Posted on 01/12/2016 3:57:43 PM PST by reegs
Cruz has long strained to avoid directly criticize the Republican front-runner. But on Tuesday, Cruz mused that it's "interesting" that some left-wing legal scholars are providing validation to Trump's claim.
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Cruz suggested on Howie Carr's Tuesday radio show that those scholars were working on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner.
"She and Donald know each other well," Cruz said of Clinton. "And I do think it's interesting that Hillary Clinton's key supporters are doing everything they can to echo Donald's attacks on me. We've seen in the past couple elections where the Democrats worked very hard to ensure that they face the Republican they most wanted to face in the general election."
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He added: "My focus is to not engage in the mudslinging."
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Cruz needs to punch back. Trump can’t have a VP unwilling to defend himself.
Had Cruz been born in 1921 under the identical birth circumstances that he was born into in 1970, than he would not even have been a US citizen. The Cable Act, passed in 1922, allowed a US citizen woman, married to a foreign national and who gives birth in a foreign country, to transmit US citizenship onto the newborn child for the first time.
Article II, Section I clause 5, was ratified in 1791 with the rest of the constitution, long before the Cable Act.. Article I has not been modified by any subsequent amendment. Accordingly, the original intent and meaning of Article II stands absent any such constitutional amendment.
The purpose of Article II, Section I clause 5 was to prevent undue foreign influence on the office of the presidency, PARTICULARLY thru a father owing allegiance to a foreign sovereignty. The framers took their definition for NBC from Emmerich De Vattel Law of Nations, the 212th paragraph of which was quoted in its entirety in the 1814 Venus Merchantman SCOTUS decision. The Law of Nations is referred to in Article I of the constitution. That definition referred to an NBC as being born of two citizen parents and born on the soil of the nation. That definition was cited in the 1868 case of Minor vs Hapersett, and Wong Kim Ark vs US. De Vattel has been cited and accepted in dozens of SCOTUS and federal lower court rulings. The framers were patriarchs who believed that the citizenship of the children followed the citizenship of the father.
The authors of the 14th amendment, Senators Howard Jacob and Rep. Bingham also defined an NBC in similar terms.
Obama is the very embodiment and personification of the REASON that the framers put those protections into the constitution. By ignoring it, we have opened ourselves to the anti American and unconstitutional tyranny that Obama poses to our constitutional republic.
Ted Cruz is head and shoulders the best candidate in the race. He is a patriot who loves this country and its people. He is intellectually and philosophically superior to ANYONE else in the race. As much as I admire him, He CANNOT be considered a natural born citizen, as he is a citizen by statute. He was born with THREE countries (The US, Canada, and Cuba thru his father) having a legitimate claim on his allegiance from birth, whether he wanted it or not. I believe in the constitution and the rule of law, NOT in the cult of personality. We should not yield to the same dark impulses of expediency and delusion that gave us the tyrannical sociopathic usurper demagogue Obama.
I’m sure Trump’s supporters will be outraged nonetheless, but for ‘punching back’ this is pretty tame.
Trump should know that Cruz cannot bring suit against himself. Nor can a federal court issue an advisory opinion.
Trump is apparently the only candidate in the race “concerned” about this, and since only a candidate can bring suit, GO FOR IT, DONALD!
Well that’s odd because in 1790 he would have been a natural born citizen.
Day 8 in the news....there’s a lot of people concerned...none more than Ted...
Trump is a moron when it comes to the Constitution or Article III courts. Evidence his stance on Kelo.
I didn’t realize there was a Vice Press Secretary.
Good for him glad to hear it.
Trump, if he wins, is going to stab “fellow conservatives” in the back and select Kasich. Don’t say you were not warned.
Outraged? Cruz needs to learn to fight back. Turning the other cheek
as often as he has has made his face sore.
It is also an indication that his eligibility responses are not working.
Put down the crack pipe.
Harsh. Cruz may want to be a Supreme instead. Or better, Senate Majority Leader.
Cruz jumps the shark! lol
Cruz jumps the shark! lol
Here’s a hypothetical to ponder:
If Trump had decided to sit this election out and Ted Cruz was leading the polls and Hillary, concerned with her favorability vs. Cruz, started this birther nonsense, I wonder how many on this board would be calling her desperate, unhinged, unable to debate on policy and needed to result to a smear campaign?
lolz.
Kelo exposed a weakness in the eminent domain laws in the majority of the states that allowed the use of eminent domain for "economic development. That is why all the courts sided with the defendants.
Obviously, afterwards 44 states cleaned up their laws.
Legally at the time, it was allowable under the law.
Ethically and morally, well that is a different story.
Come on CJ.
You know full well if Cruz is the nominee, the rats will make this a very
big issue of this. Think of this as practice for Cruz.
Cruz needs to find the best way to address it.
And this is the time to do it.
Not if and when he is the nominee.
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