by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 8, 2024) — At approximately 10:30 a.m. EST, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor enumerated the U.S. Constitution’s eligibility requirements for the president to Atty. Jonathan Mitchell, who was arguing in favor of maintaining 2024 leading Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s name on the Colorado primary ballot. Referring to […]
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Oral Argument in Trump Colorado Ballot Case to Begin at 10:00 AM
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 8, 2024) — Beginning at 10:00 AM EST today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments stemming from the December 19, 2023 Colorado Supreme Court 4-3 opinion removing former President Donald J. Trump’s name from the 2024 state Republican primary ballot. The majority of Colorado’s highest court invoked Section 3 […]
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Bing AI “Remembers” What User “Taught” It
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 6, 2024) — On January 30, author, longtime reader and constitutional activist Robert C. Laity engaged in another conversation with Bing Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the meaning of the term “natural born Citizen” found in Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the United States Constitution during which AI “remembered” and […]
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Ingrassia on Trump Possible VP Picks
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 1, 2024) — In a Substack post Thursday, former Trump White House intern, current law clerk and legal analyst Paul Ingrassia presented his views on several candidates who could be on a relatively short list of vice-presidential choices for Donald J. Trump should he receive the 2024 Republican nomination this summer. […]
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FOX Nation Production “Who Is Donald Trump?”
by Tom Arnold, ©2024 (Jan. 29, 2023) — This weekend, January 27-28, 2024, I happened to see on television and watch “Who Is Donald Trump?“, a six-part documentary (one of the Fox Nation Production series). It was hosted by political commentator Brian Kilmeade. The program was informative (for the most part) and quite professionally done. […]
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Facing Challenge from User, Bing AI Corrects its Definition of “natural born Citizen,” Admits “Mistaken Response”
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 28, 2024) — Early Sunday morning, New York State citizen, registered voter, author and constitutional activist Robert C. Laity challenged Bing Artificial Intelligence (AI) on its erroneous contention that the New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) expresses the presidential requirement of “natural born Citizen” correctly. Article II, Section 1, clause […]
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New York AG’s Office Responds to Complaint of Presidential Eligibility Misrepresentation
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 27, 2024) — On Friday, New York State citizen and registered voter Robert C. Laity received a response from the New York Attorney General’s Division of Criminal Justice, Public Integrity Bureau to his complaint that the New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) has been inaccurately expressing a criterion for presidential […]
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The “ONPS” Disorder
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 25, 2024) — The “Obot Neural Paralysis Syndrome” (for brevity, “ONPS”) continues to spread, despite all efforts to bring it to ground. Forget about Wuhan and the Covid-19 lab leak. The ONPS continues to attack functioning rational brain cells and neural synapses when it comes to the “natural born Citizen” […]
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Ingrassia Interviews with Stone on “nbC”
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 24, 2024) – 8:30 p.m. EST – Legal scholar, law clerk and writer Paul Ingrassia is interviewing with Roger Stone on his “TheStoneZONE” broadcast on Twitter on the subject of the U.S. Constitution’s Article II, Section 1, clause 5 presidential requirement of “natural born Citizen.” Interviewing from a vehicle and wearing […]
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The Haley nbC Issue and the CNN Spin
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 23, 2024) — The blowback continues on the Substack article posted by one Paul Ingrassia positing that Nikki Haley is constitutionally ineligible because she is likely not a natural born Citizen (“nbC”) as required by Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5 of the Constitution. Guess what: Ingrassia is more than […]
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Haley: “I am Not Interested in Vice President”
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 23, 2024) — In an interview just before 8:00 a.m. EST Tuesday as primary voting in New Hampshire was under way, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley made an in-person appearance on location with “Fox & Friends” co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy to make the case she is […]
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Another Modest Proposal
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 22, 2024) — Your humble servant has on several prior occasions made some hypothetical “modest proposals” here at The P&E…, none of which has thus far come to fruition. That aside, here is another one, but not – ** sigh of relief ** – on the nbC “presidential eligibility” issue. […]
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Bannon: “We’ve Gotta Get Into” the “natural born Citizen” Controversy
by Sharon Rondeau, h/t WVA (Jan. 18, 2024) — Toward the end of an 8+-minute interview Wednesday with law clerk, writer and legal scholar Paul Ingrassia, “War Room” host Steve Bannon pledged to “get into” the subject of the Constitution’s Article II, Section 1, clause 5 presidential requirement of “natural born Citizen.” On January 8, […]
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The Mooers Comment/Question
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 17, 2024) — Introduction Well, the insightful comments (and questions) on the nbC eligibility issue just keep coming. One particularly interesting and thought-provoking question now comes from reader Mooers. He focuses on your humble servant’s assertion in the post that “an nbC was a person born here to two U.S. […]
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Ramaswamy Withdraws, Endorses Trump
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 16, 2024) — In the wake of the results of the 2024 Iowa Republican caucuses Monday evening, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced he would suspend his campaign and endorsed fellow candidate, former president and leading Republican primary contender Donald J. Trump. Trump won the caucus vote by a “landslide” of more […]
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nbC Comment Merits Response
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 15, 2024) — As interest in the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) eligibility issue under the Constitution builds following the recent post by President Trump suggesting that Nikki Haley might have an eligibility problem, several posts here at The P&E have generated insightful reader comments. One such comment from reader “Leland” […]
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Who Can Handle the nbC Eligibility Truth?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 14, 2024) — Introduction As interest continues to once again pick up in the presidential eligibility issue following President Trump’s post suggesting that Nikki Haley might not be a “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”), and thus ineligible, some interesting reactions and observations have surfaced. In this offering, your humble servant will […]
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The nbC Eligibility Brainwashing Runs Deep
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 12, 2024) — Following up on the presidential eligibility posts recently appearing at The P&E here and here, the New York Post – founded, BTW, by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 – has come out and slammed President Trump’s suggestion that Nikki Haley is likely ineligible to the presidency. The Post […]
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Will the New York Post Publish our “NBC” Comment?
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 12, 2024) — At approximately 12:14 EST Friday, this writer submitted a comment to a column by Emily Crane of the New York Post titled, “Donald Trump shares false conspiracy theory Nikki Haley is ineligible to be president.” Crane’s commentary was prompted by Trump’s reposting on his TruthSocial account Monday a […]
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The Trump nbC Post
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 9, 2024) — Well, whatta ya know…, it seems that the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) issue may finally be getting some renewed traction. The following offering is made as a supplement to the recent one posted on the presidential “eligibility” topic by the intrepid P&E Editor here. As noted there, […]