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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGood Memorandum re Cruz's Eligibility
Bryan Garner at the Atlantic wrote a legal piece about Cruz's eligibility that I found informative. Goes into the legalese and explains why it is "highly likely" the Supreme Court would determine Cruz is eligible. I don't really care one way or the other about whether Cruz is actually eligible, but I do find the history and the question interesting. Here's the conclusion from the piece:
All in all, it seems highly likely that the Supreme Court would today hold that the foreign-born child of a mother-citizen is eligible for the Presidency under Article II of the Constitution.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/ted-cruz-eligibility-memo/424206/
niyad
(113,552 posts)because his mother is (obama's mother, anyone??)
a very interesting article, so thank you.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)Most Democrats already were on board with the Mother as a citizen issue. It's the conservative (originalist) side that should be all over Teddy's dad being no citizen.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)the originalist faction in the SC go crazy trying to get around the paternal parent only problem.
Something like that might finally be the thing to pop a vein in Fat Tony's forehead...I'd pay big money to be there for that.