If Donald Trump wants to sue Ted Cruz for being born in Canada, he better do it soon

Business Insider ^ | 02/16/2016 | Allan Smith

[SeekAndFind]

If Republican presidential front-runner and business mogul Donald Trump wants to sue Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), over his eligibility to run for president, he's going to have to do so within days.

Wait any longer, and it might be too late to matter.

In a lengthy Facebook post Trump wrote Monday, the GOP front-runner called Cruz "the single biggest liar I've ever come across" and "a totally unstable individual."

Then Trump threatened to file a lawsuit against Cruz claiming he is ineligible to run for president because he was born in Canada.

Legal experts said Trump must act quickly if he's serious.

"It could be that Super Tuesday will end the race, and if he doesn't do it before Super Tuesday then the race is effectively over," Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at UCLA, told Business Insider. "If he's going to challenge Cruz's eligibility, he should do so soon."

Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California at Irvine, agreed, telling Business Insider in an email that, "The longer he waits, the more likely a court would say he's waited too long."

ted cruzAP Photo/John BazemoreTed Cruz.

Although most legal experts believe that Cruz is eligible for the presidency because his mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth, federal courts have never ruled on a presidential candidate's eligibility based on the Constitution's "natural-born" citizen requirement.

The potential Trump lawsuit wouldn't be the first challenging the eligibility of a candidate, however.

Winkler said Trump will need to prove that he is being "injured" by Cruz being in the race in order to show he has "standing" to sue. He added that courts have ruled that candidates would be injured -- which would involve losing votes and/or money -- because of an ineligible candidate.

[Lower55]

“But that is the nature of a troll.”

Not a troll, just not a mind numb robot pushover.
You believe what you want, no matter what it does to the country, and I’ll believe what I want. Because, you will never change my mind on the subject. Never.

[Lower55]

“What can be stated as fact and without any vitriol is that many court decisions over the last nine years have ruled that anyone who qualifies as a “Citizen of the United States at Birth” also qualifies as a “natural born citizen.””

The Court also ruled that men can marry men, and that you can be forced to buy a product from a private company. So much for relying on the Court for fodder to back up foreigners as natural born citizens.

[Nero Germanicus]

You don’t have to vote for any foreigner that you don’t think is eligible.

In 1790, the Founding Fathers in the first Congress decided that: “the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as NATURAL BORN CITIZENS: provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States.”

http://www.indiana.edu/~kdhist/H105-documents-web/week08/naturalization1790.html

I’ll go with the Original Intent of the Founders.

[D-fendr]

>>Having a Citizen mom gets you 33% ...gets you 66% ... My thoughts made simple. Nothing will convince me otherwise.

Of course, you can have whatever private criteria or basis you wish to choose to determine your vote.