The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is a superior court. They affirmed the ruling of the trial court that Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen.
You are correct. I guess the issue is dead in Pennsylvania, but live for now in many more States.
It was wishful thinking on my part that there was a level of court remaining in PA. I just can’t wrap my head around judges who legislate from the bench and think they can make the Constitution mean whatever they say it means. Such judges are a danger to the fabric of America. I grew up thinking that America is a Nation of Laws and its hard to accept that the law doesn’t matter, almost like living in a banana republic.
University of Chicago Law Professor Eric Posner puts the case directly:
“To naturalize an alien is to confer citizenship status but not to somehow convert him to having been born in America; similarly, to confer citizenship by statute to someone born abroad to an American parent is not the same thing as retroactively making that person born in this country—making him natural born—which would be impossible.”
Eric Posner, Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible To Be President, Slate, Feb. 8, 2016.
Reality, Until a federal Court chimes in it is nothing but political posturing.
If Cruz is the Nominee (extremely unlikely) then in October a single liberal federal judge will grant an injunction keeping him off the ballot in November. The USSC is locked at 4-4, so Hillary runs unopposed. The odds of this are 100 percent.
Why would anyone think Clinton would give Cruz a free citizenship pass? If foreign birth is not a disqualifier, why all the hoopla during the last two elections?