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.
Im no legal expert, but the vast majority of people who are say this is most definately the case.
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.
Agreed.
And the Trumpettes continue to get played...
yes
Trump forced the issue to the advantage of Cruz
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.
No, Trump INSTIGATED this... and Donald Trump has lost my support in the primary and the general.
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?
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.
The first part of your post is absolutely correct, the second half and conclusion, not so much.
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...
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
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3382813/posts
Why can Mc-Conman do this? Because he has a revered creep — Professor Laurence Tribe, undermining Cruz [regarding natural born status].
How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party - CNN.com
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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.
It could be Cruz’s fingerprints. Get it in the court and get it resolved.
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.
I think the Courts will say this is a political decision, and the final arbiters are the electors ratified by the House of Representatives.
Lack of standing is thin defense.
Yes.
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