Finally we can put to rest the question some have raised regarding the eligibility of Ted Cruz being president as he was born in Canada.
Cruz is a citizen; Cruz is not naturalized; therefore Cruz is a natural-born citizen, and in any case his mother is a citizen. You can read the CRS memo at bottom; here’s amuch longer and more detailed 2011 version.
The Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago has agreed to hear a lawsuit on Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility for president — virtually ensuring that the issue dominates the news in the runup to the South Carolina primary.
Cruz was born in Canada to a US citizen mother and a noncitizen father. The Constitution requires presidents be “natural-born citizens,” although it hasn’t been settled in court as of yet.
“Joyce said his concern is that the eligibility issue lie unresolved during Republican primaries, thus letting the Democrats take advantage of it after a potential Cruz nomination, when it’d be too late,” reports the Washington Examiner.
This isn’t the first time someone has questioned a candidate’s citizenship — and not just on bogus, Kenyan grounds. There were questions about John McCain’s citizenship, because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone when his father was stationed there in the Navy. George Romney was born in Mexico to American parents, but faced no serious challenges to his bona fides in his 1968 run for the GOP nomination, though a few diehards even questioned his son Mitt’s qualifications in 2012.
Proof Cruz is Eligible:
Update March 1, 2016:
Prominent Birther Loses Again As IL Judge Dismisses Challenge Against Ted Cruz
Lawerence Joyce of Poplar Grove, IL is one of the most prominent birthers in the country. The hospital pharmacist and occasional lawyer was among those who challenged Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President in 2008 and into 2009. Those challenges against Obama went absolutely nowhere.
Flash-forward to 2016 and Mr. Joyce is continuing his birther crusade this time against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
In January Mr. Joyce filed an objection to Cruz with the Illinois Board of Elections seeking to have him removed from the March 15th primary ballot contending that Cruz is ineligible to be President of the United States because he is not a Natural Born Citizen as is called for in Article II of the Constitution.
Things did not go well for Mr. Joyce.
The Illinois Board of Elections not only dismissed his challenge against Cruz but also affirmatively declared that Ted Cruz was indeed a Natural Born Citizen, end of discussion.
This rejection prompted Joyce to file a lawsuit in Cook county again seeking to have Cruz disqualified from the Illinois primary. On Monday afternoon Judge Maureen Ward Kirby dismissed that lawsuit agreeing with Cruz’s lawyer Sharee Langenstein that the suit was invalid because Mr. Joyce had failed to properly serve either Cruz or the members of the state Board of Elections.
Langenstein told the Chicago Tribune Tuesday, “”This lawsuit was merely a misguided attempt to distract the voters away from the candidate who’s the most qualified candidate we have for president, and that’s Sen. Ted Cruz.”
Yet again Mr. Joyce has found himself and his stupid birther legal claims laughed out of court and the fool had the temerity to tell the Chicago Tribune that he wasn’t sure he if was going to appeal the Judge’s ruling today.
Get a clue man (and that goes for all birthers including Donald Trump) Ted Cruz was a citizen of these United States the moment he was born therefore he is a natural born citizen and meets all constitutional requirements to run for and one day be President.
