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What makes it a fallacy of Authority is that none of SCOTUS wrote the law, so they are only expressing opinions of opinions. Better to get it straight from the Horses mouth.

From the Constitution, Section 1

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

All fine and good, but it does not however, command them to be correct.

The Supreme Court is given authority to decide cases by the Constitution. You think the Founders meant a particular thing by "natural born". The Supreme Court has not agreed with you. however much you think them wrong, they have the Constitutional authority.

Your argument can be summed up as "Might makes right." I disagree.

Your opinion. Not shared by many, including the Supreme Court in Rogers v. Bellei.

Truth is not decided by consensus. It doesn't matter if the entire planet believes something, that WILL NOT make it true. It bothers me not at all to declare the Supreme court wrong when the facts show that they are. For example, do you believe the Supreme Court is correct about Roe v Wade?

The right to life is inherent in the existence of an unborn child. However, many who agree on the right to life also know the right to citizenship is legislated by each country.

Citizenship and legal "person" status are virtually the same thing.

Do you believe Roe v Wade was a correct decision?

You keep trying to change the subject. The issue isn't whether WKA or Rogers v Bellei is correctly decided. The issue is that they were decided a certain way, and as of now, that is the law of the land. When we think it's wrong we need to try to change the law, not claim it's what we want it to be.

What the Vattel "natural born" crowd seems not to realize is correct or not, "thems the rules." So when one of the Vattel crowd says that 0bama should have been deported with his father, they may be expressing a common wish of all of us, but not what the law has been held to be. So my question to you - do you recognize what the law is? Or are you assuming it is always what we want it to be?