MORE SCHOLARS SAY TED CRUZ CAN'T BE PRESIDENT (January)
A growing number of constitutional law scholars are arguing that Ted Cruz’s birth in Canada makes him ineligible to become U.S. president.
Their argument could prove a thorn in the side of the senator, who is a zealous originalist on most constitutional questions . . .a former teacher of Cruz's says he thinks the senator isn't eligible to run for president. Laurence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard who taught both Cruz and President Barack Obama, wrote about the subject in an op-ed published Monday in The Boston Globe."But the kind of judge Cruz says he admires and would appoint to the Supreme Court is an 'originalist,' one who claims to be bound by the narrowly historical meaning of the Constitution's terms at the time of their adoption. To his kind of judge, Cruz ironically wouldn't be eligible, because the legal principles that prevailed in the 1780s and '90s required that someone actually be born on U.S. soil to be a 'natural born' citizen. Even having two U.S. parents wouldn’t suffice.
http://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-can...citizen-415430In response, Cruz called Tribe "a liberal left-wing judicial activist."
It's a neat irony: The most conservative constitutional interpreters must find Cruz ineligible to be president; liberals must grin and bear him.
Cruz himself purports to embrace originalism as the correct view of the Constitution.
To be faithful to his understanding of what the Constitution means, the senator may have to disqualify himself.
- Thomas Lee, professor of constitutional law and international law at Fordham Law School.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...110-story.html
It is actually, of course, Cruz espousing HIS far-left liberal interpretations . . .
and denying he is a 1970-born child covered by the Naturalization Act of 1952, the law for a foreign-born child of one US citizen parent in 1970.
He could never be trusted in appointing originalist constitutionalist judges, imo.
So, this is the best he's got - since it worked so well for him with Iowans already . . . still(?)
Supporter Asks Cruz To Justify That He's Eligible To Be President (VIDEO) (February 18)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...-cnn-town-hall"The law under the Constitution and federal law has been clear from the very first days of the Republic.
The child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen," Cruz replied.
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