I can't stand ted cruz, I find his politics fascist and know he is bought and paid for by the 1%, wall street, the bank-financial cabal, the military industrial complex. I know a ted cruz presidency would further the nation's decline to a Third World oligarchy / plutocracy. But to continue harping on this birther thing is a waste of time considering the real issues and problems we face as a nation. I was disgusted when it was and still is directed at Pres Obama and have not time for the accusations directed at ted cruz now. Campaign on the issues and leave the birther bullshit to the ignorant. This from +Wikipedia and +Mother Jones .....
Clause 5: Qualifications for office
Beginning of the clause in the 1787 document
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; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.By the time of their inauguration, the President and Vice President must be:
- natural born citizens
- at least 35 years old
- inhabitants of the United States for at least fourteen years.
- The Twelfth Amendment (1804) requires the Vice-President to meet all of the qualifications of being President.
- The Twenty-second Amendment (1951) prevents a President from being elected more than twice.
Natural-born-citizen clause
The Constitution does not define the phrase natural-born citizen, and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its precise meaning. The consensus of early 21st-century constitutional and legal scholarship, together with relevant case law, is that "natural born" comprises all people born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, including, generally, those born in the United States, those born to U.S. citizen parents in foreign countries, and those born in other situations meeting the legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth".[2]
The natural-born-citizen clause has been mentioned in passing in several decisions of the United States Supreme Court, and by some lower courts that have addressed eligibility challenges, but the Supreme Court has never directly addressed the question of a specific presidential or vice-presidential candidate's eligibility as a natural-born citizen. Many eligibility lawsuits from the 2008 and 2012 election cycles were dismissed in lower courts due to the challengers' difficulty in showing that they had standing to raise legal objections. Additionally, some experts have suggested that the precise meaning of the natural-born-citizen clause may never be decided by the courts because, in the end, presidential eligibility may be determined to be a non-justiciable political question that can be decided only by Congress rather than by the judicial branch of government.[3][4]
| Thu Jan. 7, 2016 1:37 PM EST
And now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has joined the fray. "I do think there's a difference between John McCain being born into a family serving our country in Panama than someone being born in another country, but again this is a constitutional issue that will be decided or not," she told reporters on Thursday.
Here's Nancy Pelosi's full answer to the question about Ted Cruz's status: pic.twitter.com/pulVGMp1m4
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 7, 2016
This is absurd. Cruz is eligible to be president because his mother was an American citizen. And as National Review explains, it's not even an especially unusual situation:[T]here is nothing new in this principle that presidential eligibility is derived from parental citizenship. John McCain, the GOP's 2008 candidate, was born in the Panama Canal Zone at a time when there were questions about its sovereign status. Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee in 1964, was born in Arizona before it became a state, and George Romney, who unsuccessfully sought the same party's nomination in 1968, was born in Mexico. In each instance, the candidate was a natural born citizen by virtue of parentage, so his eligibility was not open to credible dispute.It shouldn't be a hard question for Pelosi or McCain to answer unambiguously—we've spent roughly eight years rehashing the constitutional requirements for the office over and over again (in part because of Trump and the kinds of people who support him). The fact that McCain and Pelosi both—for perfectly legitimate reasons—can't stand Cruz is just not an appropriate justification for Trumpian nativism.
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