I admit my up close knowledge of this is limited, I assume that you are referring to the children of a terrorist killed in a drone strike some years back?
He was a naturalized “American” because he was born on American soil?
I think you and I are correct in thinking that the “Jus Soli” concept is abhorrent, and that the USA is one of the few sucker countries in the world that still somehow recognizes this...I don’t know why. You and I are in total agreement is is stupidity beyond the pale to allow this. Very few other countries do...I think a handful, probably less than five worldwide if my memory serves me correctly.
If the law states that being born on American soil is all that is required for someone to be a naturally born American and eligible for the Presidency (and that is apparently the interpretation however crappy) then we need to change the law and explicitly fix it. But if the law allows that, I can hardly fault Levin for making the statement that his kids had American citizenship since the residency requirement (of having to live in the USA for some time period to be legally a natural born citizen) was removed some decades ago, I think.
It is all meaningless now anyway. The Left has never had, and has no intention of adhering to law, and Republicans are only interested in maintaining a seat on the gravy train, and law and elections are now officially farces. They will allow whoever they wish to do whatever they want, and we are, at this time, powerless to do anything.
What are we going to do? Vote them out of office? Like that is going to happen...
Natural born citizen means one is naturally a citizen according to Natural Law, if one can be something else at the time of birth because of parentage or location, they are not naturally a citizen.
No made made laws are necessary for the citizenship of a natural born citizen because they could not be anything else.
No laws can change natural born citizen, either, not even that phony resolution that they passed for McCain who was born in Panama, the country, not the Canal Zone.
McCain was specifically chosen as the Designated Loser because of his ineligibility and his sympathetic story being born to parents serving abroad to cover for the Kenyanesian Usurper.
Both parties have wanted the natural born citizen clause neutered for quite some time.
George Romney was one of the first attempts to breach it.