Obama “became a citizen at birth and is a natural-born citizen,”
Just with what you cited, if the judge made the assumption that being a citizen by birth makes one a natural born citizen then he doesn’t know the difference between a citizen by birth and a natural born citizen.
And did he make this decision after ex parte contact(s) from the president’s counsel, who defaulted earlier by failing to appear at any hearings with his client? That would certainly be a clear ethical violation(s).
And what documentation proved Obama was even born in the US? A fraudulent copy of a birth certificate? Still waiting on the good Sheriff Arpaio to get the microfilmed Hawaii birth certificates but not holding my breath...
There might have been, in the past, but times have changed.
Common Law is trumped by legislation.
The Constitutional “Natural Born Citizen” language has remained valid, of course, but the definition of that term can and has been changed by Congress.
It has always been true that a Natural Born Citizen was a Citizen from the moment of birth. That was harder to achieve under Common Law rules, but those rules no longer control the matter.