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Donald Trump Is Right to Retweet that Marco Rubio Is Not a Natural Born Citizen

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Donald Trump Is Right to Retweet that Marco Rubio Is Not a Natural Born Citizen                                                   By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                      February 22, 2016 Donald Trump retweeted that both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are not natural born citizens.  See https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/701045567783219201 .  George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, February 21, 2016, asked Trump on ABC’s “This Week” about his Saturday retweet and whether he really believed that Marco Rubio was not a natural born citizen.  See at about 1:30 at   https://youtu.be/R9GkFo1Kfno  ("Donald Trump on His South Carolina Primary Win, the GOP, and the Cruz Campaign Ta...

Ted Cruz Misrepresents the Law and His Being a Natural Born Citizen at Town Hall Meeting

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Ted Cruz Misrepresents the Law and His Being a Natural Born Citizen at Town Hall Meeting By Mario Apuzzo, Esq. February 18, 2016 During a CNN Republican presidential town hall in Greenville, South Carolina on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, a self-identified supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz asked him to explain why he believes that he is a natural born citizen under the Constitution even though he was born in Canada.  "In order to prevent future controversy and possible litigation will you please justify, constitutionally, your legal right to be president of the United States as it relates to your natural born status?" Julie Hershey asked Cruz. The full exchange can be seen on video at http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cruz-eligibility-cnn-town-hall   Cruz, in a style and tone as if he were arguing his case before the U.S. Supreme Court, said that he was happy that Ms. Hershey (the Justice) asked him that question.  He then answered that “the law under the Constitution and fe...

If Winston Churchill Was Not Even a Citizen of the United States, How Can Ted Cruz Be Its Natural Born Citizen?

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If Winston Churchill Was Not Even a Citizen of the United States, How Can Ted Cruz Be Its Natural Born Citizen?                                                       By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                            January 25, 2016 Under the common law the nomenclature with which the Framers were familiar when they drafted and adopted the Constitution, all children born in a country to parents who were its citizens were “natives, or natural-born citizens,” and all the rest of the people were “aliens or foreigners,” who could be naturalized by some law.  See Emer de Vattel,  The Law of Nations, or Principles of the Laws of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affa...