Posted on 02/29/2016 3:59:25 PM PST by drewh
A New York judge will hear arguments on Tuesday in a lawsuit that challenges Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s ability to run for president given that he was born in Canada.
State Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein will hear the claim of two men who contend that Cruz is not a citizen of the U.S. and is therefore ineligible to run for president, NBC has reported. Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada.
Barry Korman and William Gallo will argue that despite Cruz’s mother being an American, the senator is not a citizen because such status cannot be passed from parent to child, Newsday reported.
The defense of Cruz’s place in the election is being argued by the New York Board of Elections, which put Cruz on the ballot, NBC added.
Cruz, a lawyer, was elected to be a senator from Texas in 2012, Newsday added.
Thanks and yep, that's another good one.
Have you ever seen this from 1789?
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/founder-and-historian-david-ramsay.html
Cruz is/was a Canadian, and Rubio is an anchor baby...so is Jindal, and probably Nikki Haley.
Cruz claims he didn't know he was a Canadian until he was in high school, and didn't renounce his Canadian Citizenship until less than two years ago.
Did his mother file the papers to obtain his US Citizenship? Who knows, do you?
Where are they?
No— check out Chester A. Arthur. He was born in Canada, but obfuscated better than even obamaumao.
He should never been allowed to be President...we don’t know to this day if he was really born in Hawaii or Kenya, we have a birth certificate of both....his mother was 18 when she had him, and she was a natural born citizen...but NO, he should never have been allowed to be President, but then again, either the SCOTUS should make a decision....
I wonder why obuma and Cruz have sealed their records, what is it they are hiding? If your truthful and have nothing to hide why seal anything up?
None of your “irrefutable authority” is binding legal authority. You have a nice but incomplete collection of judicial musings (dicta) and academic opinions that would NOT compel SCOTUS to find one way or the other for Ted Cruz. In truth, as recent cases have said, naturalization does not apply to those who have their citizenship from birth by natural means, such as right of soil or right of blood. Those are natural born citizens, and under the law as it is today, SCOTUS would almost certainly find in favor of Ted Cruz, and by a vote of 8 to 0, based on binding legal authority.
Peace,
SR
He is entirely qualified to take it up again.
The morons are about to elect the next President.
The first set of morons are Hillary Clinton supporters and if they all show up to the polls, Hillary will be our Evil Queen.
The second set of morons are Donald Trump supporters who have not discovered that Trump is not a conservative and will never be. He does understand that this country are sick and tired of the corrupt politicians in Washington of both politics and he might be able to gather enough angry voters to send both parties into where they belong. The problem will be the aftermath.
In either case, the morons are going to be making the decision this year and the real question is can we save the Republic and advance the cause of Conservatism after this donnybrook is over. I do not know.
Is this “judge” a DemocRAT or Republican?
American???
No, the issue is whether he’s a natural born citizen. Big difference McFry.
I am of the mind that it is the Father that the child follows....the child takes his name after all.
Considering it used to be that the wife became the man via marriage, she became a citizen too so in that time the two parent citizenship is moot in my view.
As to the canal zone kerfuffle over McCain, he was born outside the zone, yes a technicality but none the less it happened.
It is curious that the Senate pass SR511, though not binding, yet they passed it.
Even more curious was it was Clinton and Obama who instigated it.
Does it matter? The law is the law, it’s either enforced or it isn’t and when it isn’t then its up to the American people to hold their Senators and Representatives feet to the fire....
Sorry, that's not how things are supposed to work. Our constitution is law and should be enforced rigidly.
That’s just the problem. Where does it end, 5 presidents later?
It was hidden during bam’s candidacy, and shouldn’t have been. It continues to remain hidden as he spends millions to keep it hidden.
I agree, and what we should have done is raised holy hell over it, but we didn’t did we?
We are now, and so we are called every name in the book, sorry but I want this issued answered by the SCOTUS....
I’d much prefer Cruz being Scotus Cruz.
Wiki says he was born in Fairfield Vermont
a senate resolution is just one step less useful than a sheet of toilet paper
and yes, its sponsorship was indeed curious.. as has been the mass media’s almost-lockstep cover-up ever since
at least in USSR they had their sanizdat (underground newspapers) that reported on their government’s activities....(I guess FR is our samizdat)
Of course this is about the law and the Constitution. Cruz is certainly eligible for the Office of President. That is the law and it is a law within the original intent of the Constitution. If you don’t like Cruz, vote against him, don’t depend on some law school correspondence graduate or some Freeper birther to save you.
not a citizen because such status cannot be passed from parent to child,
In the real world such obtuse thinking would not get very far. If it gets beyond “What did you say?” in Nuevo York, it will not in any Fed Court. If it somehow were to get to SCOTUS, they won’t hear it until the bench is full.
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