What about the Congressional certification of the Electoral College vote?
If an objection is raised in writing. What happens then?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court would rule that Cruz is eligible 8-0.
Stop there, he won’t be the nominee.
Nothing. The Democratic nominee lacks standing to sue.
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?
It is a can of worms best avoided.
Vote Trump
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.
If, If, If, If, If and then, then, then monkees fly out of my butt......