@Fishrrman
I had no idea he wasn't born in the US.
Will this keep him off the Supreme court?
Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada. His mother was a US citizen (I don't know whether she's still alive so I speak in the past tense). Despite arguments routinely made here, Cruz is a natural born US citizen and is fully eligible to be POTUS, as well as to fulfill any other Federal office.
A "natural born citizen" is someone who is a citizen
at birth, and Cruz was; he has never been naturalized, because he didn't need to be. He was also a Canadian citizen by virtue of being born in Canada; when he realized that he renounced Canadian citizenship.
I suspect there will now be an avalanche of postings arguing that Cruz is not a natural born citizen because he was not born on US soil. Some of those arguments are based on careful study and reflection and commendable research, others are simply residual anger that Cruz had the
temerity, the
unmitigated gall, to be the last man standing against
The Almighty Trump during the 2016 R primaries. Some will argue that merely being born on US soil is also not enough to be a "natural born" citizen of the US, and that someone must be born
both on US soil
and of US citizen parents. But none of those arguments are correct.
"Natural born" simply means a citizen at birth. However that happens, whether someone is born on US soil or born of US citizen parents elsewhere, they are eligible to become POTUS.
If someone argues otherwise, they need to cite the specific articles of the Constitution, or of subsequent acts of Congress, which say so. All the Constitution says is "natural born."