oral arguments are used by the court in order to elicit information and understanding of the issues of the case....they do not have the weight of the written decision....often the justices will ask misleading or devil’s advocate type questions....to use oral argument records as proof of your assertions is a clumsy attempt to decieve....
That's true. But they've never ruled on NBC as it relates to presidential eligibility. When it comes to guessing how they might rule in such a case, studying oral arguments is better than nothing.
It's also useful to help trash a blithering birfer article author.