Posted on 01/11/2016 8:53:37 AM PST by VinL
Donald Trump continues to raise the issue of Sen.Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) American citizenship.
In a Fox News Sunday interview (below), Trump argued that the Canadian-born senator must "get this problem solved" before potentially running against a Democrat in the fall and facing a lawsuit.
"Does 'natural-born' mean born to the land, meaning born on the land? In that case, he's not. But nobody knows what it means because it hasn't been adjudicated and it hasn't gone to the Supreme Court," said Trump.
On America's Newsroom this morning, Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said that Cruz's American citizenship is "well-settled and established" under a law that goes back 100 years.
Napolitano said Cruz's citizenship cannot be questioned, since his mother was an American citizen when he was born.
"A human being born in another country with at least one parent who is an American citizen, who lived in the United States for at least one year during the parent's life before the birth, is an American citizen. That is exactly Ted Cruz's situation. ... [He] is a natural-born American citizen," Napolitano explained.
He agreed with Martha MacCallum that the reason for bringing this up is "political," not legal, since many voters may not know the law.
Napolitano said Cruz could benefit from getting this cleared up now, rather than later. But he noted that Trump is correct that the Supreme Court has never reviewed the law "because the issue has never come up."
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Guess he's never heard of Obama.
Rush went from top to bottom today proving Cruz eligible without a doubt.
I think the residency requirement is greater than one year. The judge is in error on that one iirc.
I don’t think because Cruz was born in Canada and was a Canadian citizen that should disqualify him from running for President, but lots do and this is causing him lots of trouble.
Trump is out to win...surprise surprise and he is!
Trump is playing “Born In America” at his rallies now LOL a brilliant and funny guy.
I do love how these Cruz’ers who trash Trump and his supporters here at FR with crap day after day, are running around with their hair on fire over this. LOL ... Love It! If Cruz won the nomination the Dems and the media would hound Cruz everyday of the election with this too, but not to worry Cruztons, he won’t win nomination. It is done .. the fat lady has sang for Trump ...”Born In America!” LOL
Lose... Trump is not good at losing!
What does Judge Judy think?
Cruz has a serious problem just like obama had in Kenya. same issue exactly. The problem was the republicans had no guts to sue him. Get this straight— THE DEMOCRATS WILL SUE AND WIN!!
And your losing....losing against the drapes ! LOLOL
Yea sure you would...! LOL
Napolatano was a traffic judge in the Bronx. As a boy, he played Eddie in the Musters. He is not the answer man folks — That will be Judge Roberts on SCOTUS. How do you think that is coming out? By the way Trump is writing Cruz off as VP because of Cruz’s inaction on getting a declaratory judgment which is sooo easy.
So, since Cruz’s father was Cuban, whether one believes both parents have to be American at time of birth or just the father, then Cruz is not a natural-born citizen.
I read that Queen Noor/Lisa Halaby did, in fact, renounce her US citizenship when she married Heussein. Also became a Muslim when she married him. Her Arab father’s family were Syrian Christians.
Oh Canada! Great ice skaters. Cruz thought he would skate on this. He should have taken care of this little problem before 2014. Not ready for prime time.
Eddie Munster?
There are many legal minds that disagree with Napolitano on what is a natural born citizen and a citizen. There is a difference and Napolitano has not cleared this up with his statement.
Which is why, until the appropriate authority does clear it up (which will not happen in the foreseeable future apparently), IMO Cruz with his American mom is absolutely eligible and this entire discussion is silly.
Silly? I do not think so. I would like the answer to this question once and for all.They do not want to rule on it because it may turn out that Obama was ineligible to be President and all of his work as President would become null and void.
For anyone considering themselves a conservative that would be foolishness defined.
Why do these idiots not get it? Of course he's a citizen. The question is whether he's a natural born citizen per the constitution and qualified to run for office.
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