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Illinois judge agrees to hear lawsuit filed against Ted Cruz stating he should NOT be eligible (tr)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454032/Illinois-judge-agrees-hear-lawsuit-filed-against-Ted-Cruz-stating-NOT-eligible-run-president-born-Canada.html#ixzz40ah5Vv8N ^

Posted on 02/18/2016 9:58:26 PM PST by TigerClaws

The question of whether or not Ted Cruz can serve as president of the United States is heading to court.

A judge has agreed to hear a lawsuit filed against the presidential hopeful by Illinois voter Lawrence Joyce.

CNN reports that the case will be heard in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago on Friday in response to Joyce's claim that Cruz should not appear on the ballot for next month's Illinois primary because he was born in Canada.

Cruz has stated before that he is an American citizen despite being born in Canada and having a Cuban father because his mother is American.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454032/Illinois-judge-agrees-hear-lawsuit-filed-against-Ted-Cruz-stating-NOT-eligible-run-president-born-Canada.html#ixzz40ahKXbNs Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 911truthers; alexjones; birthers; canadian; cruz; nbc; tinfoilhat; uscitizen
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To: philman_36

Defining who is an alien. Well ok. That does not apply to those who are in classification of being a citizen at birth.

The wording which does apply to Cruz is "acquired" at birth, and "shall be citizens at birth". Hold fast to those concepts, carry them with you wherever you may roam within the codes and definitions.

The acquiring is from the U.S. citizen parent, although under law which not only acknowledges that it is AT BIRTH, but explicitly stipulates that it is from birth.

The first part of the above italicized sentence once again;

Persons born abroad to a U.S citizen parent are not in need of naturalization. They are already citizens, at birth.

Uh, excuse me, but the entire quote is defining those who are not citizens at birth, and who therefor if desiring to be a U.S. citizen, must indeed be naturalized.

I can hardly believe my own eyes reading the comments from birthers gone crusader against Cruz.

How about setting aside your own personal interests, even if those be along lines of "I said it, so now must search out evidence which will strengthen my case" (previous assertions) and try reading the codes and definitions while searching for the opposite of what you've been arguing.

Try to prove yourself wrong, try to see if what you've been saying can be falsified through taking a differing approach, a differing view, shorn of --- for lack of more apropos term perhaps--- what could be referred to as 'birther baggage'.

Perhaps; try taking my own responses, or else replies made on this thread by others which address the same issue more succinctly, and see if those can be seen to comport well with the statutes and definitions.

When it hits you between the eyes, keep reading, go over it again and again as many times as it takes ---

121 posted on 02/19/2016 11:05:05 AM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Word salad? Me? no.

And logic -- you, here? You are delusional.

122 posted on 02/19/2016 11:06:37 AM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: 4Zoltan

Actually you are almost right. Ted falls under subpar 7 of Section 301 sure enough but that doesn’t make him a natural born citizen. I fathered two children in London while stationed there. My wife was an English citizen at the time. We went to the Embassy to get the CRBA which proves their citizenship but my Commanding Officer advised me that my children could never become president. I’d like to think he was wrong but deep down I believe NATURAL is two citizen parents on U.S. soil. Natural means exactly that. Natural doesn’t require fulfilling certain statutes or laws. If you are born in the U.S. you are automatically issued a birth certificate - something that didn’t occur with my children.


123 posted on 02/19/2016 11:07:20 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Wat the hell are you talking about now?

You zero in on the only provisional sounding portion of what I just wrote to you while fully ignoring the meaning of all the rest?

This is really beginning to piss me off. It's like you're so dishonest with yourself -- within yourself in regards to this issue, now you're being disingenuous with me.

I'm going to need more than a sentence fragment. Try capturing a complete thought, perhaps more than one.

Quote that much (how much does it cost to copy and paste???) then maybe I could see what you may *think* you have.

Doubtless, its something I've already covered with you or the other guy just now recent.

124 posted on 02/19/2016 11:13:50 AM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: lentulusgracchus

LOL....works for me!


125 posted on 02/19/2016 11:20:03 AM PST by moonhawk (What would he do differently if he WAS a muslim?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Ok, how about DAMN WELL then included, as change of wording?

Better now? Can you deny that it did at that time include those wordings? Say it, and quite all this pathetic squirming around you've been doing in birther-baggage delusion-land.

You've got nothing but that (I can't even say the rest of the words on this forum, it's that bad).

126 posted on 02/19/2016 11:21:21 AM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: BlueDragon

Doesn’t “damn well” include what we have now.

Have we a situation where the Constitution is using an orphan term?

Well if it is, then yes we now have tea leaf reading on our hands, and I can say my tea leaf reading is as good as yours, and it (an assuredness factor) would speak persuasively to the minds of a lot of the members of the USSC. Which like it or not, our present Constitution has left to be the ultimate umpire short of something like Bork amendment.


127 posted on 02/19/2016 11:25:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: BlueDragon

Well hey! I’m looking for the holes and so would any other legal arguer. You surprised?!?


128 posted on 02/19/2016 11:26:56 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

But why THAT one? Hasn't that one already been beaten to death? It did originally express a view. An orginalist's view of what the troublesome phrase extended beyond only combination of birth within the territories (States) and of citizen parents.

But I ALREADY just went over that prior to yourself trying to now seeming appear to make the entire case on

It's like everything that could be understood about why jur soli was important in the first place is suddenly, completely forgotten.

129 posted on 02/19/2016 11:50:34 AM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: New Jersey Realist

“Ted falls under subpar 7 of Section 301 sure enough but that doesn’t make him a natural born citizen.”

That’s the debate and depending on who you ask he either is or he isn’t. It is something only the Supreme Court or a Constitutional amendment will finalize.

As to the “two citizen” parent requirement that is settled law. Recent court rulings have relied on the U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark to rule Obama a natural born citizen. The same reasoning would apply to Rubio, Jindal, Haley, etc. Even in 1898 when the case was decided it was understood that it made child born in the US to alien parents eligible to be President.


130 posted on 02/19/2016 11:59:40 AM PST by 4Zoltan
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To: BlueDragon
Just read that the Circuit Court Judge in Cook Co. (Maureen Ward Kirby) who has agreed to take the case has admitted that she doesn't even know if she has jurisdiction.

That ought to make the Trumpets confident. :)

131 posted on 02/19/2016 12:03:36 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: TigerClaws

Judge puts off until March 1. She needs to decide if she even has jurisdiction or must dismiss the complaint.

“Circuit Court Judge Maureen Ward Kirby said she was not sure she had jurisdiction, and set a March 1 hearing for arguments on whether to dismiss the complaint.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cruz-eligibility-idUSKCN0VS28N


132 posted on 02/19/2016 12:06:31 PM PST by 4Zoltan
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To: catfish1957

I guess it's honestly not so clear-cut just who does have jurisdiction?

Thanks for the ping, though.

I wonder -- is that an opening for attorneys representing Cruz to name who does have jurisdiction? If so they gotta' make it good. If just pushing it up to higher court within State of Illinois -- then what? A lurking ringer of a judge that's already been earmarked by whoever can get away with doing that? Landmine area ahead. Injun territory.

'Aaw man. Glad I'm not a lawyer and would have to figure out the dance moves, on top of the what would likely be among main legal principles. Those are relatively easy in comparison to all the rest. Codes of civil procedure and local curt rules alone can have landmines. And that's just the beginning of additional sorrows.

133 posted on 02/19/2016 12:32:06 PM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: BlueDragon
That does not apply to those who are in classification of being a citizen at birth.

Really?

Chapter 2 - Definition of Child for Citizenship and Naturalization
In general, a child for the citizenship and naturalization provisions is an unmarried person under 21 years of age who is:

The genetic, legitimated, [5] or adopted son or daughter of a U.S. citizen; or
The son or daughter of a non-genetic gestational U.S. citizen mother who is recognized by the relevant jurisdiction as the child's legal parent.

134 posted on 02/19/2016 1:37:14 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: BlueDragon
Persons born abroad to a U.S citizen parent are not in need of naturalization. They are already citizens, at birth.
If they follow the law they are indeed naturalized citizens. If they didn't have to go through some form of naturalization then why are there specific sections in the naturalization act that covers them? They have to be recognized first, don't they, and the law does that, doesn't it?
And even though they are citizens, if they or their parent/s followed the law and established such citizenship, they are not, however, natural born citizens.
135 posted on 02/19/2016 1:38:34 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: BlueDragon
Chapter 2 - Definition of Child for Citizenship and Naturalization

Read that close...the child needs both, citizenship and naturalization!

136 posted on 02/19/2016 1:43:53 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
This portion of definitions you are citing is applicable to children who are legitimated, not for children who's parents were married at time of the child's birth.

It begins with

As far as is known, Senator Cruz's parents were married prior to his birth. Married for some number of years...and having been married within the U.S. when his father was a legal resident alien who had been either; granted asylum, or at least had applied for it.

Whatever the case, Cruz was not born technically speaking ---a bastard child-- .

Or a red-headed step child. Or was adopted by either of his parents, or retarded (how about you? do you a propensity to slam ice cream cones where they don't belong? No, you say? Objection! arguing facts not in evidence!)

137 posted on 02/19/2016 4:46:02 PM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: philman_36
https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartH-Chapter2.html#S-B "Legitimated child".

Not necessarily applicable to those otherwise born legitimately


138 posted on 02/19/2016 4:54:19 PM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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To: BlueDragon
La-di-da-di-da...
Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
C. Table of General Provisions
A child born outside of the United States may acquire U.S. citizenship through various ways. The table below serves as a quick reference guide to the acquisition of citizenship provisions.

Genetic comes before legitimated as anyone can plainly see.
It must suck to ride a horse you've whipped hard to run fast only to have it die under your own whip.

And maybe you should lick your own melting ice cream cone and stop worrying after mine.

139 posted on 02/19/2016 4:59:49 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: eartick; Aliska; TigerClaws
So why does this Joyce guy, "an Illinois voter", have standing and all the citizens who tried to get the Obama situation heard in court were denied?

Because Obama is a n_____rian or Kenyan.


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140 posted on 02/19/2016 6:57:16 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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