Birthers cite an 1875 Supreme Court case, Minor vs. Happersett, in which the court used the term “natural-born citizen” to refer to people born in the United States born to U.S.-citizen parents.
“The arguments aren’t crazy,” said Georgetown law Professor Lawrence Solum. But, he added, “The much stronger argument suggests that if you were born on American soil that you would be considered a natural-born citizen.”
Did you read the thread?? Minor v. Happersett isn’t the only court case that used the term “natural-born citizen” to refer to people born in the United States born to U.S.-citizen parents. There is NO stronger argument than that.
I can’t find out exactly how much he did say. If it is just those few words, then who knows if he is talking about whether birthright citizenship is not as good an idea as some other way, which perhaps does not include the kids of illegal aliens, or people here on vacation. Or, if he is talking about what the law actually is.
If he is talking about what the law actually is, then Prof. Solum will get clobbered WITH LOGIC pretty quickly.
The only case mentioned in the Internet Article is the Minor Happersett one, which is a voting rights case and is not a citizenship case. The Minor judges are very up front about how they don’t need to resolve “are kid of foreigners born here natural born citizens” issues.