Ted Cruz Birth Certificate released by Edmonton Health District

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130818-born-in-canada-ted-cruz-became-a-citizen-of-that-country-as-well-as-u.s..ece?platform=hootsuite

[underthematrix]

1. Thank you - just tweeted to my followers

[dhol82]

2. We still don't know when his mother renounced her American citizenship

We know she became a Canadian citizen. Was she one before his birth?

Question and its answer get really murky

[SickOfTheOnePct]

3. Actually, we don't know that she became a Canadian citizen

Unless you know something that no one else does.

Damn this birther shit is crazy.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. But we do know that he is.

His is a Canadian citizen. He is also an American citizen. "Natural Born" has not yet been defined, particularly as it relates to the presidency. That's all we know.

[RB TexLa]

7. Someone has to be elected for it to go to the SC to decide.

Until Cruz or someone born outside of the US is elected we don't know what they will decide. And the term is only used in reference to eligibility to be president.

I think it's simple natural born citizen means born in the US.

[Jim Lane]

11. Maybe not even then

The Obama birthers generally lost because they didn't have standing, not because a court reached the merits and found Obama to have been born in Hawaii.

If I were a judge, I'd also be influenced by the Constitution's clear directive that Congress counts the electoral votes. That suggests to me that Congress decides which votes to count, and could decide not to count votes cast for ineligible persons. If Congress certifies the count and declares someone the winner, I don't think that decision is subject to judicial review.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. Actually, he's not a Canadian citizen

And we know that he wasn't naturalized.

So if one is an American citizen and not naturalized, then what is the other option?

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

4. You don't renounce your citizenship upon getting a 2nd citizenship

[Shrike47]

5. 2 and a half years old. Cruz renounced Canadian citizenship after it was published.

[thereismore]

9. His Canadian citizenship was never in question. nt

[Hekate]

10. But his mother's is, now that we know she was a voter in a foreign nation. She is the linchpin....

...of her son's US citizenship. Or not.

[Jim Lane]

12. Do we know that she was a voter?

What I remember reading is that her name appeared on some list of people eligible to vote. I find it quite plausible that her inclusion was a clerical error, that she never became a Canadian citizen, and that she never voted in Canada.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

13. She may have become a Canadian citizen

But she couldn't have become one by the time Cruz was born, and what she did after he was born is irrelevant.

And I'm with you, no one know that she was a voter.