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."
Non sequiturs from folks who are desperately looking for smears
So you think Cruz should disqualify himself even though the case law on the books supports him?
Sometimes the proverbial blind squirrel gets the proverbial acorn. Kindergarten level sloganeering does not make this fact vanish.
The “case law on the books” never went to this extent. It never treated Barack Obama. “Dismiss for lack of prosecution” like they might argue in traffic court.
There have been precisely zero Presidents born outside the US.
Therefore no legal precedent exists to settle the question.
“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.
Wendle:
I spent half my life in Iowa. When I tell you that Cruz “would have to be caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy” (to quote Edwin Edwards) to lose next month you can take it to the bank and cash it like a check.
It’s tinker’s dam, not damn, to stop the solder from running.
Also appealing to case law makes it easier to accept USSC morphing of the Constitution — another trap!
No, the Gordian knot cutter here is God, and the very Christian Cruz should certainly be in a position to know it.
Wouldn’t it be very funny if God taught him this lesson through unbelievers?!?
That’s some good Alinsky right there.
He’s exactly who Trump would like. Trump agrees with him on most things, like being pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, in favor of single payer healthcare, etc. He’d be just the big government type to fit right in a Trump administration.
Since the Trump cult came into being. For some of them, all that matters is holding onto their Donnie.
I saw the Huffington Post used as a source today. Can Daily Kos be far behind?
Laurence Tripe is a constitutionally illiterate, highly partisan, socialist hack who has some sort of personal vendetta against Cruz.
Tribe has always been a boring liberal. We had to read his crap whether we wanted to or not. Now I am thinking that he might be a professor just like Obama was.
Maybe Tribe just doesn’t like Hispanics.
IRREFUTABLE AUTHORITY HAS SPOKEN
(Oct. 18, 2009) The Post & Email has in several articles mentioned that the Supreme Court of the United States has given the definition of what a ‘natural born citizen’ is. Since being a natural born citizen is an objective qualification and requirement of office for the U.S. President (and VP), it is important for all U.S. Citizens to understand what this term means.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/10/18/4-supreme-court-cases-define-natural-born-citizen/
DO you even know who and what Lawrence Tribe is?
Few? Are you serious? What a farce.
Well that isn’t actually true...
This seems personally to me on the order of nit picking, though Cruz by going for the “model conservative and legal expert” image opens himself up here for criticism that the businessman Trump wouldn’t get. (Trump is potentially on the hot seat for bad business moves, of which he had a few, but they are in single digit percentages.)
The political costume party contest rules here are: come as you choose to come, but be ready to defend what you came as!
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