Lastly, and here’s the kicker, supreme Court justices are sometimes wrong. Any ruling may be overturned. “This judge said this .. this judge said that ...” At some point, it’s a waste of time.
All that matters is the logic of the words and the meaning of the words.
And orginalism is the best way to understand both logic and meaning.
Glad you agree. The reasoning of the Supreme Court and lower courts is clear: to define "natural-born citizen," you must resort to "common law." You cannot find resort in an English translation of de Vattel that just so happened to have translated his French to "natural-born citizen," particularly since it is not beyond dispute that "natural-born citizen" is the ONLY way to translate that phrase.