No, this is controversial with qualified experts on coming down on both sides. You or I could not claim to know how this would turn out if it were litigated. So it is not the end of the story. The end of the story will be when Cruz wins the election and the Democrat he ran against files a lawsuit and it ends up in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court would decide the end of the story.
Clarence Thomas admitted that they ducked the Obama ineligibilty.
If forced to decide, they will uphold Precedent Obama and embrace the new definition of “born a citizen”, even though they know it means born here of citizen parents excluding the possiblity of any divided loyalty or allegiance.
If one can be anything else at birth, one cannot be a natural born citizen.
The new definition of simply being born a citizen, even if only one one’s mother’s side, makes every anchor baby with no loyalty to America and Winston Chrurchill eligible.
No, SCOTUS wil almost certainly never address the issue, but will let the qualifications for office be handled by the political apparatus, under the “political question” doctrine. I would be truly surprised to see them ever take this up. As I’ve said elsewhere, we’re wasting time on this. Cruz is not the person the founders were trying to block from rising to be Commander in Chief. They were worried about real threats, down-to-the-bone monarchists like Fredrick, Duke of York, or Prince Henry, coming over here, getting naturalized, winning the presidency, and pushing us back under a monarchy. If folks want to go beyond what the Constitution presently says, they need to amend it. I’m all for that. But I seriously doubt the Vattell language will make the final draft of any amendment proposed during an Article 5 convention.
Peace,
SR