Posted on 02/19/2016 11:30:09 AM PST by Coronal
Not along ago, Illinois pharmacist and attorney Lawrence Joyce began to realize his country and his political party were facing what he considered to be a nightmare.
Concerns about the eligibility for the presidency of Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas, who was born in Canada to a Cuban father and an American mother, were raised by rival Donald Trump. Though they may at first have seemed laughable, the legal case against Cruz was one Joyce, a Ben Carson supporter, thought he understood.
The Constitution requires the president to be a "natural born" citizen of the United States, and as far as Joyce is concerned, Cruz isn't one.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
the money quote:
“that he should now drag the entire Republican Party through a potential nightmare simply because of his negligence, his own private, wishful thinking, and his lack of due diligence is inexcusable, and such conduct hardly signifies the type of person whom the American people need in a President of the United States, “
More here
where was this schyster 8 years ago. Sorry but Shiitte for brains in office kinda renders this moot.
My prediction - dismissed for lack of standing
It would be if you’re a Trump worshiper.
This just gives Cruz more media.
Which he will use to his benefit.
Cruz will lose.
MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, delivered the majority opinion of the court:
Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization.
A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized, either by treaty, as in the case[p703] of the annexation of foreign territory, or by authority of Congress, exercised either by declaring certain classes of persons to be citizens, as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens, or by enabling foreigners individually to become citizens by proceedings in the judicial tribunals, as in the ordinary provisions of the naturalization acts.â€
Cruz has to be a naturalized citizen.
Only a “birther” or “gun nut” would be stupid enough to demand their Constitutional rights. /S
McCain was born outside the US. How was he eligible?
Hearings in Indiana were scheduled to start at 1:30 pm Eastern Time. There are ten ballot access challenges on the Feb 19, 2016 Agenda.
no standing.
Since he lost the election, the question was moot?
And the Trump people complain when a positive Cruz poll is posted too many times............
He wasn’t, but the Congress and Courts don’t enforce or abide by the constition anyway, so it’s all good.
Nope. Kim Wong Ark is the most gratuitously wrong case ever decided by the US Supreme Court, and no I don’t exclude the Dred Scott decision. Justice Gray was compromised and wrote a decision that was wrong on the law and wrong on the facts. This crap decision led directly the the ‘anchor baby’ travesty.
BTW, a child born outside the territory of the USA is not therefore also born “outside the jurisdiction of the United States” and can naturally inherit citizenship via the parent(s). No statute law necessary.
Cruz is not naturalized, he’s a natural natural all the way to the bank.
Cruz hasn’t been elected yet - so it’s moot?
Last time, everyone lacked standing.
—were raised by rival Donald Trump.—
They were raised before Trump mentioned that Cruz’s position was —precarious—Which it is. Cruz should settle it asap!
Presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio stay on Indiana ballot, commission rules
On Rubio, Election Commission member Anthony Long, of Boonville, said he thinks common law makes it clear: Someone born on U.S. soil to parents lawfully in the country is a natural born citizen. Yet, Long, a Democrat, questioned whether Cruz's mother really was a U.S. citizen, though he ended up supporting the defeat of the challenge.Rubio's challenge was rejected 4-0, while the Election Commission denied the Cruz challenges in a 3-1 vote.
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