Courts Keep Dismissing Eligibility Suits Against Ted Cruz

Remember the new birtherism? That Ted Cruz might not be eligible to become president under the constitutional definition of “natural born citizen”? Ha. Of course you don’t. In 2016, it’s only news if it happened in the last couple of seconds.

But for anyone willing to revisit the last couple of months, multiple state courts have rejected or ruled against petitioners claiming that the Canadian-born Cuban-American senator could not legally become our first Canadian-born Cuban-American commander in chief. (Cruz’s mother was born in Delaware.) The lawsuits have aimed to keep Cruz off the ballot.