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I have no idea how this would play out, but in this situation, in our system, it is possible.
1 posted on 02/15/2016 5:54:49 PM PST by mike70
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What about the Congressional certification of the Electoral College vote?

If an objection is raised in writing. What happens then?


74 posted on 02/15/2016 6:41:08 PM PST by Elderberry
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Trump is a defendant in a huge RICO lawsuit that is going to trial in July or August; and based on the facts, he is going to lose BIG. How in the world can he be running for President while he in trial and the Democrats calling him (truthfully) a racketeer?


100 posted on 02/15/2016 6:58:43 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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I have no idea how this would play out, but in this situation, in our system, it is possible.

You are over-thinking this. In our system, unless corrupted, it is NOT possible for any such scenario to play out. This is not a matter for the Courts, and the Courts would refuse to take the case for any one of several slam-dunk reasons. The first and most obvious is that there is no law, no statute, no rule being broke or circumvented. Therefore there is nothing for a court to adjudicate.

102 posted on 02/15/2016 7:01:50 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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The Constitution is silent about “running for President”, “being nominated”, etc.

No Constitutional issues are raised until the Special Joint Session of Congress prescribed in Article II and Amendment XII opens the electoral vote submissions and starts counting them.

Until then, it’s up to each individual State Legislature to deal with it.


117 posted on 02/15/2016 7:16:22 PM PST by Jim Noble (I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone, and I won't question what or when or why when I'm gon)
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The Constitution is silent about “running for President”, “being nominated”, etc.

No Constitutional issues are raised until the Special Joint Session of Congress prescribed in Article II and Amendment XII opens the electoral vote submissions and starts counting them.

Until then, it’s up to each individual State Legislature to deal with it.


118 posted on 02/15/2016 7:16:22 PM PST by Jim Noble (I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone, and I won't question what or when or why when I'm gon)
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The only other choice appears to be to nominate Trump who is guaranteed to lose in an epic landslide that will make McCain and Romney look competitive, so I’ll take my chances on Cruz.


134 posted on 02/15/2016 7:55:47 PM PST by JediJones (RUSH LIMBAUGH on TED CRUZ: "This is the closest in our lifetimes we have ever been to Ronald Reagan")
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Probably depends what the lower courts decide since the Supreme Court will be most likely 4-4.....wouldn’t that be hilarious. Cruz loses due to no replacement on the Court. I would say good Karma.


136 posted on 02/15/2016 8:00:09 PM PST by napscoordinator
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The Supreme Court would rule that Cruz is eligible 8-0.


142 posted on 02/15/2016 8:23:29 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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Stop there, he won’t be the nominee.


158 posted on 02/15/2016 9:06:24 PM PST by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever Trump is the only hope.)
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What happens now?

Nothing. The Democratic nominee lacks standing to sue.

170 posted on 02/16/2016 5:31:43 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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We know that if Cruz won the nomination, the Dems already have paperwork re NBC prepared to take it to court.

It’ll go through the proper chain of courts, up up up to SCOTUS, but there are only 8 judges. They’ll need 9, so we’ll be forced to let Obama cram through his choice just so we’ll have the correct number of members for a vote.

Of course, I really have no idea how it would play out as there are so many options.

It would be nice if all candidates were eligible so this would not be an issue. But they’re not. This will make 2000 Bush v. Gore look like a Sunday School Picnic and we’ll be in chaos for months.

If Cruz truly loved America, he’d either (1) provide documentation with irrefutable proof of eligibility, or (2) leave the race for the good of the country. Americans have made great personal sacrifices for the good of the USA, why can’t Canadians?


190 posted on 02/16/2016 4:40:12 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Romans 8:38-39)
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It is a can of worms best avoided.

Vote Trump


200 posted on 02/16/2016 5:03:50 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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We recently found the WWI draft registration forms for our two grandfathers, filed in 1918.

Born in South Dakota (1881) and Minnesota (1896), they said respectively “native born” and “natural born.”

The term “native born” was an option pre-printed on the form to be checked, and the latter, “natural born” was written in the blank on the other, slightly different form.

In previous decades, when the various census efforts were completed, the forms called for identification of citizenship, origin etc.

I believe a young Cruz, upon admission to the US, would have been classified as Canadian, in those days.

Insofar as we have not had a single President born outside the US, I doubt our founders expected such an individual would merely appear, and declare himself eligible as Cruz has done.


203 posted on 02/16/2016 5:24:06 PM PST by truth_seeker (e been labeled "Canadian" in those days.)
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If, If, If, If, If and then, then, then monkees fly out of my butt......


206 posted on 02/16/2016 10:37:13 PM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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