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.
What you’re effectively saying is that you don’t want the Supreme Court to make a definitive decision on it then (one that you would not like, given the court’s make up).
That same Supreme Court to whom the US Constitution specifically gives the power to arbitrate issues between states, and determine ‘Constitutionality’ of laws (under which this question would fall I presume)? [this is the operative aegis the framers gave the USSC in the Constitution]
All true, except that it won't take a Supreme Court decision to make it so. It is already so. Whether you like it or not.