The harm is that votes that Trump could have received were thrown away on a candidate that is ineligible. The harm is that Trump had to pay for ads to campaign against somebody who should not even have been able to make it onto the primary ballot.
Phil Berg filed a lawsuit over a primary race, and the courts were treating it earnestly until Obama came back from a sudden visit to Madeline Dunham in HI in mid-October 2008. Then all of a sudden the judge reversed himself and said all the legal filings he had presided over were moot because he should have ruled from the outset that Berg had no standing. Funny how the judge just suddenly realized there wasn’t even a case long after a bunch of stuff had already been filed and responded to.
In Roe v Wade the court took up the case of Norma McCorvey even though she had already given birth to her child, because they said there were POTENTIAL women with standing who could practically never have standing because by the time the court tried the case, the baby would always already be born. This is a similar situation. If no harm is done until the election is over, but once the election is over nothing can be done about it... then in effect the Constitution has a provision that is UNENFORCEABLE. And Constitutional interpretation says that if your interpretation of the Constitution means the Framers made a provision that can’t be enforced then your interpretation has to be wrong.
I’ve spent too much time on this, need to get a bunch of real-life things done. Seems like the comments on FR are almost always claims that it’s hopeless, nobody can ever do anything, we’re so screwed, etc. Why even talk about any of this if that’s the case? It’s just a waste of time. I’m not going to waste my time on people who believe nothing can ever be done so we just have to bend over and take what is inevitably coming to us.
Where do I sign up with those who believe there are ways to fight, and who are willing to do so because they believe America and freedom to be worth any attempts we make?
To begin with, any challenge along those lines will not succeed. Cruz's eligibility is assured by statute and by precedent.
So...that renders all the legal contortions that are turning you into a pretzel, totally moot!
I would suggest that if you want to destroy Cruz, you should try something relevant. But then, you already have run the gamut...