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To: baltimorepoet

There’s no consensus, so big names have come down on different sides of the question. There’s no Supreme Court decision directly on point, so it’s left for conjecture.


74 posted on 01/15/2016 6:12:19 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
-- There's no consensus, so big names have come down on different sides of the question. --

Without rigorous testing of this proposition, I think there is a consensus, and it runs in Cruz's favor. I have read about 10 pieces by credible legal scholars that say Cruz is NBC, and zero that say he is not - unless you take Tribe's comment that SCOTUS will use originalism as saying that Cruz is not NBC.

Oh, there is one piece that is a little softer in support of Cruz's position. Make it 9 out of 10 are dead-sure Cruz is NBC. Citizen at birth = NBC, simple as that.

Full disclosure, I find the consensus to be in error, but I'm not viewed as a competent legal scholar.

91 posted on 01/15/2016 6:25:19 AM PST by Cboldt
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