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."
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
How about an expert in the field of immigration. Charles Gordon.
Or perhaps Justice Thomas himself.
Or perhaps Justice Scalia himself.
And Trump said he had his best legal minds, and he has the best working for him, there is no problem with Cruz’s eligibility, and then later said he thinks Cruz would be good VP.
Evangelical.
Just to be clear, King George could have been elected first President of the newly formed United States? Answer, yes. Just because you meet the qualifications does not even make it remotely possible.
Levin is a Conservatives Conservative!
“Judge Nap”
Have you the opinions available from any other esteemed TV jurists? Judge Wopner? Judge Judy? Judge Joe Brown?
I think Cruz is a citizen (or at least a permanent resident) but lets move on. Whatever Trump is doing it seems to be working since he has now surged back in to a tie in Iowa and has the momentum going in the right direction for these last few weeks.
Yes, because it’s a bedrock of conservatism to call for a candidate to be installed as dictator.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3376629/posts
Anita Trump is pansy for bringing this up....and you know it.
I’m sure he’s one of the ones that says Trump is a secret Hillary plant too, am I right??
He’s a whiny fool who is currently going nuts because Breitbart has “birther” articles on it, even though Breitbart is funded by a Ted Cruz megadonor and hands over its readership info to Cruz’s psychological analysis group. But idiot Levin, in all his unhinged glory, is ranting and raving about Breitbart having a “Trump” cult of personality, and of being “***-holes” because they’re doing their jobs!
Which is why you just posted this?
Fordham Law Prof: Ted Cruz Not 'Natural Born' Under 'Originalist' View of Constitution
Oh come on. If it wasn't intended to be an "attack," then why was his answer the exact opposite of his answer a few months ago (when he said that lawyers had looked into it, and there is no issue with Cruz)? Trump was trying to stir the pot with innuendo about Cruz, and you know it.
(Notice how, to many Trump supporters, anything negative said about Trump is an "attack," while anything negative said by Trump is just "answering a question" or the like?)
Lawrence Tribe is your man...got ya
Not smart. Posting that article doesn't mean I'm trying to match one logical fallacy with to another. It's the content I was enjoying.
Charles Gordon gave examples of how this could get settled. This was back during Mitt’s father.
I believe the only way it will get settled is for someone under XYZ parameters gets elected and survives to become a sitting President.
I don’t think SCOTUS will take it on.
Rush Limbaugh first equated this Trump attack to Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas-— I merely adopted it as “Anita Trump”.
Probably Ginsburg and the 2 lesbians on the court are probably in agreement with your friend Tribe...
I'd guess by the time the Iowa primary takes place in approx 3 weeks Trump will be back up by 10 points in the polls and the past couple of weeks will be a faint memory to people like VinL who is afflicted with TDS.
And you’re a liar.
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