by Sharon Rondeau
(Nov. 14, 2023) — On Monday a citizen who responded to a request for “input” from the non-profit media platform PragerU, a producer of short informational videos with the purpose of presenting an alternative viewpoint of current events, received a reply to his submission.
The reader cannot discern from PragerU’s acknowledgement whether it was issued in response to the online survey Jonathan David Mooers completed or his suggestion, sent via two successive emails, that the organization create a video illuminating the U.S. Constitution’s Article II, Section 1, clause 5 requirement that the president and commander-in-chief be a “natural born Citizen.”
Particularly since 2008, the term of art has been both hotly debated and ridiculed by many in the mainstream media who view those questioning a candidate’s eligibility to the presidency as “racist” or evidence they fall into the category they deem “birthers.” The latter term was coined as a result of many questions Americans began to ask after U.S. Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL) announced in early 2007 he would seek the office after less than a year in his seat.
Obama was purportedly born to a U.S.-citizen mother and foreign-citizen father in Honolulu, HI on August 4, 1961. However, a 5+-year criminal investigation revealed in December 2016, as Obama was preparing to leave office, that the “long-form” birth certificate image his administration released on April 27, 2011 asserting his birth in Honolulu is a “computer-generated forgery.”
The “eligibility” question continues to persist as a result of presidential candidates who were born outside the U.S. or within the country to parents who were not naturalized citizens, as in the case of Joe Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris.
One interpretation of “natural born Citizen” is “a person born in the United States,” regardless of his or her parents’ citizenship at the time, while another more restrictive version is, “Born in the United States to two U.S.-citizen parents.”
Yet another view is one in which the citizenship of the father is paramount as well as a birth inside the United States, while a fourth interpretation claims the child could be born anywhere in the world as long as it is to one or both U.S.-citizen parent(s), as in the case of 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
As legal scholar Joseph DeMaio has often noted, since Obama’s eligibility was formally challenged in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court has “evaded” the issue, thereby declining to render an opinion regarding what it believes the Framers intended by the term with its inclusion in what would be the final draft of the Constitution for the new nation they had formed.
PragerU’s response to Mooers reads:
From: PragerU Information<info@prageru.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 6:00 AM
Subject: Thank you for contacting PragerU! Re: We want to hear from you!
To: Jonathan Mooers
Thank you for contacting PragerU! We will respond to your email as soon as possible. Due the large volume of inquiries, we are unable to answer every email.
If you have an urgent question about a donation and do not hear back from us, please email donate@prageru.com
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The Post & Email will report if and when Mooers receives additional communication from the outlet pursuant to his suggestion.
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One response to “Did PragerU Respond to “natural born Citizen” Video Idea?”
The difference between SCOTUS and Prager kicking the can is the SCOTUS wont ask for a donation for the kick.