Ummm, you didn’t answer my question. This sentence about the holding in Minor doesn’t help Chester Arthur, who would have been old news at the time of the WKA decision anyway. Let’s focus, chick. Why do both decision emphasize citizen parents??
The Ark case is a MESS. It is too time consuming to go through that case. People have done it ad nauseum.
The salient point is that Horace Gray was appointed by Chestur Arthur - a fraud who may not have been eligible for President - depending on the definition of Natural Born citizen.
His father was an alien at the time Chester was born. According to the decision in Ark, Chester was a citizen.
What would have happened if Gray had ruled another way?????
The fact is that Horace Gray had a vested interest in a decision and that may have been the reason it turned out the way it did and why it was such a mess.
Look, you really don’t understand the Supreme Court if you can’t comprehend something was going on in that Wong Kim Ark Decision. Gray NEEDED Arthur to be a citizen. There may be other explanations for one of the most incompetent rulings ever handed down but Arthur’s citizenship at stake certainly fills the bill.
The statement about Minor is describing her situation. It is not a holding that the only definition of an NBC is jus soli and Jus sanguinis.
Get a grip on the reality of Wong Kim Ark and start to think about WHY they totally ignored evidence that would have shown the intent of Congress in the language of the 14th amendment and WHY did they twist it around to try to get around Elk? Why was there so much convoluted nonsense just to make Ark a citizen????????
There was a high intrigue in that decision. Were they paid off or was something else at stake???
This is the reason I don’t discuss Wong Kim Ark . People like you haven’t even BEGUN to think about what was really taking place in that decision.