Voters, not courts, should settle Cruz’s eligibility

Politics is no stranger to varying interpretations of the Constitution, but the question of Ted Cruz’s eligibility for president begs the question: Is this something Cruz will have to reconcile, or could this blow over the way questions of citizenship have for politicians? “In any event, the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes”. While the U.S. Supreme Court has not spoken on how we define the term “natural born citizen” in the Constitution, most legal scholars understand this to be a person who is a citizen at birth, and as such, does not have to go through a naturalization process. Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president based on his place of birth.

“Wyoming law requires that a nominee be qualified to hold the office to which they are seeking if they are to appear on the ballot”, Hunt added.

Wilson also refutes the idea that the federal court system would ever become involved in solving whether Cruz is a natural born American citizen. The Constitution says that to be president of the United States, you must be a “natural born citizen”. He wants deportations – a position he resisted until recently – but says law enforcement agencies should find the immigrants through the course of their regular duties. Both said Cruz is eligible to run for president, she said. I am a legal historian. “They would rather see Hillary Clinton win the presidency than Ted Cruz”.

People with real credentials as Filipino citizens also have rights that must be respected by those who covet our prerogatives and privileges.

In September, Public Policy Polling found that only 28 percent of Cruz supporters believed that Obama was born in the US, while 62 percent of them claimed Cruz was American-born.

“I think without question, everybody would accept that, you know, Cruz is a natural-born Canadian, that he was naturally born there”, Paul said in an interview on Fox News on Monday, according to The Hill. Those who favor the latter point to the Naturalization Act of 1790, which states that “the children of citizens of the United States… shall be considered as natural born citizens”.

Cruz will be in New Hampshire Tuesday night, and not in Washington watching President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address.

“On the other hand, to the kind of judge that I admire and Cruz abhors – a “living constitutionalist” who believes that the constitution’s meaning evolves with the needs of the time – Cruz would ironically be eligible because it no longer makes sense to be bound by so narrow and strict a definition”. “And having just an American mother, as Cruz did, would clearly have been insufficient at a time that made patrilineal descent decisive”.

Thus, the distraction du jour: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “question” as to whether opponent and first-term Texas Sen.

McCain noted that the Canal Zone was “a territory of the United States of America” when he was born. So using the logic now being espoused by Cruz and his other Republican supporters, there should never have been a “birther” issue with Obama. John McCain wants to prevent Ted Cruz from being the GOP nominee for president. But like Macbeth, who feared no man “of woman born”, Cruz is finding that technicalities can be troublesome. Trump said regarding Cruz at a Sunday rally in Reno.

YouGov conducted a national poll this week of whether adults agree with Trump that Cruz might not be eligible or with Cruz that he is. But it is not likely to, unless Mr. Cruz is victorious on election night and someone with standing challenges him in court.