Cruz says law is clear on his eligibility to run

It is well-settled, established by the Congress for a hundred years.

“The eligibility for President is a constitutional eligibility, it’s not statutory”.

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. Two such principles were then in play in the U.S. Jus soli – the law of soil – was the principle that a child was subject or citizen of the sovereign who ruled the land or seas on which the child was born. “[McCain’s] birth on a USA military base within a territory controlled by the United States from 1903 to 1979 … under a treaty with Panama probably (although not certainly) qualified him as a natural born citizen, especially because both his parents were USA citizens at the time”, Tribe told the Guardian. Ted Cruz spent the weekend talking about this, and I can’t imagine it was his favorite thing to do, but the law is solidly on his side.

Sarah Helene Duggin from Catholic University, who is an expert on this topic, wrote at length for us about a potential Cruz candidacy back in October 2013, and she explained why many scholars believed Cruz was eligible.

Paul said though it’s clear Cruz has a right to citizenship, it’s not clear if it’s the same as what the Constitution requires of a president.

Donald Trump agrees that the issue should be adjudicated, telling Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that if Cruz were to become the nominee, surely the Democrats would take the matter the court.

When asked how Cruz could run for president if he was born in Canada, McCain answered, “I do not know the answer to that”.

The former MA governor Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee in 2012, tweeted on Friday that Cruz was indeed a “natural-born citizen”. Ted Cruz is “fair game”, adding to a growing chorus questioning whether the Texas Republican’s Canadian birth could affect his ability to secure the GOP presidential nomination.

“Cruz is a natural-born Canadian”, Paul said, according to CNN.

Tribe has said previously that the question of Cruz’s eligibility is “unsettled”. “He was naturally born there”. Others say it means to have two parents who are citizens. Of Cruz’s eligibility, he said: “There is a doubt. If he were the President, he would be the first President not born in the United States.”, Paul reiterated.

Cruz’s campaign did not immediately respond to questions about Branstad’s comments.

Also, Maskell in his 2011 Congressional brief, found that “the weight of more recent federal cases, as well as the majority of scholarship on the subject, also indicates that the term “natural born citizen” would most likely include, as well as native born citizens, those born overseas to US citizen-parents, at least one of whom had previously resided in the United States, or those born overseas to one USA citizen parent who, prior to the birth, had met the requirements of federal law for physical presence in the country”.