Here’s my question. Do you really want the 9th Circuit Court in California to decide? Do you want Paul Ryan or McConnell to say Cruz is not NBC and let that stand as it seems Nancy Pelosi did for Obama’s eligibility?
In the end, the final arbiter on this would be the USSC (or in the case of letting stand a lower court’s decision). And, yes, I realize what a bunch of quislings some of the justices are now, but that’s what we have.
Personally, I think in the end the court would rule it favorably for Cruz, even against its likely sympathy to the Democrat side, SOLELY because it would not want to preclude another ringer (this time openly foreign Muslim, illegal, pick one) like Obama.
Any binding ruling on the precise meaning of the NBC clause should serve to strengthen it, not weaken it.
If the Supreme Court rules that Ted is eligible, then in future, any person with one American parent, no matter where they’re born, can seek to be our president. If such a person has sufficient voter support, they can become our president.
I don’t want that, and it’s absolutely not what the Framers intended.