Posted on 02/16/2016 5:09:18 PM PST by 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.
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Yes, two. One- a citizen. Two- a natural born citizen. Cruz is definitely NOT THAT.
Repeating your mantra doesn't make it any closer to being true. Present evidence or quit spamming.
How is Canadian law relevant to American law???
let’s say everybody has the same law as American law... I’m sure there are some countries in this world that have or could have if they wanted the same laws as the US on citizenship.. so let’s say its one those countries
would he be a natural born citizen of two countries? that sounds like an oxymoron being a natural born citizen of two countries it’s like saying you’re two people at the very least you’re saying you have two loyalties.. I was under the impression the whole point of natural citizen clause was to eliminate dual loyalties in the President
Does American law allow you to be a natural born citizen of two countries?..
who would drafting him if they went to war
who would he be a traitor to if they went to war
and again funny so so funny that this “one American parent and you are an natural born American no matter where you are born” ... that the Cruz people now are claiming ....never came up with the Obama birther.... no one, no one on this board ever said that when people going on about Obama
no one in seven years said about Obama’s birth... “hey that’s irrelevant you’re an American citizen if you have one American parent ...the law is so clear you can be born anywhere in the world and just need one American parents and your natural born American ....so why do you care about his birth certificate?”
I see a bunch of hypocrites on this board
RE: Does American law allow you to be a natural born citizen of two countries?..
No, that is why you have to ACTIVELY RENOUNCED Citizenship in one country.
That settles it for me - I guess I'm going to wait on Michael Bloomberg to announce since he's worth 40,000 million dollars.
“Natural born’ US citizen means, born of two US citizen parents birthed on US soil.
Only Cruz’s parents could give him ‘natural born’ US citizenship... and delivered him upon US soil.
It’s a self-evident truth.
Read the letters Jay and Washington exchanged.
Foreign national fathers and foreign born were their primary concern and why they inserted natural born citizen.
They wanted no foreign influences on the President.
Vattel was the source.
It has been confirmed in Minor vs Happersett and in the writings of the author of the 14th Amendment and is what I was taught in school before the communists took over education.
Good for him. Then let him sue or shut up.
The Kenyanesian’s foreign father was enough to make him ineligible. It does not matter where he was born.
Actually, there were some who did eventually come around to generally saying that (though perhaps not entirely specifically inclusive of all you just said).
I can't say I in any way led the charge, but after a while was persuaded by those who presented the legal reasoning. Long before I'd much heard of Cruz.
What there may have been which remained as challenge to the man who used to go around telling people he was born in Kenya before he didn't, was about other peculiarities.
With that I will sue attitude I bet Trump got beat up a lot in grade school.
Oh no! Wait. He did not go to public schools.
OMG! People are willing to trust the free world safety with the worlds biggest ego.
The sooner Trump sues the sooner it gets thrown out for lack of standing.
Trump could make the case that he is having to spend money to counter Cruz’s attacks. That the Cruz attacks may hurt him in the General election.
If Trump does not sue the Dems most likely will.
What is St. Donald waiting for? Put up or shut up.
>>>Yes, two. One- a citizen. Two- a natural born citizen.
You left out: naturalized citizen, makes three.
There’s only two: either born a citizen or citizen after birth via naturalization.
A naturalized citizen is just a citizen, so they are the same. And you just made my argument for me, and you don’t even know how or why.
>>>A naturalized citizen is just a citizen
So there is a ‘special citizen’? And born a citizen = naturalized citizen.
Sorry FRiend. You’re either born one or have to go through naturalization. There’s no third category.
What types of citizenship are there?Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesThere are two types of citizenship:
1. Citizenship from birth
2. Citizenship through naturalization
SOURCE: http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=66&page=236#
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years:
Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or periods of employment with the United States Government or with an international organization as that term is defined in section 288 of title 22 by such citizen parent, or any periods during which such citizen parent is physically present abroad as the dependent unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person (A) honorably serving with the Armed Forces of the United States, or (B) employed by the United States Government or an international organization as defined in section 288 of title 22, may be included in order to satisfy the physical- presence requirement of this paragraph. This proviso shall be applicable to persons born on or after December 24, 1952, to the same extent as if it had become effective in its present form on that date;
FROM THE ABOVE — Cruz is a CITIZEN AT BIRTH. He got his American passport without having to go through the naturalization process. Therefore, he IS a natural born American citizen.
I’d like to see Trump file a lawsuit and get around this law.
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