“Right, but the reason why I never say much concerning his father is because I thought the Supreme Court has already resolved this issue?”
The Supreme Court has never ruled on a case concerning NBC because all presidents before Obama met the constitutional requirement of NBC.
In cases concerning citizenship, the court has commented upon the term NBC as a reference for other citizenship circumstances. The Court has always defined NBC as born in country to two citizen parents.
Updating? The only way to update the Constitutation is through an Amendment. No Amendment has ever changed the NBC requirement of the constitution for Presidential eligibility.
“The Court has always defined NBC as born in country to two citizen parents.”
NO, they haven’t. That is one way. THAT MAY NOT THE ONLY WAY.
For example, Ginsburg thinks that you can be born on foreign soil and be eligible.
IT IS NOT SETTLED LAW.
Um, you’re mostly correct, but there was another president who was probably not eligible due to his father not being a citizen at the time of the child’s birth, and that would be Chester A. Arthur, president from 1881 to 1885. He got away with it by destroying records that contradicted his cover story, which he had to have because then as now, the rumors were flying. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Which shows, BTW, that parental citizenship was in fact considered a constitutional disqualifier at the time. But not until the turn of the century did his father’s naturalization records surface, proving the “birthers” (aka “eligibility skeptics”) of his time were, in fact, correct about the fatal defect in his credentials.