[nonsporting]

The “natural born citizen” requirement is now another Constitutional dead letter.

[holden]

It would have been interesting if Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg could transport herself back in time to my eighth grade civics teacher, Miss Lamps, who, upon telling me back 40 some years ago that I could never be POTUS because I am not a natural born citizen, would lay out for her that in 2008, SCOTUS would reject even the consideration of a case challenging the potentially-not natural-born status a citizen president-elect who refuses to show his original birth certificate while such status seems readily suspect.

My teacher would've railed against Ruthie and I would've been proud of Miss Lamps.

Had my teacher been a liberal or readily accepted Buzzy-the-time-traveller's representation, acquiescing to her representation as "fine with me" or some such, I almost certainly would never have grown be the staunch Conservative I am.

I therefore must weep for today's school children in ever so many ways, and in turn, for our country's path.

HF