Cruz may not be legally a Senator, much less a Pres. candidate.

[Jim Lane]

140. Thanks for your research!

I was pretty sure that the law was as you state. I felt on the one hand an obligation to look it up and refute the erroneous OP, but on the other hand felt that I'd already wasted too much of my life dealing with birtherism, whether of the right or the left.

The nonfiling of the form is a nonissue. The only avenue for attacking Cruz's citizenship would be to question whether his mother met the residency requirements referred to in your excerpt. I learned recently that she spent at least some time living in Europe with her first husband before getting divorced, returning to the U.S., and then moving to Canada with her second husband (Cruz's father). That makes it at least remotely conceivable that she didn't live in the U.S. for the requisite time period.