Professor Volokh says Senator Cruz is eligible.
“Eugene Volokh, a professor at the UCLA School of Law and longtime friend of Cruz, agrees, saying the senator was “a citizen at birth, and thus a natural-born citizen — as opposed to a naturalized citizen, which I understand to mean someone who becomes a citizen after birth.””
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/343914/cruz-birthers-eliana-johnson
Time for another e-mail?
Well I pretty much figured Volokh would be a moving target. I doubt the FReeper was lying in 08. What we have here are people for a variety of not so ethical reasons wishing so therefore it is. So called “legal scholars” in the liberal political science departments or the many talking heads in the media are not in the practice of real science or rocket science for that matter. It changes like the wind in their circles.
So how is Fogbow these days 4zoltan?
I figured he was going to come down on that side. I could tell from the way he was handling it on his blog. Funny thing,
I got this little tidbit from his blog.
Intellectual phase lock is a problem with all academics. And then he says he's a Friend of Cruz? Yeah, who coulda seen that coming? :)
Here's his bit of logic which is awry. A naturalization law can apply BEFORE you are born.
as opposed to a naturalized citizen, which I understand to mean someone who becomes a citizen after birth.
Once again, so long as his mother is old enough, met the residency requirements, and as long as he too met the residency requirements, then in accordance with the naturalization law passed by Congress in 1934, and later modified in 1952, then sure, Ted Cruz is a "natural" citizen.
So as long as Congress leaves that law alone and doesn't repeal it, all those people who are made citizens by it's authority are "natural" citizens, even if born in foreign country to foreign fathers.
