Ted Cruz Hopes Canadian Citizenship Process Is 'Completed Soon,' Spokeswoman Says

[dinar_stud]

Ted Cruz Hopes Canadian Citizenship Process Is 'Completed Soon,' Spokeswoman Says

 

 

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Canadian-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has yet to renounce his Canadian citizenship as promised, but looks forward to the process being completed soon.

 

 

Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the tea party darling from Texas, said Saturday that lawyers are preparing the paperwork.

 

 

She said Cruz, who was born in Calgary, Alberta, "has been fully focused on fighting for Texans' values and interests" and that he "looks forward to the process being completed soon."

 

 

Cruz took office just last year, but is already being mentioned as a possible Republican presidential contender in 2016.

 

 

Amid questions about his eligibility, Cruz released his birth certificate in August. He also pledged to renounce his Canadian citizenship.

 

 

Fraizer's response comes after a Canadian immigration attorney said the process was simple and wondered about the delay.

 

 

PS: Where are the birthers for this case??

 

 

[dog53]

hahahahahahahaha

[Artitech]

Whats your point? We all know little "o" is a Kenyan Marxist. There is no tellin where, that white trash mama of his was, when the half breed was born. She sure wasn't in the U.S. The AZ Sheriff Joe has proved beyond a doubt that all of the little "o"s documents are forged. Senator Cruz has been truthful and up front about his birth. The little "o" is one biggest Liars that I have ever seen. He will tell a lie when the truth is easier. I hate a thief and a liar. not saying the little "o" is a thief, if you are one, your usally the other too. I do know for a fact, the little"o" has admited to felony drug possession, he just was not caught, if he would had contact with law enforcement at time of his felonious activities we wouldn't even know the little "o"s name. To bad he wasnt commitin his felonies in Texas cause he would have got his little a$$ busted!  

[sillyjilly]

You can have him, we will even throw in Justin Beiber but we want William Shatner back!

[yota691]

[DinarDavo]

 

 

"DEFEND?"......My bad.....thought it said "DEFILE"

[TexasGranny]

Ted Cruz was elected by 57+% of Texas voters. He is doing exactly what he promised he would do - make every effort to stop the Federal Government from taking over our lives.

 

Ted Cruz's bio on wikipedia gives a pretty good rundown on why this man is so highly thought of in Texas.

 

Education

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,^[26] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.^[11] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.^[20] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.^[18]

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.^[2][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.^[27] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).^[27] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.^[28]

Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."^[24][29]

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.^[2][30] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.^[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."^{[12][31][32][33][34][35]} At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.^[36]

Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.^[36][37]

Legal career Clerkships

Cruz giving a speech to the Montgomery County Republican Party meeting held in Conroe, Texas, on August 19, 2013

Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995^[4][36] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.^[2] Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.^[38]

Private practice

After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.^[39]

In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner's lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.^[40]

Bush Administration

Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.^[39]

Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.^[36][41]

After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department^[2][41] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.^[2][12][41]

Texas Solicitor General

Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,^[4][42] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.^[20][36]

Cruz has authored more than 80 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.^[4][12][22] Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.^[43] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."^[43]

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.^[22][44] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.^[22][45]

In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.^[12][22][36]

In 2004, Cruz was involved in another high-profile case, which was Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.^[12][36] In Newdow, Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that a non-custodial parent does not have standing in court to sue to stop a public school from requiring its students to recite of the Pledge of Allegiance.^[12][36] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief in a 9-0 decision.

Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.^[36][46]

Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.^{[4][12][22][36]}

Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,^[42][47] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,^[48][49] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.^[50][51]

 

 

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Just thought some of you that think he is a "wacko" might like to know who you are talking about. Oh yeah, personal disclaimer: I have met him personally and campaigned on his behalf. He is the same in person and so is his Father.  Both of them are down to earth, patriots who care about our country and the U. S. Constitution.

 

[dog53]

Ted Cruz was elected by 57+% of Texas voters. He is doing exactly what he promised he would do - make every effort to stop the Federal Government from taking over our lives.

 

Ted Cruz's bio on wikipedia gives a pretty good rundown on why this man is so highly thought of in Texas.

 

Education

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,^[26] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.^[11] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.^[20] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.^[18]

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.^[2][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.^[27] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).^[27] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.^[28]

Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."^[24][29]

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.^[2][30] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.^[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."^{[12][31][32][33][34][35]} At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.^[36]

Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.^[36][37]

Legal career

Clerkships

Cruz giving a speech to the Montgomery County Republican Party meeting held in Conroe, Texas, on August 19, 2013

Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995^[4][36] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.^[2] Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.^[38]

Private practice

After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.^[39]

In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner's lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.^[40]

Bush Administration

Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.^[39]

Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.^[36][41]

After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department^[2][41] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.^[2][12][41]

Texas Solicitor General

Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,^[4][42] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.^[20][36]

Cruz has authored more than 80 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.^[4][12][22] Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.^[43] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."^[43]

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.^[22][44] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.^[22][45]

In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.^[12][22][36]

In 2004, Cruz was involved in another high-profile case, which was Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.^[12][36] In Newdow, Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that a non-custodial parent does not have standing in court to sue to stop a public school from requiring its students to recite of the Pledge of Allegiance.^[12][36] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief in a 9-0 decision.

Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.^[36][46]

Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.^{[4][12][22][36]}

Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,^[42][47] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,^[48][49] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.^[50][51]

 

 

*******************************************************

 

Just thought some of you that think he is a "wacko" might like to know who you are talking about. Oh yeah, personal disclaimer: I have met him personally and campaigned on his behalf. He is the same in person and so is his Father.  Both of them are down to earth, patriots who care about our country and the U. S. Constitution.

 

 

[DinarDavo]

"DEFEND?"......My bad.....thought it said "DEFILE"

 

TG.....this is the post previously mentioned that I hoped to edit. I didn't know if the sarcasm sufficiently came across and wanted folks to know that I do fully support and appreciate all that Senator Cruz is doing to restore our fallen republic. As a matter of fact I came up with a T-shirt idea that I was going to pass along but figured it would draw lotsa heat:

 

"ONE CRUZ MISSILE WOULD FIX DC"

[dinar_stud]

Whats your point? We all know little "o" is a Kenyan Marxist. There is no tellin where, that white trash mama of his was, when the half breed was born. She sure wasn't in the U.S. The AZ Sheriff Joe has proved beyond a doubt that all of the little "o"s documents are forged. Senator Cruz has been truthful and up front about his birth. The little "o" is one biggest Liars that I have ever seen. He will tell a lie when the truth is easier. I hate a thief and a liar. not saying the little "o" is a thief, if you are one, your usally the other too. I do know for a fact, the little"o" has admited to felony drug possession, he just was not caught, if he would had contact with law enforcement at time of his felonious activities we wouldn't even know the little "o"s name. To bad he wasnt commitin his felonies in Texas cause he would have got his little a$$ busted!  

.

Solid proof birtherism is racially motivated.

[captl1]

I think he is a fake....Would vote for Dr. Ben Carson in a minute....oh wait he's black and born in the USA.  No Race card here.

[gymrat76541]

Ted Cruz has ZERO chance of winning in 2016.

(The Tea Party mouthpiece)

 

He may in fact win the Republician nomination, but the GOP has shot themselves in the foot but screwing up Congress, shutting down the government & abusing Obama. In their efforts to make Obama look bad (limited success), they have done even more damage to themselves!

 

Never been so glad to be an independent.

 

[Bunk]