Ted Cruz wins citizenship case in Pennsylvania

The Texas Senator is still a US citizen

Ted Cruz is still a US citizen. (George Frey/Getty)

Ted Cruz will remain on Pennsylvania’s April 28 primary election ballot.

The Texas Senator won his citizenship case in the state’s highest court on Thursday, the Associated Press reports, upholding a lower-court’s decision to throw out the case.

Carmon Elliot, a Pittsburgh resident, argued that Cruz isn’t eligible to run for president because he was born in Canada. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied Elliot a chance to present his argument before them.

The justices upheld Commonwealth Court Senior Judge Dan Pellegrini’s order on March 11.

“The weight of legal and historical authority indicated that the term ‘natural born’ citizen would mean a person, who is entitled to US citizenship ‘by birth’ or ‘at birth’ either by being born ‘in’ the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to US citizen-parents,” Pellegrino said earlier this month.

He added, “Having extensively reviewed all articles cited in the opinion, as well as many others, this Court holds, consistent with the common law precedent and statutory history, that a ‘natural born citizen’ included any person who is a United States citizen from birth. Accordingly, because he was a citizen of the United States from birth, Ted Cruz is eligible to serve as President of the United States."

Cruz's campaign will make its first stop in Pennsylvania during the 2016 contest on Friday, Landcaster Online reports.