On February 1, this cert petition was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in Tuaua v U.S.A., the case over whether persons born in American Samoa should be considered U.S. citizens as a matter of constitutional law. The lower federal courts in Washington, D.C., had ruled that the 14th amendment does not guarantee automatic citizenship for persons born in U.S. territories. Persons born in the other U.S. territories are citizens, but that is because Congress passed a law saying they are. But Congress has never done that for persons born in American Samoa. Thanks to HowAppealing for the link.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Looking at the issue of R. E. “Ted” Cruz, who was born on a location of the watershed of the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada. He missed being born in the United States by almost 171
years. Between December 3, 1818 and January 30, 1819, the location
of R. E. “Ted” Cruz birth was in the organized and incorporated
Territory of Michigan.
Like American Samoa, congress has not extended citizenship to the
location of Ted Cruz birth. I guess an American Samoan can not be elected to POTUS or VPOPTUS.