Between the opinion of a New Jersey Judge and any random bum on the street, I will probably grant the opinion of the bum more credibility than that of the Judge.
Judges are TRAINED to get it wrong.
A judge in New Jersey disagreed with Charles and Bret:
Purpura & Moran v. Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin: “No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers’ position that Mr. Obama is not a “natural born citizen” due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here. … The petitioners’ legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a ‘natural born citizen’ regardless of the status of his father.” April 10, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88936737/2012-04-10-NJ-Purpura-Moran-v-Obama-Initial-Decision-of-ALJ-Masin-Apuzzo
Like the Ankney decision, this opinion is incorrect as well.
if born in HI a citizen.
Not necessarily a natural born citizen.
must be born to citizen parents (plural)
Between the opinion of a New Jersey Judge and any random bum on the street, I will probably grant the opinion of the bum more credibility than that of the Judge.
Judges are TRAINED to get it wrong.
In 1844, the highest court in New York ruled someone born in the USA, with 2 British subject parents, who moved to England a few months after her birth and never returned, qualified as a natural born citizen of the USA:
“And the constitution itself contains a direct recognition of the subsisting common law principle, in the section which defines the qualification of the President. “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President,” &c. The only standard which then existed, of a natural born citizen, was the rule of the common law, and no different standard has been adopted since. Suppose a person should be elected President who was native born, but of alien parents, could there be any reasonable doubt that he was eligible under the constitution? I think not.”
That decision was cited with approval in the US Supreme Court case Wong Kim Ark.
Sorry, an administrative judge in and administrative court court is not real judge in the sense you are thinking. It is an administrative hearing, somewhat similar to a traffic court. Appealing a decision from an administrative court decision gets you into a real court.