Thread: U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Ted Cruz's 'birther' case

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Newspaper articles and personal comments on the internet do not have the same legal standing as court rulings.

True, however, just because certain courts ruled certain ways, does not mean the judges who ruled were correct in their decisions. There is a problem with activist judges who rule in ways the founders of this country would not agree with.

Originally Posted by Searcher932

True, however, just because certain courts ruled certain ways, does not mean the judges who ruled were correct in their decisions. There is a problem with activist judges who rule in ways the founders of this country would not agree with.

If the U.S. Supreme Court had felt the lower court made the wrong ruling they would have heard the case. They didn't hear the case because they agreed with the lower court ruling.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

If the U.S. Supreme Court had felt the lower court made the wrong ruling they would have heard the case. They didn't hear the case because they agreed with the lower court ruling.

Not necessarily...It was widely suspected that the reason the supreme court did not take up the case of Obama being a natural born citizen was because if it was ruled he was not, and Obama(the first black president) was removed from office, black people would riot like never before and they didn't want to that to happen. So it's very possible the supreme court does not always decline to take up cases because they believe the lower courts were right.

Court rulings still outweigh comments posted on the internet.

And there is still the fact that just because certain judges in certain courts ruled in certain ways, does not mean the judges who ruled were correct in their decisions. This article gives some background to the problem of what some judges are doing(and the fact that some are doing it in contempt and defiance of the founders wishes doesn't make it right) http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2006/j.../?mobile=false

NATURAL BORN DEFINITION

The Congressional Research Service declared that the practical, legal meaning of "natural born citizen" would "most likely include" not only anyone born on U.S. soil but anyone born overseas of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen.

http://www.alipac.us/f19/natural-bor...tution-253053/

Another source to consider, on what the founders specifically meant by the term natural born citizen http://birthers.org/USC/Vattel.html