Ted Cruz 2016 Campaign Releases Mother’s Birth Certificate

“Natural born citizen in the context of citizenship is one thing; natural born citizen in the context of a presidential candidacy may be another thing – that’s for the court to decide”.

Some of his rivals have pushed back ; the Kentucky senator and presidential rival Rand Paul and Arizona senator John McCain , the 2008 candidate, have declined to support him.

Trump, the main “birther” questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama citizenship, has flip-flopped in Cruz’s eligibility. Cruz has argued that his deportation policy is tougher that Trump’s because it would not allow immigrants now in the country to ever become US citizens.

The Constitution requires the president to be a “natural-born citizen” of the United States.

Republicans have split on the Cruz controversy. Harvard’s Laurence Tribe, Cruz’s former professor, told the Guardian in a series of email exchanges that “there is no single, settled answer”.

If Sen. Ted Cruz wins his party’s nomination and the November election, will he be able to serve as president of the United States?

The uncertainty surrounding Mr. Cruz’s case is understandable. And while the Cruz campaign finally released Cruz’s mother’s DE birth certificate just a few days ago, his mother was on a 1974 Canadian voter list, which Cruz birthers suggest could mean she became a Canadian citizen, thus renouncing her USA citizenship and further calling into question Cruz’s eligibility.

Lee, who is cited as an “expert” by the conservative Federalist Society, concludes: “It’s a neat irony: The most conservative constitutional interpreters must find Cruz ineligible to be president; liberals must grin and bear him”. “I think without question everyone would accept that, you know, Cruz is a natural-born Canadian”. With no evidence at all, they have regularly claimed that instead of being born in Hawaii, he was actually born in Kenya or even Indonesia, to his American mother and African father.

As they wrote in the Harvard Law Review previous year: “The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common law and enactments of the First Congress. Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes persons born overseas who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent”.

Some contend that it means to be born on US soil.

“It appears to be a unique qualification and most people have interpreted they had to be born in the U.S.”, Paul said.