The Constitution’s Natural Born Citizenship Clause states that “no person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President”.
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Therein, some say, lies the rub for Cruz. “Thus, an individual born to a US citizen parent – whether in California or Canada or the Canal Zone – is a USA citizen from birth and is fully eligible to serve as President if the people so choose”.
Sen. Ted Cruz’s citizenship status could end up before the Supreme Court, Sen.
The certificate lists Darragh’s birth to have been in DE on November 23, 1934. She was an American citizen by birth.
Cruz and many others contend that “natural born citizen” simply means a citizen at birth, someone who doesn’t need to go through a naturalization process later. And so the law is simple and straightforward. “Canadian law required five years of permanent residence, and she moved to Canada in December 1967-only three years before Senator Cruz’s birth”. The opinions of legal scholars may be compelling, but only settled case law or a ruling from the high court would remove all doubt.
But the Constitution’s call for a “natural born” candidate poses a legal question for Mr. Cruz, should he become the nominee, Mr. Paul told CBS’s Face the Nation.
Two Georgetown law professors, writing in the Harvard Law Review, come down more definitively that Cruz is eligible. But the 1795 revision of the Naturalization Act omitted the phrase “natural born” from the sentence.
By contrast, conservative attorney Larry Klayman, who founded Judicial Watch, argues in World Net Daily that not only is Cruz ineligible, so is Marco Rubio.
U.S. Jus soli, or the law of soil: A child was a citizen of the sovereign who ruled the land where he or she was born.
Paul is lagging in the polls and was also speaking to Fox News about being at risk of not making the main stage at the next presidential debate on Thursday. Instead, there is hope that voters ultimately will settle on what they consider a more viable alternative from a group of candidates that includes Florida Sen. For his part, Trump repeated that he personally doesn’t know – but that the lingering question could be a problem if Cruz were elected: Washington Post. “They would’ve said, had they been around when Ted was born in Canada in 1970, that he’s a “natural born” Canadian, and not a “natural born” American”. The question is, can you be natural-born Canadian and natural-born American at the same time? “I think Democrats will force it to be adjudicated and I think eventually the Supreme Court will probably have to decide it”.
What’s wild is that the true story of Cruz – the one supported by him and by the facts – is actually the exact same fictional story that the birther movement has claimed for 10 years disqualifies Obama from being president.
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In what is becoming a signature Trump style, he has not specified why Cruz is “weak” on immigration.
