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No amendment necessary.

SCOTUS needs to speak.

Without weasel words or self-justifying rhetoric, to produce a pre-approved conclusion, to thereby formally (as opposed to merely de facto) allow obvious foreign influence at the level of POTUS.

John Jay was not just whistling Dixie, you know.

SCOTUS needs to speak.

They already have, and on more than one occasion.

You are not wrong. But maybe we are going about this the wrong way.

Perhaps a friendly in the House of Representatives would pen the "The John Bingham Bill" to legally revisit Bingham's legal interpretation of Natural Born Citizen at the time the 14th Amendment was ratified and codify this understanding unequivocally into law.

Then Supreme Court can continue to be spineless without risking another non-NBC POTUS like Obama destroying the country.

SCOTUS needs to speak.

SCOTUS lacks authority to give advisory opinions. President Washington requested an advisory opinion and Chief Justice John Jay, joined by Justices Wilson, Blair, Iredell and Paterson refused, August 8, 1793:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-13-02-0263

handwritten by Chief Justice John Jay, footnotes omitted

From Supreme Court Justices
Philadelphia
8 Augt 1793
Sir
We have considered the previous Question stated in a Letter written to us by your Direction, by the Secretary of State, on the 18th of last month.
The Lines of Separation drawn by the Constitution between the three Departments of Government—their being in certain Respects checks on each other—and our being Judges of a court in the last Resort—are Considerations which afford strong arguments against the Propriety of our extrajudicially deciding the questions alluded to; especially as the Power given by the Constitution to the President of calling on the Heads of Departments for opinions, seems to have been purposely as well as expressly limited to executive Departments.
we exceedingly regret every Event that may cause Embarrassment to your administration; but we derive Consolation from the Reflection, that your Judgment will discern what is Right, and that your usual Prudence, Decision and Firmness will surmount every obstacle to the Preservation of the Rights, Peace, and Dignity of the united States. We have the Honor to be, with perfect Respect, Sir, your most obedient and most h’ble servants
John Jay
James Wilson
John Blair
Ja. Iredell
Wm Paterson

SCOTUS can only rule upon cases or controversies where they have territorial and subject matter jurisdiction. In order to have a party who has suffered a particularized injury in volving the definition of natural born citizen, it may require a losing Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate to be a plaintiff. Nobody who has ever been a candidate for said offices has ever been damn fool enough to bring such a Complaint.

Natural born citizen is a requirement to hod the office of President or Vice-President. It is not a requirement to be a candidate for either office; e.g. one need not be 35 ears old to be a candidate, but if one is not 35 years old on inauguration day, one may not assume office.