Posted on 02/19/2016 6:36:53 AM PST by Enlightened1
Here is what the Constitution says about who can be president:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The problem is the Constitution doesn't define "natural born Citizen." Neither does any current law. And no one has ever brought a court case to decisively settle the question as a matter of US law.
There are three ways someone can be a US citizen. He can be born in the US (regardless of who his parents are). He can be born outside the US to at least one US citizen parent, as long as certain criteria are met (those criteria are set by federal law and have been changed over time). Or he can immigrate here and then successfully apply for citizenship, a process called naturalization.
Everyone agrees that the first category of people are natural-born citizens. Everyone agrees that the third category of people are not natural-born citizens (regardless of how unfair it might be that immigrants can't be president). But Ted Cruz is in the middle category, and this is where the meaning of "natural born" starts to get fuzzy.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
He is still in the race so he can legitimately sign on as a plaintiff to both Cruz and Rubio qualification law suits. That’s his only purpose at this time.
Bush drops out these two are disqualified that leaves Kasick Mr T and the good Doctor.
if Cruz had never left Canada for the first 30 years of his life and had never been to the USA he could still become President if he just stepped across the border and changed his residency for 14 years and then talked enough people into voting for him all because his mother was born in the USA.. is this a great country or what?
Too lazy to click to the link - is there an actual lawsuit filed or is this just more FUD?
That's RACIS!
LMAO
It’s the real deal.
SO IT BEGINS.
BRING IT ON!
how is he supposed to put it to bed when it ultimately requires a court to rule on which can’t happen until one is actually a candidate and even then not until someone with standing files a suit?
that’s got to be the stupidest reason I’ve ever heard to not support a candidate! “I’m pulling my support because this guy didn’t deal with an issue that he had no possible avenue to deal with”
Is he going to be indicted in 24 business hours?
[Other than to sell books. Why is Ben Carson still in the race?]
To continue to keep votes from going to Cruz.
AKA: Payback for Iowa
Exactly. He’s sticking around until after SEC states vote.
I agree. Getting this nonsense out of the way will help Cruz and make Trump look like even more if a Lefty buffoon.
So do I. Let's settle this crap.
No peon has "standing" to question a candidate's bona fides.
Only someone running for the same office might (or might not) have standing.
Panamanian born McCain certainly wasn't going to open that can of worms!
letting the Democrats take advantage of it after a potential Cruz nomination, when it’d be too late
Either resolve it now, in court, or Cruz should drop out.
But the chooming Kenyan Mulatto gets a pass. How ironic...
And the Supreme Court is never going to define it. They will not touch this question and Cruz will be on the ballot.
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