Posted on 01/16/2016 7:59:19 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Thursday following FBN's broadcast of the Republican presidential debate, Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe attacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97%, one of the participants in last night debate, for his stated on reasoning for his eligibility to run for president of the United States.
According to Tribe, Cruz applies a double standard to his interpretation of the Constitution, to which he deemed Cruz to be a "constitutional opportunist" and a "hypocrite."
"I've done a lot of historical research on it, and so have a lot of other people, and the best evidence seems to be that what they meant in 1788 was something more than just citizen from birth," he said. "They actually meant a citizen whose birth was sort of natural, not in a biological sense but in the sense of connection to the land. The idea was, that it was something that Congress couldn't change, unlike the naturalization process, which Congress has monkeyed around with all the time. I mean, for example, in 1934, the first time it said, you can be a citizen who doesn't need to get naturalized as long as your mom was an American citizen. And that's ultimately the basis on which Cruz has to rely.
The funny thing is, that the kind of guy Cruz is, he's always been this way. When he was my student he was this way. He's always said the Constitution always means the same thing that it meant when it was adopted. That's why he made this funny joke to Trump, you know, saying, the Constitution didn't change since last September. Well, he thinks it didn't change since 1788 when it comes to gays and, you know, women and other things. But when it comes to his own ambition, he's suddenly becomes what he accuses me of being, and it's a pretty true accusation, a judicial activist. That's not the guy he is normally."
"He's being a constitutional opportunist, a hypocrite," Tribe continued. "It's sad, because he makes light of it, but it is a genuine open question, and there's no way of getting around it. Like if he's the nominee, it won the be hard to imagine some secretary of state somewhere simply refusing to put him on the ballot on the ground that that secretary of state is also an originalist and thinks, if you weren't born on the land of the United States, then you just can't run. At that point, somebody would have to sue them, whether it's Ted Cruz himself as the nominee, if that's what we've got, or the Republican National Committee. There's no way to avoid an issue like that going to the Supreme Court. And the irony is, the liberals on the court, assuming they all voted according to principle, as opposed to politics. It isn't always that way, the liberals on the court, the activists would go with Cruz, and the originalists if they were true to their position like Scalia, would vote against him."
I don’t think he’d get to the nomination, making it moot.
Good luck with that.
He is a SUPER ambitious ( in a bad way ), lying, ego driven narcissist. He is NOTHING at all like Reagan; just the flip side of the coin with Obama.
The MSM has pushed and PROTECTED Obama; they will do NEITHER for Cruz.
“Cruz is a constitutional expert”
... and yet, somehow he couldn’t disclose his loans on his FEC form. An attorney and a “constitutional expert” and so smart, I’ve heard. And an ivy league graduate - two times over.
And his wife has an MBA.
Yet together, they couldn’t make the proper two disclosures on an FEC form.
Since he signed it, I have to conclude he isn’t very detail-oriented, or simply did not want to interrupt his story line for the campaign.
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Don’t forget, he was unaware that he was a Canadian until a little over a year ago. I guess when you get that kind of tunnel vision on conlaw that you don’t recall what country you are from. Genius like that is beyond the grasp of little people.
I agree. :-)
The shadow is real, “Trumpbottery” or no.
I think one only needs to be an, er, “God-bot” to grasp this.
Events are forcing us back into an era of truth, even painful truth. The Denial Years of Obama are coming to a close.
Oh it it isn’t so, it isn’t so. No partiality here. I’m just trying to nudge together some kind of reliable handicapping chart.
Maybe we should put this out on a rally thread. Surly someone on one of those is a better techie than we 2 are. :-)
I have posted and posted and posted the FACTS, put out by our government, till I'm sick of it all and none of YOU will accept the TRUTH! So bl,ow it out your ears.
I pray to GOD that he doesn’t!
Also, he doesn't have a lot of common sense at all!
It’s understandable at least given his career. Once American always American, kind of like the Baptist once saved always saved. Don’t look back. That model worked great for him. Canadian-American by birth, Texan by grace of God. Yeehaw. Now it becomes a technical issue. Like his election finance disclosures. Didn’t have to mean anything wrong. But a gotcha that snuck up on him.
The Christian way to deal with the gotcha is to treat it as a GOAD of God. That is 100% of the way He deals with the faithful.
Some have done polls of the nominee vs. Hillary and reportedly come up with better ratings for Cruz than for Trump.
But this doesn’t involve either one having debated Hillary (or Bernie for that matter). This is based on what they know about the respective politicians’ stated positions.
I feel kind of sorry for Hillary against a Trump when he gets going. He won’t be chivalrous. People who secretly knew something was wrong with that gal will be like ding dong the wicked witch is dying!
Tell me how you REALLY feel. lol.
With all due respect, though, I know you pretty much hate Cruz. I’d rather hear from the other camp. (I support both of them.)
I’d love for one of the Cruz supporters to come along and tell me what Cruz’s plan was about the dem lawyers. And if he didn’t have a plan, then why is he not just as arrogant as his opponent (Trump)?
I’m not interested in arguing with anyone. I just want a Cruz person to give me a valid reason to not think he’s very selfish. (And if anyone does answer me, please don’t insult them and get them sidetracked. It’s pretty volatile around here. Thank you in advance!)
Wash your mouth out with soap. lol
Well let’s see. I think we could come up with some names, I am too brainfagged. Of course do not forget Isara, and maybe Isara can bring in some more polkadotters.
Let’s handicap this thing fairly. But we will not accept scoffing or airy predictions. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN RUBBER HITS ROAD? Even if it is slim chance. Seems to me that Democrats get to play troll-with-mace here not because we wanted it, but because God allowed the drama to get to this juncture.
Tell me how you really FEEL about her, huh.
I have some chivalry left. I’d want to deck her with the nicest ma’ams you ever did hear.
Trump... HOO BOY. If we thought Ayotte got it...
So what?
. . . and no doubt have been a CONSERVATIVE longer as well.
You're not being one now.
I have posted and posted and posted the FACTS
Ah yes, what you've posted. Let's take a look at that again, shall we? Here's a blast from the past:
You are such a hypocrite.
Unlike them, I know exactly how Hillary *cough* debates *cough*, which is WHY I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Hillary would eat Ted alive and easily. OTOH, Trump is just as off beat an debater as she is and far better at it.
Bernie? Now that's an unknown.
What a difference five years makes, filehead :-)
We know more about the players and their paths now, than appeared on the surface. This is a digging season. Externals mislead.
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