
Somewhere there’s a cave missing its man.
Via Daily Beast:
What? You thought only Republicans could be birthers?
In a fundraising email sent out Monday, the bombastic, bombthrowing Florida Democrat Alan Grayson included a transcript of remarks from an interview with MSNBC where he claimed that Ted Cruz was ineligible to be president. Grayson said “since Ted Cruz is a Canadian, and our Constitution requires tha[t] an American win, I’m pretty sure that it’s not going to be Ted Cruz.” Cruz, a 2016 presidential hopeful, was born in Canada but his mother was an American citizen and the Texas senator became a citizen of the United States at birth.
Although the Constitution says that the President must be a “natural born citizen,” the term is not defined. However, most legal scholars believe that anyone who is a citizen at birth is “natural born.” As Jack Markell of the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service noted in a report.
“The weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion appears to support the notion that ‘natural born Citizen’ means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship ‘at birth’ or ‘by birth,’ including any child born ‘in’ the United States (other than to foreign diplomats serving their country), the children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parent who has met U.S. residency requirements.”
