• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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    20 hours ago

    On a more serious note: The constitution requires you to be born a US citizen to be President which Ted Cruz was, but Musk was not

    Shame that president-elect musk wants to try to break that

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      16 hours ago

      The constitution requires you to be born a US citizen to be President which Ted Cruz was

      I want to see the extra long form birth certificate.

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      20 hours ago

      Either way, Ted was born in Calgary, Alberta.; and Trump is the one who’s wrong.

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        20 hours ago

        You can be born elsewhere and be a US citizen, at a minimum if your parents are Americans and registered you at the Embassy.

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          I wanna say it gets really tough, because “naturally born US citizen” is not further defined, as such, is inherently up to interpretation.

          So we don’t know, unless they try.

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            33 minutes ago

            Unless something drastic happens, for the next twenty to thirty years of the Supreme Court, I think it depends whether the candidate is a Republican or not.