[DouglasKC]

But the real kicker is this. Say you get a live case, someone with standing, and SCOTUS decides to hear it. Even if the court were stacked with nine conservatives and original intent and sound historical analysis were used to decide the question, there is almost zero probability the court would find him unqualified. But modern jurisprudence, especially the recent Nguyen case (2001), is breaking in favor of a simple two-category sense, where naturalization can only happen after birth, not at birth, with the default result that anyone not naturalized will be consider natural born.

And there's no way that certain provisions of Obamacare could be constitutional either. Yet all it too was the tortured logic of one blackmailed/bribed judge to make it so...

[Springfield Reformer]

The Obamacare case is different. Among other things, it is an outgrowth of a systematic abuse of the Commerce Clause that has been going on for a very long time. Whereas some of the best arguments for the NBC status of Ted Cruz derive from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which was created under the direct supervision of the framers of the Constitution. There’s really no comparison.

Peace,

SR