[so_real]

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.

[so_real]

CDRK, thoughts on this idea?

[one guy in new jersey]

You can’t define a unique COTUS term via a mere statute.

SCOTUS must speak. Marbury v. Madison.

[4Zoltan]

Bingham did not write the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. It was written by Senator Jacob Howard and introduced on May 30th, 1866.

Bingham’s statement “[I] find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution …” is about Senate Bill 61 which became the Civil Rights Act of 1866. He said this in March 1866 before the citizenship clause had been added to the 14th.

In 1868 after the 14th Amendment had been sent to the states for ratification, Bingham said “Who does not know that every person born within the limits of the Republic is, in the language of the Constitution, a natural-born citizen.”