Monthly Archives: January 2016

New Cruz lawsuit filed in Texas

Texas attorney Newton Boris Schwartz, Sr. has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Houston claiming that Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president of the United States because he was born in Canada. The case is 4:16-cv-00106. Schwartz … Continue reading

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Not a foreigner

It is very likely that the words “natural born citizen” in the US Constitution were prompted by future Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay in a letter to George Washington around the time the words were added to the draft … Continue reading

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Bernie Sanders: Nobody has ever asked me for my birth certificate

I copied that title from a CNN story from this past Monday, Sanders noting that HIS father was born in Poland. Sanders suggests that perhaps racism is behind some of this birth certificate hysteria occupying the sanctuary of the national … Continue reading

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Originalism and natural born citizenship

With the Canadian-born Ted Cruz running for president, once again the question of what the obscure term in the US Constitution, “natural born citizen,” means enters the national debate. Can only persons born in the country be president, or does … Continue reading

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New scholarly paper on “natural born citizen”

If 2015 was the “year of Arpaio” in the sense that his legal troubles kept this blog afloat with topical material, 2016 promises to be the year of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz with natural born citizen’s definition being all … Continue reading

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Where’s the Consular Report of Birth Abroad?

The Ted Cruz conspiracy theories heat up, while the constitutional argument simmers, stirred by Donald Trump. My Google alerts feed a steady stream of “natural born citizen” stories about Ted Cruz. Now Cruz has released his mother’s birth certificate. Why … Continue reading

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