Results 1 to 10 of 10
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
-
01-14-2016, 11:56 PM #1
Cruz brings up Trump's Scottish mother in rowdy 'birther' fight
Cruz brings up Trump's Scottish mother in rowdy 'birther' fight
By Ben Kamisar - 01/14/16 09:49 PM EST
Ted Cruz counter-attacked Donald Trump on the "birther" issue Thursday, arguing that under some theories, Trump would be ineligible to serve in the White House because his mother was born in Scotland.
In a long back-and-forth between the GOP’s top two contenders for the GOP presidential nomination, Cruz accused Trump of focusing on his birth in Canada because of his strong poll numbers.
“The Constitution hasn't changed, Donald's poll numbers have,” he said early on in Thursday night’s debate from North Charleston, S.C.The Texas senator noted that Trump had previously said there was “nothing to this birther issue” until Cruz started beating him at the polls in Iowa.
“The legal issue is quite straightforward, but I would note that the birther theories that Donald has been relying on, some of the more extreme ones insist that you must not only be born on U.S. soil, but have two parents born on U.S. soil,” Cruz continued.
“Under that theory, not only would I be disqualified, Marco Rubio would be disqualified, Bobby Jindal would be disqualified, and interestingly enough, Donald J. Trump would be disqualified because Donald's mother was born in Scotland,” Cruz said, referring to two other GOP presidential contenders.
Cruz added that he wouldn't use Trump's mother's birth against him and called for candidates to focus on bigger issues.
Trump interjected that Cruz wasn’t doing so because it wouldn’t work.
Trump has argued that Democrats could bring a lawsuit against Cruz serving in the White House because of his birth in Canada to an American mother.
When asked by Fox Business Network moderator Neil Cavuto why he wanted to bring the issue up now, Trump was open about the fact that it was because of Cruz's rising poll numbers.
"Because now he's doing a little bit better. No, I didn't care before, it's true," Trump said to boos from the audience.
Cruz pushed back once again by noting his service as Texas's solicitor general.
"I've spent my entire life defending the Constitution before the U.S. Supreme Court and I'll tell you, I'm not going to be taking legal advice from Donald Trump," he said.
When Trump noted that his former Harvard Law professor Lawrence Tribe agrees with him, Cruz brushed that aside too.
"Let me tell you who Larry Tribe is — he's a left-wing, judicial activist, Harvard law professor who was Al Gore's lawyer in Bush v. Gore, he's a major Hillary Clinton supporter and there's a reason why Hillary's supporters are echoing Donald's attacks on me — because Hillary wants to face Donald Trump in the general election," he said.
"If this all works out, I'm happy to consider naming you as VP so if you happen to be right, you can get the top job at the end of the day," Cruz joked.
Trump said he'd likely keep building buildings in such a scenario.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...-birther-fight
Last edited by JohnDoe2; 01-15-2016 at 01:17 AM.
NO AMNESTY
Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.
Sign in and post comments here.
Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 01:13 AM #2NO AMNESTY
Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.
Sign in and post comments here.
Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 01:23 AM #3
The rule for natural born citizen under Article II is born in the USA to two US citizen parents, natural born or naturalized. You do not have to be a natural born citizen parent. Someone born in the US to 2 US citizens that were naturalized is a natural born citizen. That would be the first generation of Americans after 1789. Cruz just revealed that he knows he's not eligible and then tried to distort the rule to apply to Trump's mother who was naturalized when Donald was born. Ted Cruz's parents could have been 2 US citizens, his mother apparently already was and his father had been here for years, had political asylum apparently, and could have easily been a US citizen when his children were born including Ted. But his father chose not to be a US citizen, he instead flew to Canada during the Vietnam War and became a Canadian Citizen making Ted a Canadian Citizen. It's highly likely that his mother also became a Canadian citizen because she had a Canadian husband and a Canadian child, but whether she did or not is irrelevant. The other two conditions of having a citizen father and born on US soil were not met.
What this exposed is bad for Cruz because it reveals that he knows the law and the natural born citizen clause which he is reinterpreting through citizenship laws instead of what the meaning actually is showing how dishonest he is in my opinion when it comes to the Constitution, to law and the truth.A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
Save America, Deport Congress! - Judy
Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 01:38 AM #4Ted Cruz counter-attacked Donald Trump on the "birther" issue Thursday, arguing that under some theories, Trump would be ineligible to serve in the White House because his mother was born in Scotland.
Last edited by Judy; 01-15-2016 at 01:41 AM.
A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
Save America, Deport Congress! - Judy
Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 04:14 PM #5
Barack Obama's citizenship questioned
Started by MinutemanCDC_SC, 11-05-2008
- Replies:5,721
- Views: 596,398
NO AMNESTY
Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.
Sign in and post comments here.
Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 04:30 PM #6
- Join Date
- Jan 2012
- Posts
- 4,815
Trump would be ineligible to serve in the White House because his mother was born in Scotland.
Show us the papers cruz - you can be a senator but not a pres or vp, same for rubio. And after your NY slur, you would not be welcome in the northeastern states so stay where you are, confined to TX, because you really can't go any further in a dual way.
Last edited by artist; 01-15-2016 at 04:59 PM.
-
01-15-2016, 04:34 PM #7
Your opinion, and yes it is only an opinion, is not shared by most constitutional scholars and legal experts. That has been proven time and time again on this forum.
http://www.alipac.us/f9/more-scholar...itizen-327467/
http://bsccomment.com/2016/01/11/why...residency.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/const...ry?id=36127821"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts athttps://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 04:39 PM #8
The only opinion that matters
is the one that the U.S. Supreme Court hasn't given yet.NO AMNESTY
Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.
Sign in and post comments here.
Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 09:46 PM #9"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts athttps://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
01-15-2016, 10:20 PM #10NO AMNESTY
Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.
Sign in and post comments here.
Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
Similar Threads
-
Ted Cruz 'birther' row focusing on Cruz's MOTHER
By JohnDoe2 in forum General DiscussionReplies: 23Last Post: 01-15-2016, 12:16 PM -
How Donald Trump made the birther attack on Ted Cruz stick
By Judy in forum General DiscussionReplies: 2Last Post: 01-14-2016, 12:26 AM -
In Iowa, Donald Trump intensifies 'birther' attack against Ted Cruz
By Judy in forum General DiscussionReplies: 21Last Post: 01-11-2016, 08:38 PM -
Donald Trump repeatedly interrupted by protesters during rowdy Miami rally
By Judy in forum illegal immigration News Stories & ReportsReplies: 5Last Post: 10-24-2015, 08:44 AM -
Trump plays the birther card on Ted Cruz
By JohnDoe2 in forum General DiscussionReplies: 0Last Post: 08-11-2013, 03:23 PM
JOE BIDEN WANTS TO BRING IN GAZA RESIDENTS AND GIVE THEM...
05-02-2024, 01:19 PM in Videos about Illegal Immigration, refugee programs, globalism, & socialism