Grayson is correct about one thing, Cruz should not be seeking to become Usurp the II.
Here’s a transcript from a radio interview with Alan Colmes that Alan Grayson gave last year.
Grayson stated he would file a lawsuit challenging Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential candidacy if he won the Republican nomination because Cruz was born in Canada.
He said Cruz was “technically not an American,” according to the transcript, to which Colmes noted that “like Obama” Cruz’s mother was born in the United States.
“It’s interesting to me that the people who had a problem with Obama’s birth certificate don’t have a problem with Ted Cruz who literally was born in another country and renounced his Canadian citizenry,” Colmes said, according to the transcript.
“I don’t know, the Constitution says natural born Americans, so now we’re counting Canadians as natural born Americans? How does that work?”
Grayson responded. “I’m waiting for the moment that he gets the nomination and then I will file that beautiful lawsuit saying that he’s unqualified for the job because he’s in eligible.”
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Colmes is correct in asking the rhetorical question, “now we’re counting Canadians as natural born Americans?”
And now we’re quoting two known liberal pieces of excrement on FR in order to tear down Ted Cruz?
My how far FR has fallen...
I agree with Grayson only that it seems inconsistent for those who thought Obama was not a citizen by circumstances of birth to support Cruz’s claim to be an NBC.
Like most courts, I believe Cruz to be an NBC because I believe that means “a citizen due to circumstances of birth.” I have heard other, narrower interpretations bandied about, such as requiring either both parents’ citizenship and/or birth on USA soil, but I have yet to see a court uphold either.
I believe that a baby that comes out of an American-citizen mother is a natural born citizen. Disagree if you like.