Texas lawyer files federal lawsuit challenging Ted Cruz’s eligibility to be president

The Supreme Court’s record in settling presidential election disputes isn’t pretty.

But Tribe’s comment is at least legally precise. Not only that, but Cruz’s primary claim to fame is that he is what’s called a constitutional originalist – someone who believes we should interpret the constitution for what the original authors wrote and intended and not how it has been contextually interpreted in modern times. An ambiguous, anachronistic phrase in the Constitution shouldn’t be one of them. However we feel about allowing naturalized immigrants to reach for the stars, the Constitution must be amended before one of them can attain the office of president. The Constitution says the president must be a “natural-born citizen”. His mom was American.

“Barack Obama is going to have an empty chair at the State of the Union“, Cruz said. Cruz was born in Canada, but his mother is American.

“What he’s doing is right, he took a stand”, Trump said, referring to Cruz’s 20-hour long anti-Obamacare filibuster on the Senate floor.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus punted when asked if Cruz is eligible to run for president. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia agreed with Mr. Bellei and ruled that § 301(b) was unconstitutional. By federal law, he is. One parent’s citizenship, regardless of where someone is born, is all it takes to make a child a citizen.

I’m not known for my clairvoyance – it would be impossible to make a living predicting what the Supreme Court will do – but as the latest round of birtherism continues into successive news cycles, I do have an odd sense of “deja vu all over again”. I am a legal historian. I also thought it was dumb when some people said that Obama wasn’t eligible to be president. The distinction between the president and Cruz is simple: “The president was born within the United States, and the senator was born outside of it. That is a distinction with a difference”.

Republican voters almost mirror independents and the broader electorate in their belief that Cruz can not hold the White House, with 27 percent of all voters and 28 percent of independents responding he should be disqualified.

There’s law, then there’s politics.

Except, President Obama was actually born in Hawaii.

Cruz’s Houston headquarters is trying to manage public perceptions by any means necessary. Politically, they are brilliant.

The Cruz-Trump rivalry has been intensifying ahead of the February 1 Iowa caucus, the first step in the presidential nominating process. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has made about the escalating tension in the Middle East. He’s the only candidate to have launched his bid on the campus of an evangelical university.

It was only a little less than two years ago when Donald Trump introduced Sen.

Cruz is, of course, a US citizen.

Can Cruz overcome this?

Oh you say that because your mother was an American when she moved up to Canada.

Now there is much more to my story. Trump showed reality isn’t the point.

It’s unclear what will come of this complaint, but this isn’t the only birther action that Cruz is contending with.

TRUMP: OK, good. Because it wouldn’t work.