- Sen. Ted Cruz
« Victor
Williams
Write-In
Campaign
to
Disqualify Ted Cruz
IN MARCH
2016, VICTOR WILLIAMS ENTERED THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST IN MULTIPLE
LATE-PRIMARY STATES AS A "WRITE-IN" CANDIDATE. WILLIAMS THEN LODGED
BALLOT DISQUALIFICATION CHARGES AGAINST TED "CANADIAN" CRUZ IN EACH
STATE
Victor
Williams
has lodged Ballot Disqualification Charges against Ted Cruz in
multiple states. New Jersey has now scheduled a
disqualification hearing.
These
Ballot
Disqualification Charges were filed in each of the states in which
Williams is a formally-registered and officially-declared "write-in"
candidate for the GOP presidential nomination.
The states are California, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin.
Having formally registered/declared as a GOP candidate in the sates, Williams now has "competitor candidate" legal standing to challenge Mr. Cruz -- in and out of court.
Williams thus gave litigation notice to each of the states. Failure to disqualify Mr. Cruz from the primary ballots, will lead to certain litigation. The lawsuits may be initiated ex anteor ex post the primary election dates.
Ted
Cruz
is Not a "Natural Born" American Citizen and He Obtained Ballot
Access Fraudulently.
Ted Cruz (a/k/a Rafael Edward Cruz) acknowledges the fact that he was born in Calgary Canada and even concedes that he was a Canadian citizen all his life -- until May 2014. Cruz is thus not eligible to serve as either President or Vice-President.
The U.S. Constitution's Article II, Section 1 is explicit in listing three absolute tests required for any Candidate to qualify for the presidency:
No person except a natural born Citizen...shall be eligible to the Office of President, neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen years a Resident within the United States.
Like the 14 years residency requirement, the “natural born Citizen” requirement is a test of American soil. This natural-born soil test is required only for the nation’s highest federal office – the presidency.
Ted Cruz fails this "Jus Soli" (law of the soil) test. The basic requirement of “Jus Soli” citizenship was, and is, antithetical to any statutory conferring of citizenship on children born abroad of American parents.
Mr. Cruz, whose legal career has been based on a strict construction of, and textual faithfulness to, the U.S. Constitution, knows the truth about his ballot ineligibility.
Ted Cruz has thus fraudulently obtained ballot access in each of the states where he ran (and continues to run) for the Republican nomination.
The Republican Party must reject any possibility that Ted Cruz could be the GOP nominee for either President or Vice-President.
Cruz must be disqualified from the ballot in the remaining primary sates and his pledged-delegates must either be released or not be seated at the 2016 Cleveland Nominating Convention.
This is a central -- but not the only -- focus of Williams' campaign for the GOP nomination.
Victor Williams Enters the Republican Contest As a Write-In Candidate for Later Primaries
Victor Williams has filed (formally required by filing deadlines) pre-election “write-in” declaration/oaths for the presidential primary ballots with the election officials in the states of California, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Washington.
Williams has also filed formal informational statements of “write-in” candidacy with those states that do not require filing of such formal pre-election declarations/oaths to include Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Oregon.
Additionally Candidate Williams timely applied for actual primary ballot placement in South Dakota’s June 7, 2016 primary. South Dakota does not allow “write-in” candidacies for presidential primary contests but the state does have a relatively late ballot access deadline, and a low threshold for such access.
Will
South
Dakota deny Williams ballot access while granting ballot placement to
Ted Cruz who is by his own admission a natural born Canadian? A
Disqualification Charge has been filed against Mr. Cruz in South Dakota.
Candidate Victor Williams Now Has Legal Standing to Challenge Cruz -- In and Out of Court
As a declared Candidate, formally registered to receive "write-in" votes in many of the later primary states, Victor Williams has legal standing ("competitor candidate standing") to challenge Mr. Cruz’s ballot placement with those states and standing to sue to have Mr. Cruz disqualified and removed.
This "competitor candidate standing" is much superior to the "voter standing" that has been thusfar rejected in recent challenges to Ted Cruz's ballot placement fraud.
Numerous courts have affirmed that “a candidate or his political party has standing to challenge the inclusion of an allegedly ineligible rival on the ballot, on the theory that doing so hurts the candidate’s or party’s own chances of prevailing in the election.” Hollander v. McCain, 566 F.Supp.2d 63, 68 (D.N.H.2008). '
In February 2016, a state Supreme Court ruled, quoting a federal district court, that a "write-in" candidate is judged to be a genuine opposition candidate and thus a “real” candidate regardless of any pre-election predictions as to his victory, or even any significant registry of support for the “real” candidate. Brinkmann v. Francois (Florida Supreme Court No. SC14-1899, Feb. 4, 2016).
Williams
Acts
Alone with No Support from, or Connection to, Any Other
Campaign.
It bears emphasis that Victor Williams launches this campaign and his related effort to disqualify Ted Cruz -- alone -- with no support or connection to any other campaign.
In
each of
the states in which Williams is a declared candidate, Williams is now a
formal opponent of Donald Trump, John Kasich, and Ted Cruz.
That is the nature of the state-by-state nomination contest.
The Williams campaign has lodged Challenges in the nine states in which Williams is a declared candidate -- California, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin -- demanding that Mr. Cruz be disqualified from the ballots.
Williams
has
warned the Secretary of State in each of the nine states that he is
prepared to file lawsuits to effect such remedy -- based on his
"competitor candidate" legal standing.
And
Victor
Williams is, alternatively, prepared to challenge the seating of
Cruz-pledged delegates at the Cleveland Republican Convention in July.
Ted Cruz Risks Primary Disqualification in New Jersey, Other Late-Primary States, Charges Professor Victor Williams
Washington D.C. Law Professor Victor Williams charges that Ted Cruz fraudulently certified his constitutional eligibility for office to gain ballot access. Williams demands that Cruz be disqualified from several late-primary ballots: "Cruz committed ballot access fraud in each state when he falsely swore that he was a 'natural born' American citizen." Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada and held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014. Cruz is a naturalized (not natural born) American citizen.
Williams' fraud charges had quick effect in New Jersey. Rather than accepting Cruz's ballot petition when filed last week, the Secretary of State (Kim Guadagno) scheduled the unusual Administrative Law hearing for April 11. The Canadian-born Cruz must prove that he did not falsely certify his eligibility for office.
Cruz's ballot eligibility is also being challenged in California, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington.
Late-Entrant GOP Candidate Asserts "Competitor Candidate Standing" to Disqualify Cruz
Victor Williams warns of further action if Cruz is not disqualified from New Jersey's June 7th primary. Williams has unique litigation strategy.Williams became a late-entrant GOP presidential candidate. Now his "competitor candidate" status provides the strongest "standing" to challenge Cruz.
Attacking from Cruz's left flank, Williams announced his presidential campaign with a Huffington Post commentary:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Williams is registered/declared as a "write-in" candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in multiple states. Such "write-in" candidates are considered "genuine opposition" regardless of actual chances or support. Example: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Williams' website -- VictorWilliamsforPresident.com -- details the law professor/candidate's litigation strategy. It also details Williamsunique policy positions on providing student loan debt relief and ending corporate stock buybacks.
From Hardscrabble Arkansas to Harvard then Three Law Degrees
Victor Williams is long-time attorney, law professor, and prolific scholar in Washington, D.C.
A first-generation college graduate from Arkansas, Williams earned a Harvard graduate degree and then three law degrees. Williams' scholarship has defended the Executive authority of the past four presidents – without regard to party.
Sickened by the corruption, dysfunction, and incompetence of the established political order, Professor Williams launchedwww.disruptivejustice.org in June 2014 to apply disruptive innovation theory to law and politics.
Williams is referenced as a "Republican Lawrence Lessig" (the Harvard professor who ran as a Democrat).
Williams damns the extremist, Senate-buffoonery of Ted Cruz to shut down the government, cause a public debt default, and forbid abortion for female victims of rape and incest.
Williams promises to "Put American Workers First."
Williams declares: "American workers deserve a government that works as hard as they do."
Contact:
Victor Williams or any campaign staff
Direct line: 301-951-9045
Campaign Headquarters:
5209 Baltimore Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20816
www.
Victor Williams is an attorney and law professor in Washington, D.C. After completing a federal judicial clerkship, Williams has taught law full-time since 1992.
Over the past four presidencies, Professor Williams has supported and defended the President's Article II Executive authority -- particularly in the area of appointments and foreign policy. Williams has done so without regard to the sitting President's political party.
Hardscrabble from Lower-Arkansas to Harvard and then Three Law Degrees
At the beginning of each new term, Victor Williams introduces himself to his new students as being from L.A. -- lower Arkansas.
A first generation college graduate from the desolate Delta land of Pine Bluff, Arkansas (B.A., Ouachita Baptist University), Professor Williams taught primary and secondary school before completing graduate work in education and public policy (Ed.M., Harvard University). Studying at Harvard with law-trained faculty first introduced him to the transformative potential of the law.
Prof. Williams went on to earn three law degrees (J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law; LL.M., Columbia University; LL.M.—Law and Economics, George Mason University).
While in law school at Hastings, Victor Williams worked as a federal judicial extern for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of the Eleventh Circuit and for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Sneed of the Ninth Circuit. He served for two years as a federal judicial law clerk with the U.S. District Judge Brevard Hand in Mobile, Alabama before moving to Manhattan to begin his law teaching career at CUNY.
Prof. Williams has lived the last decade in a bucolic neighborhood of Bethesda, Maryland.
He does so wishing that every city in America could have an equal peace and tranquility; he does so praying that Law and Order would become the new normal for all American communities.
In June 2014, Williams Launched a Civic Engagement and Legal Reform Project --www.disruptivejustice.org.
There are three common characteristics of Disruptive Justice’s past and ongoing litigation and civic engagement projects:
1. The litigation and civic engagement projects were designed to promote common-sense solutions to national problems. Special focus is given to those systemic policy concerns and legal problems that have been recently worsened by the dysfunctional political order establishment.
2. The litigation and civic engagement projects were based on Victor Williams’ common-sense, constitutionalist beliefs. Prof. Williams attempts to honor the profound wisdom of our Republic’s Founders and our Constitution’s Framers.
3. The litigation and civic engagement projects are often uniformly criticized by the established political order, various media elites, and the orthodox academy. This criticism may come from right or left or both. However, ordinary Americans have lent their encouragement and support to these reform efforts.
When officials and leaders of the established political order criticize Disruptive Justice’s efforts, Prof. Williams is encouraged to redouble his efforts.
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ed. Williams is listed as a clinical assistant professor of law at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law.
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