Posted on 04/12/2016 4:48:11 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas meets the criteria to be considered a “natural born citizen” and can run in New Jersey’s Republican presidential primary on June 7, an administrative law judge ruled Tuesday.
Judge Jeff Masin’s decision will now go to Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, who also serves as New Jersey’s secretary of state, for consideration. She can choose to accept it in full or in part, or reject it.
Masin heard arguments Monday on two challenges to Cruz’s eligibility to run for president. In both cases, the challengers argued that, because Cruz was born in Canada, he is not a natural born citizen, one of three constitutional requirements for the presidency.
Cruz, 45, was born in Calgary, Alberta. His mother, a U.S. citizen, was born in Delaware. His father was born in Cuba. Cruz has said that a child of a U.S. citizen is automatically granted citizenship at birth and is therefore “natural born.”
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Good point.
I maintain that there are very few Americans who would hold against Cruz, whether they would ever vote for him or not, the fact that he was born to an American citizen mother, left Canada at age THREE and has lived continuously in the U.S. for the last 42 years.
That would be easy, by the way, "East shall be considered to be West" takes care of it, or "rising shall be considered to be setting." Then, as a matter of law, the sun would rise in the west!
Yeah, there's a lot of that goin' around...
I'm reasonable and I read every last word despite it taking more than a few minutes. What HarleyLady27 has posted is, in my opinion, one of the best definitive essays on this subject of Cruz eligibility which is why I'm pinging our Esteemed Founder to it.
Double digit dittos.
“Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009, happened with the complete cooperation of both parties.
They want the Constitution changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution”
You sir are the winner! The elite have been trying to destroy the clause for quite some time. Obama basically killed the clause, but if any life was left in it the Cruzers are going to make sure to finish it off.
Thanks guys, now we are all going to learn what the clause was meant to prevent.
Anyone who thinks a natural born citizen can have dual citizenship misses the point if natural born citizen. Quite simply you cannot be both a dual citizen and a natural born cotizen of the United States.
Did I need to say why his tour took him in these places?
I read every word and have bookmarked it for future reference when I need it.....and I know I'll need it during this primary.
Shame on you for denigrating her labors on our behalf. If it's "too much text" for you to absorb, I submit you either gracefully shut up, or go back to reading some juvenalia from your stash of old Mad Magazine issues where your concentration won't be so assaulted as it evidently is when reading Free Republic serious discourses.
Leni
If a person born with one citizen parent in a foreign country is a “natural born citizen” then who is a “citizen”?
See post #5.
Heh. Whoever or whatever Congress says is a citizen. There is no limit to that power. "Pomeranians shall be considered citizens," Voila!
BTTT
Anyone who thought ted Cruz would be found ineligible by our current law simply hadn’t been keeping up with the discussion. It’s not very likely. On the other hand I’m very convinced that George Washington would not have considered Cruz to be eligible for the presidency.
No judge which upholds the law should even be questioned much less impeached.
The only point you mentioned that has any bearing on the issue is the status of Cruz's mother... and I don't believe that allegation anyway.
So in other words, that entire wall of text was a complete waste of my time.
Generally if a point cannot be summarized quickly, it is either invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
No. They weren't natural born citizens after the civil war either. It was only the second generation after the civil war that became "natural citizens."
All the former slaves were "naturalized" by an act of man called the 14th amendment. Their subsequent children were natural citizens, but the former slaves were not.
Well the summary I got from Duchess47 indicated that reading it was a complete waste of time. Perhaps her summation was in error or incomplete?
What information did you glean from reading it that is relevant and interesting?
And yet you do not say a word about something relevant that was in it.
If it is worth reading, can you explain what point it made that was worth the trouble?
If slaves and the children born of slaves were not Natural Born citizens, then the term Natural Born Citizen has nothing whatsoever to do with Natural Law.
I guess from now on the Constitution means whatever the uniparty wants it to mean. We not longer live in a constitutional republic. We, like Mexico, are ruled by a privileged oligarchy. Welcome to post constitutional America, thank you Ted Cruz.
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