Cruz taking the office also depends (or depended, depending on how you want to look at it), on overcoming his CA birth certificate and circumstances of birth in the venues that ultimately decide - the electoral college (50 states, all of which have the power to deny him a ballot on eligibility grounds) and Congress - maybe SCOTUS too, if it suddenly decided it has a role.
how can this not be BLACK AND WHITE?
how could such smart founding fathers not address this clearly?
someone told me the Naturalization Act stated that someone like him could.
and for a country of immigrants, what an outdated rule.
my grandparents and my friends’ parents and grandparents who came from Italy were more patriotic than most “Americans” i know.