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 like the sound of that. Bless you!
Calm down, I think it will be a moot road.
And what has happened along it is going to reflect later to the good in Cruz’s role as Senator when it might be indifferent or a bane to his role as President.
Roberts was Cruz’s idea, yes. Trump the businessman will not issue blank checks, he will trust Cruz to vet, but when he said he wants to see a Thomas he does not mean a Roberts. Reliable conservative/libertarian please. Not crypto-activist.
If you read the bible, “loving” the daughter is a command. New Testament especially never said hate.
It is SO obvious that Trump truly LOVES this nation and her people, that I am shocked that others refuse to see this. He doesn't want to be president for the money, the power, nor even the glory.....he wants America and her people be be in a much better place than it is right now! If THAT, alone, isn't admirable, I don't know what is! And he won't take the salary that goes along with the position!
No...she told me that I should tell her anything because I “HATE CRUZ”, which is a falsehood.
Exactly. Trump getting advice from a liberal professor. Who could have known? It was pathetic that Trump mentioned this liberal during the debate. On this issue during the debate, Cruz made Trump look like the jackazz that Trump is
True...I shall accept your post, with one caveat....Ted said what he had to, to get money. He wasn’t offered it...he went begging to people for it and said what he had to, to somehow please them, or else he wouldn’t have gotten the donation.
You’re wrong.
Please pray something like from my keyboard to God’s screen :-)
Now if it HAPPENS would I get a big head and go off on a career as fortune teller?
I don’t think so. I think other mighty gospel voices are also coming on the scene. I won’t be unique. Keep me humble :-).
But the big secret is a little secret. Take God’s promises at face value. God knows some people are so willful they never would. But others aren’t. There was an episode in John Knox era Scotland when it seemed the Christians were “falling from the skies.” Here’s how I suss that one out. This was a Calvinist milieu which, whatever its shortcomings, boasted great confidence that God could arrange ANYTHING. They prayed for believers, like Paul spoke of ministering for the sake of elect. God heard from the foundation of the world and said you, you, you, you are going to be born right there in Scotland... and the result was what they saw.
If it happened... it would have been better to frankly do it like Trump did. Said he’s putting together a deal. Whoever likes this agenda may donate. Voila. It seems to be working.
I was slow in following this. I cringe at cat fights, hate to watch.
9/11 was a telling moment in that lefty city, when it seemed to show a whole different side.
I think God let it happen in part to show America what it was capable of, under the patina of leftiness. Which I think was acquired due to the drip, drip, drip of filthy rich lefties. But people are not one dimensional beings.
Neither candidate dug into the dimensions like I did, and it was just ugly with each feeling hurt.
Well maybe rose colored glasses are now cemented to my eyeballs... or maybe it’s just 3D glasses. God didn’t build people in one dimension. That’s absurd! But even more importantly... they aren’t robots, slaves only to circumstance however affected by circumstance. Certain moments give us an X ray into the American psyche. Wars tend to do that.
I agree.
America needs but to realize her God is still there, not some kind of hypothesized country God (we don’t have a divine covenant on the physical land) but the God of what is still myriad choices, yet with a populace divinely concentrated... again thanks to how He has used Calvinists. And ask for Him to deliver the promises. And He will. That simple. Her Flag (when the power of darkness comes in like a flood, He will raise up a Standard) is still there.
I don’t know what happens to the proceeds of an abandoned candidacy either. Maybe he’ll just give it back as far as it is traceable.
The NYC that I grew up in, was a friendly, face paced place. People talked to one another, even to strangers in stores or museums, etc.! They were polite, men tipped their hats to ladies, walked on the outside, near the curb, and children were pretty respectful of their elders. Yes, yes, I know none of that sounds at all "real", now, but it REALLY was like that.
What happened to it ( and I'm NOT denying that there was a history of political corruption, in the least, because there was and that isn't the ONLY place in this nation, that it's true of ! ) more recently, was a HUGE influx of crazies and liberals from all over the USA ! Real New Yorkers became fewer and fewer.
And what Ted blamed on the entire state of N.Y., could as easily been pinned on Austin Texas, Boston, Mass. and any number of other places.
They get to keep it and no, Ted and all the other candidates get to keep the money they have raised to run for president and NOBODY ever gives it back to the donors.
It has grown in NY however. Past the city bounds.
I go with a Kool-Aid theory though certainly pre-drunken citizens immigrating can add to it. The bible talks about it in Psalm 73. Waters of abundance (from the foolish leader) are drunk by his people. Might even translate into some supporting demonic events, the Old Testament seems to be that way, knowing no explicit demons (or Jesus) yet. But also Psalm 73 identifies this as an unstable state. The suffering believers will see a victory in the end because God has put limits on the nonsense.
A multi-dimensional aspect to the population might even result in bursting past demonic bonds in response to the emergency. Both angels and devils are there. Scratching head for scripture. Might think of one later.
I feel weird almost like I am talking about subatomic physics theory. But we don’t live in a sterile universe. We have to deal with those beings and a God.
Legally so. Ted could make a unique class move and try doing it anyhow. Could be an interesting feature. I believe in hoping for the best.
Manhatten is still awesome. And the great state of New York is even better.
NY has a strong line of Democrat union families. Irish and Italians. And most lean conservative. But unfortunately, they vote to preserve what they know.
There are people who seem to defy classification. Why would these Democrats stay Democrats when long ago the GOP shifted into the appropriate ideological space?
Tradition. They’re conservative, you see. And it should dawn on us how many meanings conservative has. To bandy the word around as though it were some firm anchor point, is to measure with a silly putty ruler. I like to stick with a concept of godliness, that transcends a bunch of worldly artifacts quite well.
Anyhow, yeah. I think it is consistent with my theory. These guys, and the whole Democrat party, got spiritually Kool-Aided. Democrats have been into smaller mischief since antebellum times. They never were truly good news but they were a lot better before than they are now.
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