Posted on 11/28/2015 11:45:13 AM PST by Isara
Grayson is way overdue for a Baker Act hold.
Remember when Mike Huckabee got the left all riled up when he said all those New Yorkers going down to Florida would ruin the state? Yup, he was right.
Unless of course, you are born in Kenya. You are a natural born citizen ;-)
Un freekin’ believable!
There were/are a good number of FReepers who agree with Grayson on this and they feel the same way about Obama.
As a former Army brat I have always believed if you are born to an American parent no matter where you are in the world you are a U.S. citizen.
Actually, “where” doesn’t matter if both parents aren’t citizens. Cruz should stay in the Senate rather than effectively rubber stamp Obama’s lawlessness.
Well, that would not be the first time, would it? And this from the guy who can actually be asked the question, "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
Grayson needs to nut up or shut up.
The only place the Constitution specifies “natural born citizen” is for POTUS. It grants that “a citizen” can be a U.S. Representatives/Congressman, a Senator, an Attorney General, Secretary of State, or Supreme Court Justice.
The argument arises as to the meaning of “natural born,” which our SCOTUS has yet to define. Attorneys can and do argue the point to death. In the strictest interpretation, however, children born outside of the country to citizens in the service of the country are “natural born.”
Jus sanguinis (Latin: right of blood) is a principle of nationality law by which citizenship is not determined by place of birth but by having one or both parents who are citizens of the state. Jus soli (Latin: right of soil) is a declaration that the citizenship is determined by the place of birth. Many nations have a mixture of jus sanguinis and jus soli, including the United States, Canada, Israel, Greece, Ireland, and recently Germany.
To reconcile this obvious conflict, technically a person could hold dual citizenship, by place of birth, and by nationality of one or both parents.
This is the lawyer thang, to take any old B.S. angle you can especially when you have no real skin in the game in the first place.
The logical answer is the one we heard concerning lawsuits against Obama. Grayson has no standing to bring a suit.
Cruz’s mother was born in Delaware, moved to Texas as a teenager, so she always lived in the US until she went to Canada to work in the oil industry there.
I seem to remember that the mother has to either be of a certain age or has have lived in the US for a certain length of time and obozos mother didn't pass the test. It was a small technicality.
Grayson gets publicity out of being an outrageous idiot. He is a white hustler like Al Sharpton is a black one. The more outrageous, the more notoriety, the better it goes with his gerrymandered constituency. This is the 5th or 6th thread on him for this topic, he is a putz, don’t give him the publicity, please!
At this juncture, the qualification of “natural born citizen” is meaningless, thanks to the half breed and his lying accomplices.
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