Posted on 02/12/2016 12:57:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump on Friday threatened to sue Ted Cruz for "not being a natural born citizen" if the Texas senator "doesn't clean up his act" and stop running negative ads against him.
"If @TedCruz doesn't clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen," he tweeted.
If @TedCruz doesn't clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen.
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2016
Trump has previously argued that if Cruz won the Republican nomination, Democrats would argue that the Canada-born Texas senator was ineligible for the presidency. Last month, Trump asked a rally if he should sue Cruz "just for fun" over the issue.
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Trump is such a scumbag. He thinks he can intimidate Cruz to stop attacking him. His threats are not going to work.
I don’t think it’s premature because the assumption is that a person be qualified. Damages are lost delegates and money spent on advertising against an unqualified candidate, which can be in the millions.
Is Cruz laying in the weeds just waiting to put this issue to rest? Maybe, I can’t tell. He may need someone to sue in order to put it to rest, I don’t know. Constitutional scholars with a lot more knowledge than I disagree on the issue.
Trump isn’t going to sue, read his language. He didn’t say I’m going to sue, he said “I have standing to sue”.
He wants to raise suspicion, which is a smart move politically.
It’s up to Cruz to decide how to handle that.
Commenting on the wrong thread? What about the subject?
Well, I wouldn't want to see activist judges create law and bounce Cruz in a state or two and throw the election to the Dems. Let's face it, there are only a couple states in play that swing the election and that's a risk not worth taking.
Even if he has standing the convention would be over by the time this came to trial.
THAT is my fear about Cruz and the birther issue.
Some Democrat with standing will bring it up after he wins, and we’ll go into Constitutional limbo while the Federal courts kick it around for months.
More hot air from the windbag.
In 2011 Trump said his investigators found amazing things about Obama
4+ years ago Trump promised to make public that data...
Nothing
Its called FOS
The subject is the liberal Trump blowing smoke about suing Senator Cruz. The reason the liberal Trump won’t do it is because he would lose. Senator Cruz is eligible and Trumnp knows it. His big loud show has fooled many people, not me.
I’m sorry, all this “Art of the Deal” genius strategy you folks have swallowed is really starting to ring hollow. Genius? Doubt it. Attention whore? Definitely. And, here is one Cruz supporter who is begging Trump to sue. Please do it, unless Trump is a pussy.
I agree. I wish it were settled before Cruz declared. But whatever it takes to get it over and done with, let’s do it!
The courts have been dodging this issue because they let an usurper into office already.
If forced to make a decision they will find for the new definition of simply being born a citizen to cover themselves and Obama.
The new definiton makes every anchor baby and Winston Churchill eligible, along with some Middle East and European royalty.
One is NATURALLY a US citizen when one cannot be anything else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Natural born citizen.
That’s what it meant to the men who used the phrase and they did not think they needed to define it as it has a definition to those who can think logically and know history.
“Cruz supporters say Trump ought to sue to get the issue settled, then when Trump threatens to sue, they acuse him of grandstanding. I suppose those aren’t necessarily incongruous positions, but the combination does ring of goading somebody into doing something so you can ridicule him for it.”
You nailed it!
It’s also Trump getting headlines and bringing attention to Cruz’s slimy campaign. All art of the deal tactics: make a claim to get attention but the real attention is to Cruz’s ads and so forth. Smart Trump.
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Not a surprise in the slightest coming from a Trump supporter.
Those not in the Trump camp might turn this around and suggest that Trump’s sound and fury signifying nothing is doing himself harm.
Once Obama is safely out of office and the danger of a true constitutional crisis has passed, I suspect the truth will start to become clearer.
Note the following passage from that case: "A party facing prospective injury has standing to sue where the threatened injury is real, immediate, and direct. Los Angeles v. Lyons , 461 U. S. 95, 102 (1983); see also Babbitt v. Farm Workers , 442 U. S. 289, 298 (1979) (A plaintiff may challenge the prospective operation of a statute that presents a realistic and impending threat of direct injury). Davis faced such an injury from the opera- tion of §319(a) when he filed suit. Davis had declared his candidacy and his intent to spend more than $350,000 of personal funds in the general election campaign whose onset was rapidly approaching."
One does not have to be a ‘Constitutional Scholar’ in order to be able to discern the meaning of its (the Constitution) words.
Most of its precepts are simple enough that any person of average intelligence with an ability to read English can comprehend the intent of its Authors.
I thought the only people with standing in regard to this particular issue are the electoral college members.
Agree! I think this is building to a knock-down drag-out battle at one of these debates...someone has to put this fool in his place!
Also, as the number of candidates is reduced there will be more time for detailed answers on policy differences...this will not bode well for Trump and his sound-bite pablum...
You make these idle threats with your YUGE mouth but never do anything, nothing nada.
So, come on, do it hinge jaw, sue. That is all you New Yawk yankee pigs know how to do.
I give you 2 days and you will back down. Heck, 1 day and you will move on to something else......effing blowhard.
We're a long way from the process as envisioned by the founders. First presidential primary was held in 1921. Before that, parties chose nominees in smoky backrooms.
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