Posted on 04/10/2016 8:21:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Ted Cruz risks primary disqualification in New Jersey resulting from charges of ballot access fraud. A primary ballot disqualification hearing is scheduled by the Secretary of State for Monday, April 11 at 9:00 a.m. in Mercerville, New Jersey.
Washington D.C. Law Professor Victor Williams charges that Ted Cruz fraudulently certified his constitutional eligibility for office to gain ballot access. Williams demands that Cruz be disqualified from several late-primary ballots: "Cruz committed ballot access fraud in each state when he falsely swore that he was a 'natural born' American citizen." Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada and held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014. Cruz is a naturalized (not natural born) American citizen.
Williams' fraud charges had quick effect in New Jersey. Rather than accepting Cruz's ballot petition when filed last week, the Secretary of State ( Kim Guadagno) scheduled the unusual Administrative Law hearing for April 11. The Canadian-born Cruz must prove that he did not falsely certify his eligibility for office.
Cruz's ballot eligibility is also being challenged in California, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington.
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Here is a simple test. If Cruz had stayed in Canada since he was born there, would he be considered being a Canadian citizen today. If the answer is yes, then he is not qualified to be President of the USA.
At least we could have some fun with it. We have enough depressing things to deal with : )
Mosely, check when Glenn Beck joined Cruz and when he announced on his radio show that Trump’s wife was in a lesbian porno photo shoot.
And you know it is not a lie.
Actually I should have said up to 2 years ago before he renounced his Canadian citizenship.
There is no doubt that he would have lost his US citizenship, for failure to comply with 301(b), which requires five years continuous residence in the US, between the ages of 14 and 28. 1952 Naturalization Act.
Very interesting indeed. Thanks for that URL!
So maybe the question should be, if Cruz returned to Canada in 2011, with his Canadian BC, could he be recognized as a Canadian citizen.
Cruz had as much right to Cuban citizenship at the moment of his birth, as he had to US citizenship. Cuban law attaches citizenship to a child born abroad to one citizen parent.
Why are you being so dishonest? That 1790 law was REPEALED in 1795, and rewritten with the words “natural born” removed. As an ATTORNEY you must know that the repeal of a law means that it is as it never existed going forward from the effective date of repeal. Try claiming that the interstate Highway speed limit of 75 mph was still valid after the 55 mph limit was instituted and see if that gets you out of a ticket before it too was repealed and modified.
Any statutory definition of natural born citizen must comport with and be in furtherance of, the intent of the constitution and not the other way around. If the statute says that a Martian is forthwith defined as an Article II section 1, clause 5 NBC, than that statute unconstitutional.
AGAIN THAT 1790 Statute was REPEALED in 1795 and rewritten to remove the words “natural born.”. Cruz and people who make your argument repeatedly ignore and never seem to mention that fact.
I have run all of my opinions thru two constitutional attorneys who have argued and won cases before the Illinois Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court, who did not agree with me until they researched this matter. They now agree with me completely. They say that Cruz is even less of an NBC than Rubio is.
He doesn't have it today. He had a similar right in Cuba as he did in the US. At the moment of his birth, neither country knew he existed, and that's how things would remain if he or his parents didn't take an affirmative step of claiming the foreign (to Canada) citizenship.
Cruz's parents apparently presented his claim for US citizenship to the US authorities, who adjudicated the claim in light of the evidence presented. This is what is done for all births abroad when there is a claim of citizenship under an Act of Congress.
Cuba, unlike Canada and the US, expressly rejects dual citizenship. Now, that does not mean that being born a Canadian, or having a right to US citizenship automatically disqualifies Cruz from asserting his claim to Cuban citizenship. In fact, he might, as far as I know, be able to assert it today. But he didn't assert it at what is considered to be an "appropriate" age, typically shortly after reaching the age of majority, and so, as far as Cuba is concerned, he is "unknown," his claim never having been presented.
There is a very well organized scheme in place to remove the NBC clause either through neglect or misrepresentation. it is trivially easy to ignore or misrepresent the relevant case law. That's what courts are for.
“Cruz was Canadian at birth, and would have been so for his entire life, regardless of where in the world he lived, except for affirmatively renouncing his Canadian citizenship.”
Incorrect. Each country has its own laws.
Clue #1.
So if the Ambassador from Russia is flying over Japan on a airplane owned and flagged by Singapore on their way to Canada, and Mrs. Ambassador gives birth in U.S. airspace and then the plane lands in Canada, and the first place the baby touches land is Alaska
in which country does the child qualify as a citizen?
Potentially all of them.
The fact that under the laws of various countries, one might be a citizen of several countries is irrelevant.
Thanks very much for that.
I’ll take your legal advice over that of that other Jim ‘The Hammer’ Shapiro wannabe, lol
“Why are you being so dishonest? That 1790 law was REPEALED in 1795,”
First, the people who wrote the Constitution enacted the 1790 law.
So that proves that Congress has the power to define natural born citizen.
In 1795, they repealed the law.
But later the Congress kept changing the law and re-established the same law.
The law in effect when Ted Cruz was born went back to the original 1790 version, except for eliminating the distinction between father and mother.
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