{"id":19036,"date":"2016-01-14T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19036"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:50:47","slug":"cruzin-home-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/cruzin-home-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz’in Home to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though the evil Hairball was the first to bring this up, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.  More and more legal scholars are agreeing that Ted \u201cUranus (no matter how you spell it) Inspector\u201d Cruz is not eligible to be President, because he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"CruzUranus\"A growing number of constitutional law scholars are arguing that Ted Cruz\u2019s birth in Canada makes him ineligible to become president. Their argument could prove a thorn in the side of the senator, who is a zealous originalist on most constitutional questions\u2014with what seems like a notable exception.<\/p>\n

The issue has moved to the center of the presidential campaign, with Cruz\u2019s rise in the polls and Donald Trump claiming that Cruz needs to prove he\u2019s eligible to run by getting a declaratory judgment in federal court.<\/p>\n

There is some ambiguity in the question of eligibility. The Constitution sets down three requirements to assume the nation’s highest office: one must be at least 35 years old, have been a resident of the U.S. for at least 14 years (though whether those years must be consecutive or can be cumulative is a question up for debate) and must be a "natural-born citizen" of the United States. But the founders did not explicitly define "natural-born citizen," leaving room for doubt and debate.<\/p>\n

While Cruz has told reporters his eligibility to become president is "settled law" because his mother was an American citizen when he was born and never renounced her American citizenship while she was a Canadian resident. Many constitutional theorists agree with Cruz that it’s not really up for debate.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s hardly unanimous. An increasing number of high-profile constitutional law professors, including one of Cruz’s own professors from Harvard Law School, have in recent days argued publicly that Cruz’s birth disqualifies him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I don\u2019t see how we can apply \u201cnatural-born\u201d to an individual, who was hatched. Cruz should never have been allowed into this country and stopped at the border as a dangerous GMO.  In tact, the time is now tie send him Cruz\u2019in home to Canada.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though the evil Hairball was the first to bring this up, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.  More and more legal scholars are agreeing that Ted \u201cUranus (no matter how you spell it) Inspector\u201d Cruz is not eligible to be President, because he is not a natural-born citizen of the United […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}