Vox – by Dara Lind and Jeff Stein
The Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago has agreed to hear a lawsuit on Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility for president — virtually ensuring that the issue dominates the news in the runup to the South Carolina primary.
Cruz was born in Canada to a US citizen mother and a noncitizen father. The Constitution requires presidents be “natural-born citizens,” but what exactly that requires hasn’t been settled in court. Continue reading “Bad news for Ted Cruz: his eligibility for president is going to court”