That’s an interesting point about the Judges in Illinois.
They aren’t judges..they are State bureaucrats and probably don’t know the law any better than you do. That is why Raphael sent his team of weasel word lawyers, to make sure that the State only got their interpretation of the NBC requirement.
The Illinois Election board had a reasonably well drafted complaint from one Lawrence J. Joyce, as well as Cruz's response. Cruz's response utterly failed to address the arguments made in the complaint. The election board decision is summary in nature, stating only a conclusion (a person who does not undertake a naturalization process is not naturalized), and not addressing the case law cited in the complaint, that holds to the contrary.