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Houston attorney asks Supreme Court to rule Ted Cruz ineligible for presidency
The Dallas Morning News ^ | January 15, 2016 | Bobby Blanchard

Posted on 01/15/2016 10:55:31 AM PST by justlittleoleme

Sen. Ted Cruz might finally get the chance to prove he is eligible to run for president once and for all.

A Houston-based attorney has filed a lawsuit against Cruz, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to settle whether Canadian-born Cruz is eligible for the presidency. Noting that the Iowa caucuses are just weeks away, the attorney asks the court to expedite the case as quickly as possible.

"This 229 year question has never been pled, presented to or finally decided by or resolved by the U. S. Supreme Court," wrote attorney Newton Schwartz in his lawsuit that he filed Thursday. "Only the U.S. Supreme Court can finally decide, determine judicially and settle this issue now."

He writes: "It is undisputed, by all legal scholars, there is no U.S. Supreme Court decision or precedent: determinative of the following agreed facts of this case and controversy. 'Natural born citizen' has never been defined."

Schwartz asked the court to rule that Cruz is not eligible to run for President.

The Cruz campaign declined to comment on the suit, but said Cruz has no connection Schwartz.

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birther; birthers; canadian; cruz; ineligible; naturalborncitizen; seeyouincourtted; trump
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To: butterdezillion
If Trump does file suit saying that Cruz is ineligible because he was born outside the US, Cruz could use as one of his arguments the fact that the HI state registrar would not verify the birth facts on Obama’s HI BC, even though statute says he MUST if the submitted facts match what is claimed on a LEGALLY VALID birth certificate.

Hmmm. [head-scratch] [ponder] Hmmmmm.

OK, I give up. What do you suppose the reply is when the Court looks dumbfounded on hearing this argument and asks the Cruz legal team "How is Dr. Onaka's verification conceivably relevant to the Constitutional claims that birth outside the U.S. renders Sen. Cruz ineligible?"

I'm sure you have a theory that will prove most entertaining.

121 posted on 01/15/2016 12:36:46 PM PST by CpnHook
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To: DBrow

Yeah because it would affect all of the anchor babies...


122 posted on 01/15/2016 12:42:40 PM PST by shotgun
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To: RginTN

Yeah right. Noooooooooo one would have ever thought about Cruz’s NBC status if Trump had not opened his mouth. This never would have come up. Suuuuuure. This proves Trump is a Democrat plant, and is working for Hillary.


123 posted on 01/15/2016 12:43:16 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: justlittleoleme

I believe that every candidate for president should be vetted in the very beginning. Look at the mess we find ourselves in by waiting.


124 posted on 01/15/2016 12:45:43 PM PST by Revel
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To: Revel

Well, Trump had no problem from the beginning, and actually said he had checked it out and he was perfectly legal to be president.


125 posted on 01/15/2016 12:47:52 PM PST by justlittleoleme (CRUZ OR LOSE)
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To: justlittleoleme

They are coming out of the woodwork.

But nary a word about the Kenyan and his fraudulent B.C.


126 posted on 01/15/2016 12:57:31 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: justlittleoleme

Re Jones V Bush the attorney has no standing.


127 posted on 01/15/2016 12:59:18 PM PST by Perdogg (Senator Ted Cruz - President 2016)
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To: justlittleoleme

Didnt Trump recently get some information from high powered legal types, new food for thought, as to facts hmmmmm

Isnt Cruz’s problem not just where he was born, but the fact his mother was something more than born in the USA. Being as his mother was actively voting in Canada ? etcetera


128 posted on 01/15/2016 1:01:16 PM PST by PraiseTheLord (have you seen the fema camps, shackle box cars, thousands of guillotines, stacks of coffins ~)
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To: justlittleoleme

Predictable


129 posted on 01/15/2016 1:01:43 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftists s the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: dragnet2; Kickass Conservative

Nah, trump the clinton donor bought up the birther nonsense. Typical of a lefty to indulge in nonsense


130 posted on 01/15/2016 1:03:06 PM PST by RginTN
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To: magellan
Under this view, Senator McCain was a citizen at birth. In 1937, to remove any doubt as to persons in Senator McCain's circumstances in the Canal Zone, Congress enacted 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1403(a), which declared that persons in Senator McCain's circumstances are citizens by virtue of their birth, thereby retroactively rendering Senator McCain a natural born citizen, if he was not one already.

Here is the faulty reasoning in that ruling...

Constitution of the United States Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization...

To claim 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1403(a) grants the status of natural born citizen upon anyone is an outright lie due to the fact that Congress can only pass laws governing naturalization. Congress doesn't have the ability to "render" anyone into a natural born citizens, they can only make a foreigner/alien into a US citizen.

If people can't understand something as simple as that then I really feel sorry for our nation and ts future.

131 posted on 01/15/2016 1:03:30 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: ColdSteelTalon
This is because under the law only one parent has to be a citizen to confer natural citizenship on their offspring.

Which law in particular are you talking about? USC 8?

132 posted on 01/15/2016 1:06:19 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: itsahoot

The law is there for you to read. Look it up yourself. Cruz is a nbc.
To say otherwise is leftwing silliness.


133 posted on 01/15/2016 1:06:26 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

Trump donated to hitlery & is a longtime friend of both clintons.

Thats trump’s history


134 posted on 01/15/2016 1:08:31 PM PST by RginTN
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To: justlittleoleme

Scroll further down. Looks like Louisiana punished him also.


135 posted on 01/15/2016 1:11:15 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: DBrow

Really? You would expect that outcome from the Supreme Court?

Not a chance.


136 posted on 01/15/2016 1:12:40 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: Kickass Conservative

Yep, Trump and Grayson are in cahoots.


137 posted on 01/15/2016 1:13:58 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: justlittleoleme

Obama Birther Soldier is a FreeRepublic Poster (Maj. Cook)

Soldier Challenges Deployment, Citing Obama's Birth (CBS News)

RIP, roaddog727

138 posted on 01/15/2016 1:14:00 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: gdani
I do not see how the Houston attorney has standing

Democrats can always find judges.

139 posted on 01/15/2016 1:14:06 PM PST by itsahoot ("Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences." Why is he winning?)
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To: CpnHook

Cruz can argue that Obama being allowed to be POTUS in spite of legal confirmation that he has no legally-valid US birth certificate sets a precedent for a foreign-born person to be POTUS.


140 posted on 01/15/2016 1:22:43 PM PST by butterdezillion
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