Posted on 09/29/2019 9:00:36 PM PDT by rintintin
Forgot my disclaimer: I was a Cruzer before I was a Trumpster.
So you must also believe that Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent, are also natural born citizens of the US and eligible to run for President.
“Sorry Ted. The next time you run, it will be without my support.
And I was one of your biggest supporters.”
I agree with you. However, I’m not confident Pence can win!
Every school kid in the 40s and 50s absolutely knew that to be the case, only recently has that notion been questioned, notably by George Romney and later for sure John McCain.
I was born in 1960 and had a friend whose father was in the Air Force in Germany when he was born and he knew he was ineligible.
The military used to tell expectant parents if they wanted to preserve natural born citizen status, mom needed to return home before she gave birth.
I know that Cruz can’t win.
Millions of us will not vote for ineligible candidates.
What a great example of the unhinged hatred of Senator Cruz.
Cruz actually argued and won the case that put an illegal immigrant to death before the Supreme Court.
Our legal capacity to kill Awlaki is demonstrably enhanced by Cruz’s successful actions and advocacy for American citizens against illegal immigrants.
Cruz defended US sovereignty against international courts pretending we could not kill such individuals.
If you believe Ted Cruz is eligible, then you also believe Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids are, they were born in a foreign country to one citizen parent.
BTW, I don’t hate Ted Cruz, he has the potential to be a great Senator for Texas if he kept his mind on that.
I donated to his first run for Senate.
I love the Constitution.
The founders had very good reasons to restrict the office to only those who were only Americans and nothing else.
They rejected Hamilton’s suggestion of “born a citizen” as insufficient.
The children of foreign nationals are precisely who they were excluding with the use of natural born citizen.
Barack Obama should have been proof enough of that for anyone.
Heidi wanted Herbert, so should we.
In reality:
This is not a particularly controversial interpretation [Cruz is a natural born citizen] of Article II, section 1. Here is an excerpt from a recent article by Neal Katyal and Paul Clement, “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen,’ “ in the Harvard Law Review Forum:
All the sources routinely used to interpret the Constitution confirm that the phrase “natural born Citizen” has a specific meaning: namely, someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth with no need to go through a naturalization proceeding at some later time. And Congress has made equally clear from the time of the framing of the Constitution to the current day that, subject to certain residency requirements on the parents, someone born to a U.S. citizen parent generally becomes a U.S. citizen without regard to whether the birth takes place in Canada, the Canal Zone, or the continental United States.
While some constitutional issues are truly difficult, with framing-era sources either nonexistent or contradictory, here, the relevant materials clearly indicate that a “natural born Citizen” means a citizen from birth with no need to go through naturalization proceedings. . . .
Katyal and Clement also directly address the question of Cruz’s eligibility:
Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a “natural born Citizen” within the meaning of the Constitution. Indeed, because his father had also been resident in the United States, Senator Cruz would have been a “natural born Citizen” even under the Naturalization Act of 1790
Those two are part of the cabal that want the natural protections of the natural born citizen clause neutered.
The founders specifically rejected “citizen at birth”
http://www.art2superpac.com/issues.html
“So what other things has Cruz done or said that make him ‘not Conservative’?”
I don’t need any other. Making excuses for anti-fa thugs is disqualifying.
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