This issue is going to damage the party. The party can deal with it too. Courts are not the only game in town.
This is AMERICA after all...
This crap needs to stop now.
Your headline is false.
I’m tired of hearing what the “public” perceives to believe, it’s what the Constitution says that matters. We’re getting away from that and it’s scary-—mob rule never works. BTW, the media and GOP Rinos despise Cruz, that’s good enough for me to vote for him!
I’ll bet at least 53% would also get other provisions of the Constitution wrong if you polled them. Just because they’re Republicans doesn’t make them a whole lot more educated in civics; they were educated by the same public school system as the other clueless masses.
Polls like this show why we have a written Constitution to provide a construct for governance. Making decisions by polls is like passing laws via American Idol like call-ins (although I fear we’re about to elect a President based somewhat on his reality-TV persona_.
It's good to know the words the Founders included to prevent divided loyalties still aren't that hard to understand.
Well, whether they should “be allowed to” is still up in the air somewhat.
Whether it’s a good idea to put someone in that position is entirely another story.
Well I am one of those lawyers who has actually argued the Constitution before SCOTUS and other Courts, bot Federal and State, that believes that the Constitution CLEARLY is meant to “live and breath” over time. (A long discussion for another day). If it didn’t, we’d be a “Nation” of warlords, quite simply.
My point is that to use a “strict construction” of the Constitution, (the wrng way to do it) Cruz is ineligible. Congress would not get to define “what a citizen is” for purposes of that provision.
That provision was to keep England (and others) from rigging elections and planting one of their own in our Presidency. That was it’s SOUL purpose. That is no longer relevant. A more expansive interpretation of the Constitution would be that Congress DOES get to define what a citizen is and, it seems with just a little concern, that Cruz is eligible. I don’t even like him and I think without question he is. Same for O’Dimwit
Would love to see SCOTUS resolve this once and for all but “Standing” is such a problem I don’t quite see how we get there without a potential Constitutional crisis.
So, scenario....mom takes a vacation, she’za U.S. citizen, so happens to be pregnant and drops the kid on foreign soil...the baby’s not an American?
Probably 95% believe Palin said “I can see Russia from my house”
Q26 Ted Cruz was born in Canada. Does this make you more or less likely to support him for the Republican nomination for President, or does it not make a difference?
More likely....................................................... 7%
Less likely ....................................................... 31%
Doesn't make a difference .............................. 57%
Not sure .......................................................... 6%
Q26: Ted Cruz was born in Canada. Does this make you more or less likely to support him, or does it not make a difference?
More: 7%
Less: 31%
No difference: 57%
Undecided: 6%
Earlier polls also had a majority supporting switching to single payer healthcare and 30%+ invading some mythical country.
Unless he changes his name constantly,claims to be born in Kenya, gets student aid as an Indonesian, and can forge an electronic pdf BC from Hawaii.
I’ve read through the link, but cannot find that 53% figure.
After the Kenyan, you’d think this poll would be 100 percent
Sure, can’t let babies born to Americans serving their country or working their businesses overseas be President but anchor babies dropped a week after their mothers carry them across the border can. An American woman on vacation in Japan better not have her baby if that kid would ever want to be President.
Put another way, since the birth stuff came out, Cruz in IA is 1-7-1.