It is obvious from a review of the case law and statutes (8 USC 1401) from the last century that Wong Kim Ark has been, and still is the leading authority regarding NBC. The dicta in Minor has not, and never will be used a precedent for nbc. Ankeney is a well written opinion that incorporates and cites the law on the nbc issues in a clear manner that is easy to understand. The opinion just blows the Vattel birthers and their crazy theory out of the water. It is representative of what an opinion out of any appellate court will write today on the nbc issue.
It is almost comical to watch Edge919 dance around the language in Ankeney. These birthers must realize that nobody outside of birther fantasyland agrees with their bogus theory.
Oh no! That is where YOU are wrong. Somebody DOES (or DID) agree with them and I have found out the ORIGINAL place where the Vattle Birthers are getting all their stupid stuff from, and I am going to tell on them to EVERYBODY!!!
Sooo, sit down first, because you will NEVER believe where these stupid arguments are coming from:
The LOSING side in a 1844 case called Lynch versus Clarke!!! YES, the Vattle Birthers are digging up the losing side arguments from a case in 1844, 167 years ago. Then, they are dressing them up and giving them to people here like it is a new thought or something. That is where all the Naturalization Act of 1790 stuff was first argued, and the Shanks/Dupont thing, and the Snug Harbor thing.
All of those arguments were used then and lost. I am going to do a lot of Internet Article on this. If you want some information, I will cut and paste from that decision here for you.
But this is really pretty low down and nasty of the Vattle Birthers to do this, to try to keep Mark Rubio and Bobby Jindal from running because of 167 year old losing stuff. And not telling the conservatives here about this trick they are pulling. And how could they not know they were the LOSING arguments, since that is where they got them from. They should be totally ashamed of themselves!!!