The 20th amendment controls, I believe.
If the president doesn’t qualify, thent the VP becomes president until a president does qualify. I take that to mean a new election.
It would be interesting to see what would happen, that’s for sure. A little too much at stake for me to feel comfortable playing chicken though... Especially when Roberts is probably the deciding vote.
My guess is that Hillary would try to get Cruz’s name off the ballot when it’s too late for the R’s to replace him. Or have him disqualified before he receives any electoral votes (Dec 15th)
It’s occurred to me that the left has been wanting revenge for Bush v Gore for a long time. Hillary would be a hero of heroes if she did these very things. More incentive.
I just read an article from 2 days ago, on yahoo ( http://news.yahoo.com/ted-cruz-natural-born-citizen-eligible-serve-president-100207138—politics.html ), it talks about how reasonable and critical it is to sort out the definition of NBC, but says that “purported concerns about President Obama’s constitutional qualifications led “birthers” to file lawsuits challenging his natural-born credentials on the basis of a variety of far-fetched theories during the last several years.” The news media is going to legitimize the questions about Cruz’s eligibility in a way they never did with Obama. Cruz isn’t going to threaten the media into silence like Soros did for Obama, but instead the media will dutifully hound Cruz on Soros’ behalf. They’re setting the stage already.
20th Amendment Sct3: “if the President elect shall have failed to qualify”
Constitution of the United States ^ | January 23, 1933 | US Constitution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2145602/posts
Posted on Tue 09 Dec 2008 09:59:02 AM PST by Kevmo
Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.