Posted on 01/30/2016 4:20:28 AM PST by ironman
CNN's Drew Griffin investigates Ted Cruz's eligibility.
Video ran on Anderson Cooper 360.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I've seen too many good, decent and fun Freepers drop off over the years. I hate seeing it happen every election cycle.
He has said she was a naturalized U.S. citizen. When exactly? I’m not sure. Yet you are so quick to say “Nope”, when you don’t know either.
This speaks volumes..he’s playing us, and trusting Texans, for fools..
He still refuses to release his birth documents..we can only wonder what is under that rock.
This kind of shell game reminds me an article I read about the clintons, shortly after bill’s election, (and prior to his impeachment).
A reporter asked, what was the “First thing B & H did when they woke up in the White House that first morning?â€....â€They Laughedâ€, replied H.
Later it occurred to me that they laughed because they had successfully hoodwinked the electorate.
Mr cruz is displaying the same contempt for us...ominous
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I didn’t say that correctly..I meant to say..”We Laughed”..the point being that they did not pray, display humility, or commit to each other to work each day for the citizens of America...no, “We Laughed”..I’ll never forget it.... volumes.
False.
A natural born Citizen is born in the country to Citizen parents (Natural Law). Anything else is a statutory citizen (man made law).
Did Rubio ever hold Cuban citizenship?
Ad Hominem argument. You lose.
The reality IS that this is no longer a Constitutional Republic. It ceased to be that a few decades ago as the subPreme Court set the Constitution aside for 'penumbra rulings'. With the advent of Roberts on the court, it is clear that owned (read blackmailed) judges now rule a usurped We The People. The democrats have achieved what they only dreamt of a few deacdes ago. They ended the Constitutional Republic long ago, and evidence of that is the 1973 Roe ruling which made murder a right for pregnant women, defining pregnancy as a disease for which murder of the alive unborn is an acceptable cure, so long as the pregnant woman wants to be rid of the alive unborn child..
You can't create a natural born Citizen with any statutory law (man made). Per the U.S. Constitution, congress only has the power of naturalization. ARTICLE I, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 4
Posting information from the Obama administration website from 2016 to support your argument? That’s just plain pathetic.
“I guess my point is that you could take 301(a)(1) out of there. Citizenship to us-born would still attach by the 14th amendment, and not depend on a statute, like Cruz’s does.”
No, because you are missing how the purpose of Sec. 301(a)(1) is to serve as the statute that implements the imperative or mandate of the 14th Amendment. In other words, just as the Constitution enumerates the power for the Congress “To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization”, that Rule of Naturalization is embodied within the U.S. Code Title 8 statutes. Likewise, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution also implements its mandate in the same Rule of Naturalization embodied within the U.S. Code Title 8 statutes.
“NBC is a legal term of art. It’s not expounded in the constitution,”
It is not supposed to be “expounded in the Constitution”, because it is natural law already expounded upon in millennia of common law traditions and acted upon in the courts of law relying upon common law judgments and case law.
Because I'm leery of a candidate that panders to the ethanol lobby and has unclear social positions?
Because I'm not smitten by a huckster like a 14 year-old school-girl?
Nice.
Those that include one born in another country to a non-citizen parent as a NBC, reduce NBC to the lowest possible form of citizenship; a form that requires governmental acknowledgment to even exist.
One can argue the language the founders used when they created the position of Commander-in-Chief doesn't require an "originalist interpretation" at all. Out of the entire government scheme, they required NBC for this office alone. Because the founders were giving the CiC of the nation's armed services unlimited power and authority over the nation, they intended he not be subject to the influence of any other country through birth or parentage.
Those who argue that is not what the founder's intended have the burden of proving otherwise.
What about Marco Rubio? This dude is an Anchor Baby. If Marco wins than alot of Anchor Babies can run for president. His parents were not US Citizens when he was born. Where is the attack on him?
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Rubio is a dead man walking.
The light is not him because he poses no threat...yet.
He sees Raphael is twisting in the wind and knows that his days are numbered. marco is raking in as much cash as he can before pulling the plug.
Mary Anne Trump's naturalization card shows that she became a US citizen in 1942, four years before her son Donald was born in 1946.
Donald Trump was born in the country of two Citizen parents. He is a natural born Citizen of the United States of America.
Personally, I’m afraid the damage has already been done and the perception of Ted Cruz the Canadian is already in the minds of tens of millions of Americans.
Good, about time the electorate put’s down their cheeseburgers and pays attention for a change..
Yes. This issue has to be confronted and resolved in a very real way. Maybe Cruz himself could do it by using some of his $19 million in cash to fund a lawsuit against his own candidacy. Somehow. Just a thought.
“Did Rubio ever hold Cuban citizenship?”
Cuban law did provide a means for expatriate Cuban citizens and their children to naturalize at birth or after birth as Cuban citizens if acted upon within a specified period of time. There are no indications I know about where Marco Rubio would have adopted the naturalized Cuban citizenship. In any case, Marco Rubio was born with a divided allegiance by birth with respect to Cuban citizenship and at birth with respect to U.S. citizenship.
“More likely to be Trump/Rubio.”
Marco Rubio is also a naturalized U.S. citizen, who is also not any more eligible to be a lawful President than Ted Cruz or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Donald Trump was born in the country of two Citizen parents. He is a natural born Citizen of the United States of America.
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Trumps meets the gold standard for natural born citizenship. No question whatsoever.
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