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Texas Attorney Files Eligibility Lawsuit Against Ted Cruz…
Conservative Treehouse ^ | January 15th | sundance

Posted on 01/15/2016 7:38:46 AM PST by Lockbox

Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz should be disqualified from the race because he isn’t a “natural-born citizen,” a fellow Texan claims in a “birther” challenge filed against the senator in a U.S. court.


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To: DannyTN

Im no legal expert, but the vast majority of people who are say this is most definately the case.


41 posted on 01/15/2016 8:04:05 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Liz; SunkenCiv; Nachum; RoosterRedux

And the Senate Majority Leader can party tonight with his good buddy, McCain. They found a way to put Cruz and Trump supporters in a cage fight.


42 posted on 01/15/2016 8:05:01 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (1000 muslim migrant gang-rapists in Germany -- Trump helped trigger protests.)
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To: skeeter

Agreed.


43 posted on 01/15/2016 8:05:35 AM PST by Theo (Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution. Choose wisely.)
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To: Lockbox

And the Trumpettes continue to get played...


44 posted on 01/15/2016 8:06:41 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: skeeter

yes

Trump forced the issue to the advantage of Cruz


45 posted on 01/15/2016 8:07:28 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: traderrob6
OK let me rephrase....NOBODY HAS STANDING UNTILL AFTER HE’S IN....PERIOD.


Correct. And after he's in, the issue become in legal parlance "moot". That means that the court will not address it, because they determine that there is nothing they can do to correct the situation.


That is what the courts did with Obama. The liberal judges did so because they didn't want to hurt Obama, and the conservative judges did because they were afraid of being called 'racist'. Neither of these will apply to Cruz. I expect that plenty of judges will take up this issue. And a number of liberal judges will determine Cruz to be ineligible.
46 posted on 01/15/2016 8:07:43 AM PST by MMaschin
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To: traderrob6

I hope you’re wrong because I think it’s stupid to wait until after elections to challenge eligibility to be on the ballot.

But it’s going to hurt Cruz until it’s cleared up. Cruz can’t claim to be defender of the constitution and then dodge attacks on his own consitutional eligibility. Every time he gets a case dismissed on a technicality it’s going to raise a red flag.


47 posted on 01/15/2016 8:07:45 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: patq

No, Trump INSTIGATED this... and Donald Trump has lost my support in the primary and the general.


48 posted on 01/15/2016 8:08:46 AM PST by Lexinom
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To: hsmomx3

too bad mcain & romney did have the balls to make “natural born citizenship an issue in their elections.

oh wait. mccain was born in panama wasn’t he?


49 posted on 01/15/2016 8:08:49 AM PST by thinden
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
As much as I support Trump - there was no evidence Obama was born outside of the USA and smuggled back in and faked being born in Hawaii.

Leaving aside the issue that natural born should mean both parents are born citizens inside of the USA to be a natural born citizen child - there was just zero evidence of outside USA territory birth for Obama. No plane ticket records - no over seas hospital records - no local folklore of the white woman giving birth in a Kenyan village, etc.

Cruz on the other hand was not only born outside of the USA but was giving Canadian natural born citizenship rights.

So there is a difference between Obama's case and Cruz's case.

With that said, I am the first to admit it is a campaign tactic by Trump (politics ain't bean bag) and to me Cruz is eligible.

50 posted on 01/15/2016 8:09:13 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: MMaschin

The first part of your post is absolutely correct, the second half and conclusion, not so much.


51 posted on 01/15/2016 8:10:12 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: patq

Trump is scum. He was not trying to warn and help him out.

It was political calculus and is disgusting.

Quite the flip-flopper he is...


52 posted on 01/15/2016 8:10:46 AM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: RC one

This is a Machiavellian machination staged by McCain and Mitch McConnell.

It builds sympathy for Cruz supporters pitted against concerns by those who simply want us to win the White House.
He will pressure the House Speaker, Paul Ryan, to not sign off Cruz as eligible. Short of that, he’s already undermined him.

A cage fight of their making, and McConnell would rather we lose to a democrat than have a real conservative in the White House.

McConnell: No, Senate won’t pass resolution affirming Cruz’s eligibility like it did for McCain
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Why can Mc-Conman do this? Because he has a revered creep — Professor Laurence Tribe, undermining Cruz [regarding natural born status].

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53 posted on 01/15/2016 8:10:53 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (1000 muslim migrant gang-rapists in Germany -- Trump helped trigger protests.)
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To: Lexinom

don’t forget to get your ball before you go home.


54 posted on 01/15/2016 8:12:06 AM PST by RC one (race baiting and demagoguery-if you're a Democrat it's what you do.)
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To: Lockbox
"Gee will this be dismissed due to lack of standing?????? "

Yes, it probably will.

If somebody really wants to prevent a Cruz run the place to file is STATE court seeking to remove him from the ballot over NBC.

If just one state, any state, removes him from the ballot he'll end up before the USSC in short order under original jurisdiction.

55 posted on 01/15/2016 8:12:09 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: indthkr

It could be Cruz’s fingerprints. Get it in the court and get it resolved.


56 posted on 01/15/2016 8:13:21 AM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: libbylu

It is NOT settled. There has never been a ruling on a case like this before.

It is only ‘settled’ in your closed, addled mind.


57 posted on 01/15/2016 8:13:41 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I think the Courts will say this is a political decision, and the final arbiters are the electors ratified by the House of Representatives.


58 posted on 01/15/2016 8:14:13 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: DannyTN
"And none of it is going to cast Cruz as defender of the constitution."

Lack of standing is thin defense.

59 posted on 01/15/2016 8:14:18 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Lockbox

Yes.


60 posted on 01/15/2016 8:14:26 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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