The question of whether or not Ted Cruz can serve as president of the United States is heading to court.
A judge has agreed to hear a lawsuit filed against the presidential hopeful by Illinois voter Lawrence Joyce.
CNN
reports that the case will be heard in Cook County Circuit Court in
Chicago on Friday in response to Joyce's claim that Cruz should not
appear on the ballot for next month's Illinois primary because he was
born in Canada.
Cruz
has stated before that he is an American citizen despite being born in
Canada and having a Cuban father because his mother is American.
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Possible trouble: A Cook County
Circuit Court judge in Chicago, Illinois will hear a lawsuit on Friday
filed against Ted Cruz (above on Thursday)
Debate: Cruz's birth certificate issued in Canada which identifies his mother as American
Donald
Trump has frequently questioned Cruz's eligibility throughout his
campaign, and even wrote on Twitter last week; 'If @TedCruz doesn’t
clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have
standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen.'
Trump
has said if Cruz were to become the Republican Party's presidential
nominee, Democratic partisans could sue in order to have his candidacy
nullified, throwing the GOP into chaos just a few months before the
November election.
There
is another lawsuit that has been filed against Cruz as well in Alabama,
where five voters are also hoping a judge will hear their case and have
him removed from that state's primary ballot.
AL.com reports that those five individuals are all Trump supporters.
Joyce, the man who filed in Illinois, supports Ben Carson.
The
Illinois case will be heard one day before the South Carolina primary
this Saturday, a state where Cruz is running second to Trump in polls
with Marco Rubio a close third.
A Fox News poll has Cruz leading Trump nationally for the first time.
Cruz has yet to respond to this news.
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