Myth? He wasn’t born here to two US citizens was he?
SCOTUS isn't the same as running for President.
Cruz has argued in front of the SCOTUS 9 times, on mostly Conservative issues. He was also a law clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
There are no explicit requirements in the U.S. Constitution for a person to be
nominated to become a Supreme Court justice. No age, education, job experience,
or citizenship rules exist. In fact, according to the Constitution, a Supreme Court
justice does not need to even have a law degree.
That may be your definition of “natural born citizen”, but it is not so stipulated in the Constitution, which does not define the term. Leaving the matter to the discretion of Congress.
The operative law being 8 USC 1401 “(g)a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years:”
Yeah, someone could challenge that and it would go to SCOTUS, but a plain-language reading seems rather dispositive.
I have always been a little confused on this. Is he a citizen? Can his offspring be President?