Flip side: there is nothing in law saying someone is qualified to be POTUS given a non-citizen parent. There has been some obfuscation of this issue, especially as pressed by opponents of “anchor baby” citizenship, and by recent historical scholarship noting that President Chester Arthur went to great lengths to conceal his father’s citizenship in a matter comparable to Obama’s BC issue. It’s reasonable to assume the Founding Fathers made a distinct, if imperfect, effort to prevent those of divided loyalties from becoming President. There’s enough confusion that it’s time for the Supreme Court to weigh in.
There is nothing in the law that says someone with red hair is qualified to be POTUS, either. We can't add extra requirements that aren't in the COTUS.
There’s enough confusion that it’s time for the Supreme Court to weigh in.
I agree. I think that this issue needs to be resolved, one way or the other. Especially since we're entering an era where many Americans have one or more parents who are note native-born American citizens. I'm a naturalized US citizen, but also a citizen of two other countries. My son, though born here in DC, is a citizen of the US, plus two other countries. There may be millions of Americans out there with similar statuses.