faith in Mark Levin than your average anonymous sea lawyer/blogger.
CATO’s Ilya Shapiro:
Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was a special assistant/advisor to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule of law issues and practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. Shapiro has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, L.A. Times, USA Today, National Law Journal, Weekly Standard, New York Time Online, and National Review Online, and from 2004 to 2007 wrote the “Dispatches from Purple America” column for TCS Daily.com. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision and Telemundo, The Colbert Report, NPR, and American Public Media’s Marketplace. Shapiro has provided testimony to Congress and state legislatures and, as coordinator of Cato’s amicus brief program, filed more than 100 “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society and other groups, is a member of the Legal Studies Institute’s board of visitors at The Fund for American Studies, was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institute, and has been an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School. Before entering private practice, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, while living in Mississippi and traveling around the Deep South. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow). Shapiro is a member of the bars of New York, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a native speaker of English and Russian, is fluent in Spanish and French, and is proficient in Italian and Portuguese.
I have three NBC grandchildren who were all born to my American citizen daughter and her Caymanian husband on Grand Cayman Island. Each carries two passports: one is American, the other is Caymanian. They are NBC of each country.
Should one of them ever seek the office of POTUS, that one would simply need to renounce his or her Caymanian citizenship.
“That he will renounce his Canadian citizenship and has not addressed his Cuban citizenship
ought to be note worthy.”
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I guess the question becomes does he have Cuban citizenship? Do you know?
https://sites.google.com/site/ajustice999/cuba/cuban-constitution—chapter-ii—citizenship