The interesting thing to me is that we have liberals seated on the Supreme Court. It will be they who are most likely to side with Cruz, whereas Scalia represents the originalist interpretation of the Constitution, and throughout Cruz’ career, so has Ted.
Until now.
TRUMP was pointing this out without going into detail when he shrewdly brought up the names of Lawrence Tribe, which qued the media to seek out Tribe’s complaint with Cruz’ new found “living interpretation” surfacing when it suits his own need. Tribe called Cruz a “hypocrite”. Tribe was immediately heard right after the debate, on a LIVE interview with Chris Matthews!
He explained the Natural Born Citizenship as originally constituted by the Founders is actually now an “open question”. He said that NBC, back then, had nothing to do with birth “right”, so much as “ties to the land” (nature), back in 1822, or whenever. There is Cruz born with no ties geographically, because he was born in another country, to parents who had no ties to the “land” and possessed citizenship in Canada.
The parents were not serving American interests, as say in those in the military, they were not stationed on US Territory, or an embassy, or military base, nor serving the US government, but were in Canada on their own free will.
Tribe said any Secretary of State in the US would have standing even NOW to question his status and remove him from the ballot in their respective state until the question was adjudicated in the SC.
Worse, he said, is that because NBC is an “open question” in the Constitution the Justices would have a hard time deciding because of past precedents that are conflicting. Since the 60’s, the original sparse definition of NBC in the Constitution has been adjudicated completely more liberally than it was ever before, prior to the sixties.
A ROYAL mess! Even in the courts! Yikes.
Yep yikes is right! Cruz has stepped in it. Now we get to see if he up the job of being a leader or just good at remembering scripts.