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Ted Cruz to remain on New Jersey primary ballot?, Judge Jeff Masin heard arguments from challengers Catholic University of America law professor Victor Williams and concerned NJ citizens, Masin to rule Tuesday on Cruz natural born citizen status

Ted Cruz to remain on New Jersey primary ballot?, Judge Jeff Masin heard arguments from challengers Catholic University of America law professor Victor Williams and concerned NJ citizens, Masin to rule Tuesday on Cruz natural born citizen status

“To his kind of judge, Cruz ironically wouldn’t be eligible, because the legal principles that prevailed in the 1780s and ’90s required that someone actually be born on US soil to be a “natural born” citizen. Even having two US parents wouldn’t suffice. And having just an American mother, as Cruz did, would have been insufficient at a time that made patrilineal descent decisive.”…Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard Law Professor

“Ted Cruz wrote the forward for U.S. Constitution for Dummies which clearly reveals that he is not a natural born citizen.”…IL ballot challenger Bill Graham

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”…Abraham Lincoln

 

From NorthJersey.com April 11, 2016.

“Cruz’s nationality at center of New Jersey ballot hearing

A New Jersey judge is weighing whether Sen. Ted Cruz should be disqualified from appearing on the state’s presidential primary ballot because he was born in Canada.

Judge Jeff Masin heard arguments Monday on behalf of the Texas Republican and two challengers, including Catholic University of America law professor Victor Williams and a group of concerned New Jersey residents.

Masin says he expects to rule Tuesday on procedural questions and the underlying issue of whether Cruz satisfies the constitutional requirement that the president be a natural-born citizen.

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, to a Cuban father and an American mother. He is a U.S. citizen.”

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http://www.northjersey.com/news/cruz-s-nationality-at-center-of-new-jersey-ballot-hearing-1.1542495