There was some fascinating legal coverage during the campaign, which covered this, I think on CSPAN, from some of President Trump’s team. It eviscerated the 14th Amendment justification for anchor babies.
As for the courts, they’ve been pulling stuff out of their rear for a long time.
One of the considerations that SCOTUS consistently does NOT undertake is to ask the question, “why didn’t the previous court change the original?”
Meaning, why didn’t the previous courts either define or alter the Constitutional “natural born citizen” requirement? Was it because the common-sense understanding was not being changed or considered?
Follow-on is, since the court ignored the foundational concept of NBC, whether or not this would be valid reason to retain it.
Seems that history begins with each case?
Precedent? We don’t need no stinking precedent.