There’s no legal category of citizenship called “naturalized at birth but not natural born”. It doesn’t exist. Cruz is absolutely eligible.
Cruz who is acting like he doesn’t want to be thrown into the brier patch surly knows that if he is not natural born citizen neither is OBAMA. To get a settled judgment for his situation also nullifies the current presidents term.
So it seems he or another current candidate WOULD have standing to obtain a decision from the SCOTUS. Rand Paul may since being removed from debate stage have the best standing thus far.
Remember Trumps sister was an appellate jurist She was a colleague and close friend of Sam Alito. They had up to his appointment to SC an identical record.
Thomas admitted the court was discussing the issue way back.
That’s funny, since just the other day they ran an article headlined, “Unfortunately, Ted Cruz Is Eligible”.
Heard on FOX News a while ago that Trump is playing “Born in the USA” at his rallies. He sticks it to Cruz and Bruce Springsteen at the same time. I love Cruz but concede you are probably right on this. The Supreme Court could save him but won’t because they’re afraid of being seen as political meddlers.
If Cruz became the nominee, we would see and hear the main stream media drum beat about his lack of eligibility times 10.
Obama was eligible, ANYONE is now eligible.
You are fighting for your country. Your constitution isn’t followed anymore. Better fight to win.
If 0bongo be legit den Cruz be too!
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BACKSTORY Cruz was born in Canada to a Canadian father and a Delaware-born American mother......thus making Cruz a dual Canadian-American citizen. Texans elected him to the US Senate not knowing he was a dual Canadian citizen.
It was not until a 2013 Dallas Morning News article that Cruz acknowledged his Canadian citizenry publicly. In 2014, the senator publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship altogether.
Cruz consistently depicted himself as "latino" Yet his family bgrnd indicates only his father is Spanish; his mother is of two nationalities, Italian and Irish from each of her parents.
Cruz ran in Texas as a latino (which has a wealth of latino votes). Cruz even convinced the Senate biographer that he was the first latino elected to the Senate (besides Rubio).
As the immigration issue grew negative in the world of politics, being known as a latino has lost its luster.
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WIKI The 1803 edition of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, perhaps the leading authority for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention for the terms used in the Constitution, noted that the natural born citizen clause is "a means of security against foreign influence" and that "[t]he admission of foreigners into our councils, consequently, cannot be too much guarded against."
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NOTE At the time, King George, and lordly England, were the colonists' boogeymen. It was feared the wealthy Brits could surreptitiously buy their way into our new country's councils and wreak havoc.
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OLD THINGS SEEM SUDDENLY NEW AGAIN Cruz's wife is a Goldman Sachs exec.
Mrs Cruz served on the North American Union task force, and supported their report called---'Building a North American Community."
The North/South border effort was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.
Translated into English, that means forget US sovereignty....just eradicate US borders.
Canada is under the jurisdiction of England.
Quite the contrary -- the fact remains, Cruz is eligible. Under the Nationalities Act, his mother's status as an American citizen who had been an American citizen for at lest 10 years, at lest 5 of them since the age of 14, makes her son a natural-born citizen, regardless of his place of birth.
This means Cruz is eligible regardless, but it makes 0bama's place of birth critical, since his mom was only 18 when he was born, and therefore could not have been a citizen for at least five years after the age of 14.
Mark Levin explained all this a week or so ago.
This entire issue is a distraction to keep us from discussing actual issues. it shows how afraid of Cruz the Establishment and the Trumpkins are. They know that if their candidates' records are exposed, they'll lose.
The article is sewing a lie in the hope that it sticks with the uninformed voters and in pursuit of the Democrat pipe dream of never having to face Ted Cruz on the Presidential debate stage.
The Constitution leaves it for the Congress to define “natural born” citizenship.
Congress has written into law that anyone born to a citizen of the United States outside the territory of the United States is a natural born citizen. Ted Cruz clearly meets that criteria as his mother was born and bred in the United States and met all of the specified criteria pass natural born citizenship to him.
This was already addressed when John McCain (born in the Panama Canal Zone) was the nominee.
What??
Cruz hedges on whether he is a natural born citizen in 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUzQ9NgV7I
Even if he does win the nomination, I`ll never vote for any candidate that places other laws and the concepts of them, over our Natural Law right to make our own laws and their concepts.
I base this on the heart of Natural Law`s practical implementation, the right of the Sovereign Citizen to lend some of that sovereignty in a compact with the state, thereby creating a Republic based on their own unique interpretations of law.
Quit posting this crap. You give them hits on their websites and that means money in their pockets. Please stop posting their drivel.
Summary of article:
Ted Cruz was naturalized at birth, but was not natural born.
Wapo logic
“Instead, Cruz was naturalized at birth.”
Hmmm.
I’ll be, a really good article except that it believes Obama is natural born.
By WaPo’s logic, and some of the fringe on FR, then Obama is barred from being President and Hillary as well because blacks and women weren’t eligible voters, let alone to hold office in 1790.
Let it go.