butterdezillion opined: “At this point I have no way of knowing which of the researchers and/or lawyers are genuine and which are disinformation agents throwing out false stuff just to throw a monkey wrench in the works for those who are genuine.”
There are ways. For example, look at what people were saying *before* the particular individual was at issue. Which of the “researchers and/or lawyers” from whom we now here were, before 2008, arguing that for a native-born citizen to eligible for the presidency, both of his or her parents had to be citizens? Near as I can tell, the answer is zero.
Edition after edition of Blacks Law Dictionary defined “natural-born citizen” as one born in the jurisdiction of a national government. The sixth edition included, “i.e. in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens temporarily residing abroad.” Who said that was wrong, and said so before they needed reasons to deny that Obama can be president?
Could this have been from o-bot disinformation agents: “It is clear enough that native-born citizens are eligible and that naturalized citizens are not.” [Who Can Be President of the United States: The Unresolved Enigma, 28 Md. L. Rev. 1, 19 (1968).] Barack Obama would have been seven years old at the time.
Obama was a college undergrad when the United States Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit considered illegal alien Sebastian Diaz-Salazar’s petition to stay deportation, and wrote: “The petitioner has a wife and two children under the age of three in Chicago; the children are natural-born citizens of the United States.” [Diaz-Salazar v. INS, 700 F.2d 1156 (7th Cir. 1983) http://openjurist.org/700/f2d/1156/diaz-salazar-v-immigration-and-naturalization-service ]
How about: “It is well settled that ‘native-born’ citizens, those born in the United States, qualify as natural born.” [Jill Pryor, ‘The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility’, 97 Yale Law Journal 881-889 (1988).] Obama was still unknown, as he first made news when elected president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.
Plus, who considered Leo Donofrio and Mario Apuzzo to be legal scholars before this Obama eligibility stuff? If they were not such before, how could they be now? They’ve gotten nothing through peer review and in court they’ve face-planted every time.
This deportation case is absolutely worthless to the OBot cause. President Carter appointed comrade judge Cudahy who put that in his opinion and who only regurgitated the illegal immigrant lawyer's lamination. If you had been paying attention in the last 2 1/2 years here, you would have likely saw that this bit is totally unsupported obit dicta. And BTW, the illegal immigrant was deported despite the nonsense by circuit judge Cudahy.
““It is well settled that ‘native-born’ citizens, those born in the United States, qualify as natural born.” [Jill Pryor, ‘The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility’, 97 Yale Law Journal 881-889 (1988).]”
It is her opinion, NOT settled law. I’ve already told you once, she is a left-wing shill.