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The post states that Cruz's mother took up with an Englishman, moved to England and married him while still married to her previous husband. The marriage to the Brit would have granted her British citizenship.

The offer of British Citizenship does not automatically strip away her US Citizenship.

My understanding is that it can only be relinquished by a deliberate act of renouncement. Absent that, it doesn't matter what the laws of other nations say about it. In the US, US law applies.

Also the bigamy references are just pot-shots at her character, and have nothing at all to do with the legal issue of her citizenship status.

Yes, bad people still retain the rights of US Citizenship.

My understanding is that it can only be relinquished by a deliberate act of renouncement. Absent that, it doesn't matter what the laws of other nations say about it. In the US, US law applies.

Well, then doesn't it warrant a closer look? Did she or did she not renounce her US citizenship. That's kind of an important fact.

Are you implying someone can go traipsing around the world, becoming a citizen here and there, and then just come back to the US, and everything is fine...welcome home citizen, good to have you back?

the bigamy references are just pot-shots at her character

Well, what about her character?

Where did Cruz get his from; his footloose, abandoning communist father, or from his hot-to-globe-trot mother?