CHICAGO — A judge will hear arguments on Friday from an Illinois voter alleging that Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is not a "natural-born citizen" and should be disqualified for the party's nomination.
Lawrence Joyce, an Illinois voter who has objected to Cruz's placement on the Illinois primary ballot next month, will have his case heard in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago. Joyce's previous objection, made to the state's Board of Elections, was dismissed on February 1. He appealed the decision and was granted a hearing for Friday before Judge Maureen Ward Kirby.
Joyce challenges Cruz's right to be president in the wake of questions put forth by GOP rival Donald Trump about being born in Canada. Cruz maintains he is a natural-born citizen since his mother is American-born.
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I don't remember seeing any loopholes in the Constitution. Actually it's pretty straight forward. All the elected government officials swear to uphold it. The Kenyan king is illegitimate according to it.
8:28 AM - I'm not sure who you're referring to but if you are talking about our current President, he was born in Hawaii in 1961 to an American mother. Perfectly legitimate since Hawaii became a state in 1959.
It's your prerogative to dislike him and his policies. It's just ignorant to perpetuate a lie.
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It is my understanding that at time of his birth his 17 year old mother was ostensibly married to his purported father, a Kenyan on a student visa. Kenya was part of the British empire still so Barack Obama, Sr. was a British subject.
Again, it is my understanding that US law at the time stated the child of a US minor married to a foreign national would follow/carry/receive the nationality of the father.
To best of my knowledge, no one has produced a marriage license for his mother and reputed father. His reputed father already had a wife in Kenya so US laws would not permit him to marry here, if he was honest. That is why so much interest surrounded the circumstances of his birth, and so much discussion of the initial lack of a birth certificate, and the appearance of the one proffered later.
The child is not responsible for misdeeds or poor judgement by the parent/s.
A charitable view is that he's an illegitimate child, but was probably a citizen since his mother wasn't actually married and she was clearly a US citizen. That carries us/him as far as her later marriage to an Indonesian who adopted him. Fresh set of murkiness surrounds that process and later events in his life.
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