Posted on 04/10/2016 8:21:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Ted Cruz risks primary disqualification in New Jersey resulting from charges of ballot access fraud. A primary ballot disqualification hearing is scheduled by the Secretary of State for Monday, April 11 at 9:00 a.m. in Mercerville, New Jersey.
Washington D.C. Law Professor Victor Williams charges that Ted Cruz fraudulently certified his constitutional eligibility for office to gain ballot access. Williams demands that Cruz be disqualified from several late-primary ballots: "Cruz committed ballot access fraud in each state when he falsely swore that he was a 'natural born' American citizen." Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada and held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014. Cruz is a naturalized (not natural born) American citizen.
Williams' fraud charges had quick effect in New Jersey. Rather than accepting Cruz's ballot petition when filed last week, the Secretary of State ( Kim Guadagno) scheduled the unusual Administrative Law hearing for April 11. The Canadian-born Cruz must prove that he did not falsely certify his eligibility for office.
Cruz's ballot eligibility is also being challenged in California, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at gloucestercitynews.net ...
hmmmmm.......
Is there some part of being born OUT of the country that makes one a naturalized citizen that we could be of assistance in?
Being a citizen and being a natural born citizen are two different issues. Ted is not a NBC.
Trump for President.
Do you think he might be bucking for Trump’s vp?
Your question is honest and deserves a clear answer.
The founding father’s were very leery of anyone foreign born being President or Vice president. That has nothing to do with “Citizenship”. Discussions In the lexicon of the time , the opposite os “ foreign born” was “Natural Born” . The term was well used in that context. It did not mean “natural non cesarean birth” . It meant that as to the highest office ,i.e. the Presidency one could absolutely not be born outside the soil of our beloved country. This intent was to heighten our sovereignty for our highest office .
Please do not confuse “citizenship” with “Natural Born”. They are apples and oranges.
As stated by many here repeatedly, it is an absolute fact that Crus wac NOT born on our soil as required in Article II and Section 1 of the United States Constitution. He is not eligible to hold the office.
Let me demonstrate how it becomes crystal clear in the wording of the Constitution iself.
“Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution states: “No Person except a natural born Citizen ... shall be eligible to the Office of President.” The original structure of the Constitution does suggest that “natural born” was meant to contain a geographic component of birth in the United States. The “Inhabitant” requirements for senators and representatives in Article I of the Constitution clearly were intended to be geographic. Since the qualifications stated for president contain no other obvious parallel geographic reference, it would seem the framers meant the “natural born” citizenship requirement for president to refer to those born geographically in the United States.” Taken from www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-01-27/ted-cruz-is-not-a-nwatural-born-citizen-according-to-the-constitution
Now notice that if the founding fathers intended that a “citizen” was all that was required, the “geographic qualifier” would not have been used. In other words , it would have merely states “Citizen”. It did not merely state “citizen” There was an important geographic qualifier to absolutely preclude eligibility for a foreign born citizen.
I hope this clears up the issue for you so you will no longer be confused. This issue must go to Scotus but that will take years. The Democrats will enjoin any candidacy of foreign born Republican with absolutely certainty.
If you aren’t naturalized you don’t need citizenship papers.
He just needs to get a copy of photoshop and he can make one in just a few hours. Just be sure that he flattens the file to hide the layering. Otherwise the Cold Case Posse might get suspicious.
It's no big deal. Cruz will push for the creation of the North American Union, the USA and its Constitution will be dissolved, and his citizenship will become a non-issue.
See how easy that is?
People, many of them, need to be tried, convicted, and executed for this fraud. Same as for Odinga's fraud.
Don’t know the answer....that’s why I asked....
I’ve read both sides of the argument and scholars, attorneys and judges fall on both sides of the issue....
Most I’ve read support Cruz’s position....
The guy is a constitutional attorney, he should know.....If he had any doubt he should have settled it before he ran....
Don’t like the guy...he’s a used car salesman in my opinion but unless there is a realistic court challenge I would accept that he is legal....
Haven’t seen that challenge yet....
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/sres511/text
April 10, 2008
Mrs. McCaskill (for herself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Obama, Mr. Coburn, Mrs. Clinton, and Mr. Webb) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
April 24, 2008
Reported by Mr. Leahy, without amendment
April 30, 2008”
The lord McCain objective was to resolve ‘deceit’ Hillry Clinton got burned big time for her part, and so did we.
No, because one born out of the country to an American citizen is a citizen of the US at birth...a natural born citizen.
He never had to be naturalized because he was a citizen at birth...what part of that do you need assistance with. That is the law, it has been the law since the first congress, and it comports with the Constitution.
Sorry, another bit of some little pro Trump blog with absolutely no meaning or the real media would be covering it.
Put on the tin foil hats!
This will last about half a second on Monday when it will, once again, get thrown out....
No it isn’t settled. Look up the 1970 SCOTUS decision of Rogers vs Bellei. Bellei’s birth circumstances are an EXACT proxy for Ted Cruz, and he was stripped of his US citizenship for failing to comply with certain aspects of the citizenship statute that he was naturalized under. No natural born citizen could be shorn of his citizenship in that manner.
Ted Cruz is a US citizen by statute IF his mother filed a Counsular Report of Birth Abroad in accordance with the Immigration Act of 1952 in a timely manner, and that documentation has not been produced to date.
He too, like Obama may be an illegal alien.
Please ping me foe any and all you out together, thanks....
I’d go if he was defending himself. Would be awesome to hear how the constitution is defined by those who wrote it. I would actually love to read all of Alito’s stuff but I spend way too much time here.
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