Posted on 01/08/2016 12:46:17 PM PST by jimbo123
Ted Cruz 'birther' row may go to court as Democrat gets ready for case focusing on Cruz's MOTHER (and his wife weighs in).
Republican presidential runner-up Ted Cruz's eligibility in the 2016 nomination race is continuing to split open on the campaign trail.
Cruz, a first-term Texas senator, is not only taking fire from prominent Republicans such as front-runner Donald Trump and 2008 GOP nominee John McCain over his claims of U.S. citizenship - but he now faces a potential lawsuit by a Democratic congressman.
Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, an attorney, said this week he will sue to challenge Cruz's eligibility for the presidency if the senator somehow overtakes Trump and wins the GOP presidential nomination.
Cruz is currently in second place in national polls on the GOP primary, according to an average compiled by Real Clear Politics - but he is leading by a modest margin in Iowa, where the first contest of the season comes with caucuses on Feb. 1.
Cruz was born in Canada in 1970 to a mother who was a U.S. citizen - giving him 'natural born' citizenship under the U.S. Constitution - although there is little legal precedent for that theory being tested on a presidential nominee.
But Grayson says Eleanor Cruz may have forfeited her U.S. citizenship by taking a Canadian oath of citizenship - as specified in Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. He went on to say that there is no documented evidence that she was in fact born in the United States.
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Uh oh.....Ted, please put this garbage to rest.
I agree. Ted needs to get this nonsense under control right away and start taking this seriously.
NON STORY unless you want to be called a 'birther'!
Alan Grayson is a wife beating moron without a leg to stand on. I can not believe you folks post this bs.
Did Trump know this in advance of his statement?
I hope this crazy loon, Grayson, isn’t allowed to buy firearms. Obonzo needs to make sure this freak is on some of his government’s “lists”.
Looks like they were going to live and die Canadians.
And.....30 years later (2005), daddy opts for USA citizenship? The whole thing makes little sense.
He could know. The Dem run State Department could have fed him with that info. It would be game set match for Cruz if won the nom for Hillary or whoever.
I see that John McCain is retreating from yesterday’s statement. Seems that its not hurting Ted Cruz and may indeed be helping him despite the “concerns” of a few FReepers.
I have been thinking this all along! Get it out now!
Probably, which is why he responded to the reporter’s question in that fashion. This way he raised the subject without actually raising the subject. And it is way better to get this out of the way now, then go through this as the VP candidate or actual nominee.
Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told U.S. News and World Report Wednesday that a potential lawsuit by Grayson is ‘patent nonsense,’ and added that he has examined Eleanor Cruz’s U.S. birth certificate and maintained that she never became a Canadian citizen.
‘Eleanor Cruz, like Ted Cruz, has never breathed a single breath of her life not being a U.S. citizen,’ Tyler told the magazine, adding that Grayson would not even have legal standing to bring a lawsuit against Cruz.
I saw the 1940 Census which includes her, assuming I found the right one. They can be wrong at times, but it says she was born in DE.
Yep, latest polling shows it’s not hurting neither Cruz nor Trump.
"No documented evidence that she was in fact born in the United States"?
Believe it. They’ll jump all over the next stupid smear too.
“I agree. Ted needs to get this nonsense under control right away and start taking this seriously.”
He has taken it seriously. What more do you suggest he do?
Even Snopes agrees with Cruz.
Somebody can check this but it is my understanding that Canada does not require its citizens to renounce their previous citizenship, which is how Ted got dual citizenship.
“Standing” is court doctrine to whittle down lawsuits they don’t want to hear. It’s not law. Any judge can waive this or make something up and hear a case. Plenty of liberal judges out there that were put in place by Obama who would entertain such a suit.
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