There's A New Lawsuit Challenging Ted Cruz's Eligibility To Be President

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A new lawsuit challenging Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's eligibility to be president was filed last week in a federal district court in Utah.

The complaint, filed last Thursday, is the second of its kind know to have been brought against Cruz, as Donald Trump and his supporters continue to question whether the Canadian-born senator from Texas is a natural-born citizen under the Constitution.

The plaintiff, Walter L. Wagner, asserts that Cruz is not natural born as defined by the Constitution because only one of Cruz’s parents (his mother) was a U.S. citizen at his time of birth in Canada and because, he alleges, their intention at Cruz's birth was "to have residency or citizenship in a foreign (non-U.S.A.) country."

This is so, he claims, because, Cruz's "mother was a citizen of the U.S.A. and a resident of Canada seeking permanent Canadian residence at the time of defendant's birth."

Wagner is seeking a declaratory judgment from the court that Cruz is not a natural-born citizen and therefore not eligible to run for president.

In 2008, Wagner filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Energy and European Center for Nuclear Energy Research (CERN), alleging that the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator might create a black hole that could destroy Earth — and that the governmental entities were covering up this risk.

Wagner did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did a spokesperson for the Cruz campaign.

Here's the complaint:

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