You seem deliberately unaware of the fact that people BELIEVE what they are told by authority figures. Actually, I think you know it all too well, for it is the basis of your CONSTANT citing of said authority figures opinion's on the subject.
The Lawyer types have been interpreting Wong Kim Ark for the last hundred years to mean that anyone born here is a citizen, and they routinely conflate "citizen" with "natural born citizen." It is a chain of faulty logic that has become popular through endurance and repetition, and we are seeing the consequences of a hundred years lack of clarity.
Nowadays we cannot conceive of there being different classes of citizens, because we have been taught to think of everyone as being in the same class, but the reality is that the Wong Court had no trouble at all dividing people into different classes with different rights.
Federal judges serve lifetime appointments so that they don’t have to give a damn about being denounced or having their rulings treated with contempt by anyone. Judges have the power to hold any of us in contempt and keep us locked up until we show some respect and/or follow their orders.
As do other petty dictators. The wonder is why a Free Republic should tolerate such behavior.
There were eligibility challenges heard by state election boards in New York, Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Hawaii, and North Carolina.
To what point? The landscape is poisoned with false doctrine and a prevalent fear of retaliation for anyone challenging the "Americaness" of the first "black" President. Any public official who acted on the charge would face the wrath of a very large coalition of national news agencies, Civil Rights groups, an Army of legal authorities calling him a fool, and in short, a likely end to his career.
We may like to regard ourselves as a group of deliberative, civilized people, but in reality we are a tribe of howling savages who are more motivated by emotion than reason.
You focus on what could be and what you think should be; I prefer to focus on what actually is.
You see the little, contemporary picture, I see the larger historic picture. You are pragmatic, like the Vichy, who felt it was better to live with the Nazi occupation than to fight it. After all, we must deal "with what actually is." Right?
