[Stepan12]

What the dicta says may be interesting, but the dicta is not a ruling. It has discussion and debate value; not legal value.

And that includes the dicta of Wong Kim Ark, also. It is the ruling of Minor vs Happerstat (sp) that matters; not the dicta of Wong Kim Ark or any other such court case.

[Seizethecarp]

“What the dicta says may be interesting, but the dicta is not a ruling. It has discussion and debate value; not legal value.”

...unless the dicta in question can be spun to make the circumstances of Barry’s birth sound qualifying for him to be POTUS...at least past Nov. 2012!