[Citizen Blade]

These are people, who through the circumstance of their birth, are US citizens, but not Natural Born Citizens, such as American children born of parents in foreign countries, and not on the soil of a US embassy, or military base.

American bases and embassies are not US territory. That is simply an urban myth. If they were American territory, the host countries could not kick us out of them without leading to a war. Being born on a military base or embassy does not, in of itself, grant citizenship.

But, the children of American citizens born overseas, whether on a military base or not, are American citizens from birth and qualify to serve as President under the COTUS.

You, and Donofrio, are creating artificial distinctions that do no exist in either the COTUS or Federal law. There are only two classes of American citizen: naturalized (who cannot serve as President) and citizens from birth (who can).

[kabar]

I agree with everything you said except the part about US embassies. For all extents and purposes, they are treated as US soil except from local laws and regulations per international conventions and treaties. Embassies have been used as places of sanctuary from host governments in many, many cases.

[Windflier]

We’re both shooting at a target which is fuzzy and ill-defined. Who can say which of us is actually on target?

We need the SC to clarify this issue once and for all.