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I’m sick of popcorn.
Anyone have any pretzels or junior mints?
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The Texas bar exam must consist of a dozen true/false questions, if this bozo passed it.
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Marshmallows?
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Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb!
Hah. Takes a shade tree TX attorney to junk up a lawsuit with all kinds of extraneous stuff, usually leading to it getting kicked out.
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Newton B. Schwartz, Sr isn’t too bright is he? If he’s leaning toward Bernie Sanders he should hope and pray the least electable guy on the GOP’er slate, Cruz, is their man.
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The suit doesn’t make any sense. So US women who go overseas to work or just visit for awhile and get pregnant and have a kid in a overseas hospital that means their kid won’t be a US citizen. Sorry, but don’t buy it.
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" The rambling 28-page complaint brings all sorts of seemingly unrelated issues, including the Texas abortion case the Supreme Court will hear in March, the case it recently heard on public unions’ fee structures and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s call for a Constitutional Convention."
It sounds like he swept together a day’s worth of comments at TPM, printed it on blue-lined paper, and filed it.
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He’s 85 years old. Perhaps the blade has dulled a bit.
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The child will be a US Citizen. Whether he will be a natural born citizen is the question.
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I’m surprised common law added an exception for the father in the 18th century, since until DNA testing was available in the 20th century, the only parent that was verifiable was the mother, and even then one would be depending on witnesses of the birth.
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You should stop snacking now and give yourself a good colonic. Its going to be a long election season, and you will have to stay fit to enjoy it all.
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I am sure there have been many cases in local elections where a court orders the Board of Elections to remove [or restore] a name on a ballot, so I don’t see a “standing” problem. And I am not sure that the equal protection clause would save Cruz, because I don’t see how his mother becomes a party to the suit, and she is the one being possibly denied equal protection of the law. A woman in the same situation as Cruz would also not be a “natural born citizen”. [Note: you can be a citizen at birth under statute law, and still not be a “natural born citizen” under the Constitution.]
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If I’m not mistaken, what Tribe and others whom O’Donnell has talked to about this have said is that it requires “standing” to challenge Cruz’s nationality, which would mean someone directly affected by Cruz’s run for the presidency, and that might be Trump or another R candidate, but not necessarily a Democratic candidate.
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I keep telling you to break out the Jamison’s Irish Whisky.
Or, if cash is kinda tight, you could get some Tito’s Handmade Vodka. You’d probably be brain dead afterward’s but, hey, what the hell.
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Hey, you kids, get off my filing!
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He may be a citizen, but can’t be President.
Stop by a military hospital for the birth, if someone is so sure that the kid is going to be a future president.
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That does seem to be a difficult distinction for some folks to wrap their heads around.
Not sure why - seems pretty simple to me.
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If a child is born to a woman on U.S. soil, and she is a U.S. citizen married to a citizen of another nation, there is no controversy or dispute the child is a U.S. citizen. We don’t penalize U.S. women for marrying someone with citizenship in another nation. What most prominently seems to complicate the Cruz situation is he was born on Canadian soil.
In light of that, why would any pregnant U.S. woman in a dual nationality marriage, wanting no dispute of the citizenship of her child, travel to another country anywhere past about the fifth month of pregnancy? Does the law actually intend to put the citizenship status of that child in question merely because the pregnant mother was vacationing in Thailand?
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