Ping
It is so over.
Shouldn’t this be in Breaking News???????
Uh...no. The Federal level could affirm that Cruz is NBC then all lawsuits will be dismissed.
If it was that easy we could just do the same to Hillary. Make her prove her eligibility in all states. Sure she will win, but so will Cruz.
So what if there are lawsuits? Cruz is a NBC via Title 8 Section 1401 subsection G of the US Code. In order to have standing, the person bringing the suit has to show that:
1) they were directly harmed by the action
2) that the actions was not in accordance with exiting law
or
3) that the law itself is unconstitutional
#1 could be met by a losing candidate - true but that is a very limited pool of people. Generally speaking, bringing a lawsuit is expensive and would require a substantial investment of time, money and effort. Anyone bringing that suit would have to do the calculus that the effort would be worth the outcome of the ruling.
#2 nope, per above law, Sen Cruz is a NBC
#3 This would be the only real avenue and would require either that the law itself was in violation of the Constitution (nope) or that Congress does not have the authority to define NBC (nope) or that NBC means something other than being born a citizen and not naturalized (very though road).
frankly i don’t understand why obama, who was born outside of the us top an american citizen mother, is ineligible, but cruz who was born outside of the us to an american citizen mother is eligible.
please explain this to me?
What Trump was explaining last night was an example of New York values at work.
It is Blue Privilege.
That is what truly runs the country.
Trump is a Democrat in the mold of Ross Perot pretending to want to help Republicans.
I think lawsuits should be advanced against Trump using precisely the natural born parent arguments outlined by Cruz.
Lawsuit rise and fall on the basis of blue privilege.
New York City values that believe those of us in the South and with Biblical values are contemptible.
We can basically go to political hell because we don’t agree with Trump and his NYC values.
Trump is wealth enough to fend off such frivolous suits.
But Trump is promising and encouraging people to file suites against Cruz.
We are led by a plutocracy in this nation.
Trump is at the head of that Plutocracy.
The issue badly needs to be resolved by the federal courts so that we don’t keep going through this every election and so that we don’t risk electing another Obama.
Cruz’s failure to preemptively address this by seeking a declaratory judgement indicates Cruz only defends the Constitution when it’s certain that it will benefit Cruz.
I’m not gonna disagree
:: The loser in an election has an absolute right to sue on eligibility grounds, regardless of the margin or loss ::
My understanding is that ONLY the House-of-Representatives and/or The Electoral College have judicial-standing to seek a court’s decision regarding eligibility of POTUS.
We have a country now that has been gutted by a non American, one who hates every facet of American values and look were we are, do we want another ‘phony’ in the White House again?
America is a Nation of Laws and those laws are what we live by, if another person born in another country wants to come in and ‘hid’ everything from the laws, then we as AMERICAN CITIZENS need to know the truth, and we need this put the way the framers of our Constitution declared it to be...”Natural Born Citizen” to be President or V.P. of the United States of America...
‘The truth will set us free’
Brl
I would agree with you, but I wonder, if Trump is the nominee, will the DEMS find something to sue him over anyway ?
I cannot see Valerie Jarrett giving up her position as Consigliere to ‘a’ President.
Trump initially did a poor job of explaining his concerns.
He is correct that Cruz needs to get this legally resolved NOW or the combined Obama/Clinton machine will destroy his political future.
Funny how you Trumpies are more excited about suing Cruz with a zero percent chance of success than you seem to be about charging Hillary Clinton for her crimes.
Oh, wait. Your guy DONATED to her. Maybe that’s why.
BKMK FOR TONIGHT.
Exactly. I think trump wanted to run with Cruz. He also doesn’t like losing Iowa to Cruz. He needed Cruz’s eligibility FINALIZED NOW, and he needed a bump up in the polls, without hurting Cruz personally. This only is fighting against something Cruz can’t help: where he was born. Get this thing legalized by a court. Do it now. Oh, and you fight back, you don’t win Iowa.
Win win for Trump but he still might choose Cruz as his Veep.
How, in the election process is this doubt resolved?"Doubt" will never be resolved now because Cruz was too stupid or arrogant to have done anything about it before it became an issue.
Now there will forever be "doubt" no matter what any court says.
Cruz will never be elected President and he's poison for VP (he is his own poison pill).
Sounds like Obama all over again only Obama was born in Hawaii and Cruz was born in Canada.