IMO, yes.
Waitte said that there can be more than one road to NBC status, and he wasn't going to say if that was right or wrong.
No he didn't, he said there were doubts.
Did I miss anything?
Nope, you got it.
Here's a good thread on the subject:
He said there have been doubts, and then he continued to say it wasn't necessary for the case to say if those doubts were justified or not. So Justice Waite is not taking a stand either way. He did not rule that those born in the U.S. of non-citizen parents were not NBC or that they were.
Here's a good thread on the subject...
I shudder to think how many posts there have been on this subject, arguing for and against. The fact is that your position is no more definitive than those who argue that Cruz is a natural born citizen because the Supreme Court had never ruled on the matter.