Supreme Court Sides With Ted Cruz Against Federal Election Commission (FEC) in Win for Free Speech

Townhall ^ | 05/16/2022 | Spencer Brown

[TakebackGOP]

This was probably more of a Republican Establishment issue than a conservative one.

[SmokingJoe]

No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter

Ted Cruz IS a natural born citizen of the United States.
Ted Cruz has ALREADY run for President of the United States, so show me any court that ruled he was ineligible fun will you?

[SmokingJoe]

ineligible fun will you? = ineligible to run will you?

[Lurkinanloomin]

So have Rubio and Jindal, they are also ineligible.
Go ahead and nominate your favorite ineligible and you will be forfeiting the votes of all of us who know what natural born citizen means.

Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they CANNOT be anything else.
Anyone who is born also something else is not an natural born citizen, they are the foreigners the founders put the natural born citizen clause in to exclude.

[SmokingJoe]

So have Rubio and Jindal, they are also ineligible.

Just SHOW ME ANY COURT ruling that says they and Ted Cruz were ineligible to run for President will ya?
Mere rantings from you just wont do.
You are NOT the law.
And how come you never brought any legal action against there gentlemen yourself, if you really think they were ineligible?

[TribalPrincess2U]

Nah, he just boxed their ears!

[Lurkinanloomin]

There is no rule of law and that should be readily apparent.

[Czech_Occidentalist]

Natural born citizen have ONE nationality, that’s why they are NATURALLY citizens...

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That’s your interpretation. I believe that most constitutional scholars say that a natural born citizen is a person who became an American citizen at the time of his birth and doesn’t have to go through the process of naturalization.

[SmokingJoe]

Of course there is rule of law. Today's ruling in this thread plus the upcoming reversal of Roe prove it.

[Lurkinanloomin]

when do the criminals that perpetrated Russia,Russia,Russia go to trial?

When does the stolen election get rectified?

[Lurkinanloomin]

And that is why we have lost our Republic.

[SmokingJoe]

If your mother is American you ARE American. You don't have to go through naturalization.

[SmokingJoe]

when do the criminals that perpetrated Russia,Russia,Russia go to trial?

Durham is starting their trial just today. They are facing very serious charges.
Look it up.

[Oklahoma]

I quit trying to reason with Lurch a long time ago. He hates Cruz and it won’t be long until he hates DeSantis.

[CA Conservative]

“So, ya take out a personal loan to run your campaign. After election, you can use postelection contributions from corps or groups to pay off a personal loan. Weird.”

Not exactly. Cruz lent his campaign money from his own pocket, and then used the contributions to repay the loan. As long as the loan was used for legitimate campaign expenses and not to pay some relative or friend for “work” on the campaign, I don’t see any issue with him getting repaid for the loan.

[libertylover]

later

[HKMk23]

Actually, what struck me as “weird” about this is that Senator Cruz lent his campaign exactly $10,000 over the $250,000 that he had to have known beforehand would be his repayment limit after the 20-day reimbursement period was up.

By statue, he could only be fully repaid an amount in excess of the $250,000 within 20 days of the election. He knew that. He loaned $260,000 to his campaign. He waited more than 20 days. His campaign, then, could only reimburse $250,000. Stuck with a loss of $10,000, now he’s a “damaged party” in legal terms, and has cause to sue.

I think Sen. Cruz had this sad sack of an FEC statue in his crosshairs the day he made the loan to his campaign, planned all along to get tripped up by it, to be unable to get that last $10,000 back, and then use that as his basis for this suit. That’s damnably shrewd strategy, if you ask me.

[Theoria]

imho, I think it's extremely ‘weird’ to receive donations and then use that money to pay back a personal loan.

[chuckles]

We just had 8 years of Obama and his whore mother was his only connection to America. Even if you agree his father was Frank Marshall Davis, his mother was enough to win court challenges. You are saying you are smarter than dozens of judges up to and including the SCOTUS, by hanging onto this fiction you can't seem to get past.

I won't bore you with the ad nauseum arguments made years ago, but when the country started, there was very few people actually born in America, so they wanted to make sure the POTUS would have been. After a few years, it became more common for people to be born here so a child born with one parent a citizen became enough.

Obama was raised in Indonesia as a Muslim, but was deemed "American" by the SCOTUS due to his mother. Personally, I believe he gave up his citizenship to be adopted in Indonesia, and also his name was changed. To be POTUS he had to say whether he ever had an alias. Being named "Barry Soretoro" would qualify.

If you live in Texas, please don't vote, other wise we will end up with Beto as Governor because of your hard headedness. Cruz has an American mother and that has settled it in court several times. However you choose to read it, it has been settled in court and he can run and win.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Supreme Court has not addressed it.