Trump might actually be right for once

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Trump might actually be right for once.
On the other hand, a broken clock is right twice a day and thus arguably twice as accurate as the Donald any day of the week.
Even so, after years as a widely ridiculed Barack Obama birther devotee, Trump’s recent assertion that Republican President contender Texas Senator Ted Cruz is not a natural born citizen and thus ineligible to be president or vice president of the United States might actually have some plausible merit.
In a surprising display of balance and fairness, the Washington Post ran an opinion page piece written by Mary Brigid McManamon, a constitutional law professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School, and in which Professor McManamon lays out a compelling argument that Cruz is not a natural born citizen both in general as well as in pointed response to an earlier opinion piece in the Post that was written by Case Western University Law Professor Jonathan H. Adler and who argued that Cruz was a natural born citizen and thus eligible to serve.
Of particular interest is how McManamon lays out both historical discussion by relevant parties to the development of the US Constitution as well as a strict construction perspective and of which Cruz has long espoused as his legal philosophy about the constitution whereas Adler based much of his column on the work of Harvard scholars who are broad constructionists and thus anathemas to Cruz per one of his law school professors.
Both sides can argue as they may – after all, they are lawyers; however, at the end of the day germane case law is virtually non-existent, much less definitive, and thus the final call could well end up on the docket at the US Supreme Court.
In the meanwhile, no one has offered up a definitive opinion – one way or the other – as to the authenticity of the color of the Donald’s curious shade of orange hair.
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