12 Responses to “Taitz interview with Buzzfeed”

1. Paula Hoehn
   January 15th, 2016 @ 11:50 am

   Dear Orly (“well-known conspiracy theorist”, our very own “Lady Liberty”)

   It is amazing that since Donald Trump questioned Ted Cruz’s eligibility to run, the “birther” issue, which was verboten, taboo and hands-off regarding usurper-obummer for years, is now coming out into the main-street news reporting.

   That is very encouraging for me. If the courts will relent on “no standing” and hear cases about Cruz’s eligibility, perhaps their decisions will reflect on usurper-obummer’s massive non-eligibility.

   Attorney from Houston Newton B. Schwartz has now filed a suit against Ted Cruz’s “natural-born citizen,” qualification.

   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-15/cruz-s-natural-born-citizen-status-challenged-in-birther-suit

   Cruz’s ‘Natural-Born Citizen’ Status Tested in Birther Suit
   by Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Kevin Cirilli January 14, 2016 — 5:30 PM PST Updated on January 14, 2016 — 7:25 PM PST

   Excerpt:
   “The case is Schwartz v. Cruz, 4:16-cv-00106, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston).”

   ——
   Paula Hoehn

2. Steve Wittlake
   January 15th, 2016 @ 12:19 pm

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/14/ted-cruz-apparently-cited-the-gops-most-notorious-conspiracy-theorist-to-hit-donald-trump/

3. Steve Wittlake
   January 15th, 2016 @ 12:33 pm

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/14/ted-cruz-apparently-cited-the-gops-most-notorious-conspiracy-theorist-to-hit-donald-trump/

   Did Ted Cruz just cite the GOP’s most notorious conspiracy theorist to hit Donald Trump?
   One of the best exchanges of the sixth Republican presidential debate came thanks to The Washington Post. When our Robert Costa and Philip Rucker asked Donald Trump about Ted Cruz’s having been born in Canada, Trump replied that it could be a problem — kicking off more than a week of debate over whether or not Cruz was a “natural-born citizen” eligible to be president under the constitution.
   The topic came up during the debate after Cruz was asked to respond to the issue. The Texas senator wasted no time in engaging Trump on the topic — even suggesting that Trump’s citizenship might be questionable.
   CRUZ: At the end of the day, the legal issue is quite straightforward. But i would note that the birther theories that Donald has been relying on, some of the more extreme ones insist that you must not only be born on U.S. soil, but have two parents born on U.S. soil. Under that theory, not only would I be disqualified, Marco Rubio would be disqualified, Bobby Jindal would be disqualified and, interestingly enough, Donald J. Trump would be disqualified.
   TRUMP: Not me!
   CRUZ: Because — because Donald’s mother was born in Scotland. She was naturalized.
   TRUMP: But I was born here. Big difference.
   CRUZ: On the issue of citizenship, Donald, I’m not going to use the issue of your mother’s birth against you.
   TRUMP: Because it wouldn’t work.
   Trump’s right. Cruz’s theory — certainly proposed for rhetorical purposes and not sincere ones — is not one that’s actually embraced by legitimate scholars. (And to Cruz’s credit, he did label the theory “one of the more extreme ones.”)
   As we have noted before, the United States legal code doesn’t articulate what counts as “natural-born” in the constitutional sense, but it does outline very clearly who counts as a citizen at birth. Nowhere is it dictated that the parents have been born in the country.
   Where’d it come from? It seems to have originated with Orly Taitz. Taitz is a well-known conspiracy theorist who was at the center of the fight over Barack Obama’s citizenship — arguably even more deeply than Trump. A dentist and lawyer, her blog became a locus of birther arguments during the movement’s heyday. OC Weekly wrote an interesting biography of her when she first came to national prominence. (Taitz lives in Southern California.)
   In 2009, Taitz embraced the idea that both parents of a natural-born citizens also had to also be citizens. This isn’t quite the same as having been born in the U.S., but it’s pretty close. To back her position, she pointed to another blog post that suggests that the Constitution’s standard necessarily follows from Vattel’s “Law of Nations,” a 1758 predecessor to our nation’s founding document. That book says that “NATURAL-BORN CITIZENS, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.” But “Law of Nations” is not the Constitution, and the argument for applying this standard is … strained.
   That same argument was applied by Taitz again more recently. In a long blog post, Taitz argued that Cruz isn’t eligible specifically because he doesn’t meet that “Law of Nations” standard. But she’s given up on fighting it. “[D]ue to the courts unwillingness to adjudicate Obama’s lack of eligibility on the merits,” she wrote, “now anyone can be the US President.”

4. Veritas
   January 15th, 2016 @ 1:28 pm

   Trump right again : NEWSMAX–Cruz’s Citizenship Status Challenged in Birther Lawsuit

5. Davey Crockett
   January 15th, 2016 @ 1:31 pm

   Well, Mr Cruz:…they used the Vattel info way back when, and it’s the way they handled this type of question.

   Now…you were born in Canada.
   Your mother (supposedly) in the USA.
   Your father in Cuba.

   But both of your parents became Canadian citizens, in order to vote up there.

   And you were born in Canada, as well.

   Now, that says that both of your parents have (dual) loyalty!
   And you still were born in Canada.

   Can you see just how obnoxious your position is?

   You (ARE) pranking all of us off! And you (ARE) messing with our Constitution, for being “un-Constitutional!

   How many more times does someone have to say this and put this down for you to read and fully understand: Your foreign ass is illegal as hell!

   You must be related to O…! Cause he’s been this way for many years!

   We don’t want anyone screwing around with our Constitution and trying to force a damned convention, to fix something…that ain’t broke!

   The only thing wrong here is: You, Rubio, and Santorum!

   So the big question is still this: Why are you and the other (2) “foreigners” trying to push this situation? And (WHO?) put you people up to this?

   The answer to this will show that no true American citizen would try to pull this kind of nonsense!

   So you and the other (2) need to: tune in, turn on, and DROP OUT! Can this get any clearer?

   And any liberal professor of law is not a true judge of what is or isn’t the right way!

   This is all going to come back to haunt you guys…so why not be a good citizen, you claim to be, and do what’s right for America?

6. Kevin J Lankford
   January 15th, 2016 @ 6:01 pm

   Well, the news media and all the fake conservative radio hosts such as limbaugh (and deserving mention, 106.3 of greenville S.C.) have been abuzz today disseminating cruz’s propaganda bomb from the debate, of his distorted and traitorous definition of “Natural Born” citizen, in the the hope that we are all just uncomprehending fools.

   Only the ignorant, traitorous liars, or cowards, refer to obama as president. Only the ignorant, traitorous liars, or cowards, claim cruz, rubio, or jindal, are “Natural Born” U.S. citizens.

7. J. Eric
   January 16th, 2016 @ 10:27 am

   When that piece of shit in the White House now can sit there for eight years with a fraudulent birth certificate and SSN, and having claimed to have studied Constitutional law when he in fact did African-American studies and “race relations” at Harvard, with his transcripts never having been released and with him never having published a thing (even his autobiography was written by Bill Ayers,) and still not have it be challenged or even questioned, Ted Cruz, a true patriot, is absolutely ok with me to be our president.

8. Virginia W.
   January 16th, 2016 @ 4:27 pm

   Speaking of radio hosts, Michael Savage is the ONLY one brave enough to come out in full support of Mr. Donald Trump. Let’s give him our full support, please. 12:00 P.M. PST, 3:00 P.M. EST on talkstreamlive.com

   God bless Orly, Trump, their families, patriots & may God bless America.

9. Kevin J Lankford
   January 17th, 2016 @ 6:28 am

   @ #8 Virginia;

   I think it obvious savage is not truly invested in supporting Trump, or condemning cruz.

   Any one not addressing the most serious issue of cruz’s, along with rubio’s, jindal’s, and most immediately critical obama’s, lack of “Natural Born” citizenship status, is just not centered on real legitimate concerns.

   After all this time, any one who will still avoid or deny the true definition and source of the term “Natural Born Citizen”, and that it could only have come from Emmerich de Vattels well known, nation wide, book “The Law of Nation, is at the center of the problem, and are definitely nothing but controlled opposition.

   Only the ignorant, traitorous liars, or cowards, will refer to obama as president. Only the ignorant, traitorous liars, or cowards, claim cruz, rubio, or jindal, are “Natural Born” U.S. citizens.

10. Rick Besada
    January 17th, 2016 @ 6:51 am

    Orly Taitz for president. It ‘s amazing that the only patriotic person who seems to be concerned about our laws, with the exception of Donald Trump, is a foreign born naturalized American citizen who is willing to fight for her beliefs, not run, like a feckless Republican.

11. Virginia W.
    January 17th, 2016 @ 3:06 pm

    You’re absolutely wrong Kevin. Just one instance .. and there are many:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZMJ2bUpEVE

12. Davey Crockett
    January 18th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm

    Hey, poster #7:

    It’s too bad you are ready to settle for Cruz, even though he is (NOT!) eligible!

    Cruz is possibly going to bring this mass insanity to America, again, with the nonsense of not being able to run for the Office, like O has done!

    Have you not considered what this nation is going to go through, if this Canadian doesn’t act like a (REAL) Patriot, by backing off and not pushing this?

    No one with a brain cannot see this! Being born in Canada and having both parents with dual loyalty is enough evidence that says: He’s not eligible!

    So what have you been “sniffing?”

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