by Sharon Rondeau
(Oct. 12, 2024) — As The Post & Email reported September 26 in the second of a two-part interview with Florida resident and previous presidential eligibility challenger Theodore T. Moran, he announced his intention to send letters to all Republican members of Congress expressing his concern that 2024 Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris is not eligible for the office she seeks to win on November 5, 2024.
Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution sets forth three requirements for the presidency: residence within the country for at least 14 years, at least 35 years of age, and a “natural born Citizen.”
Many Americans believe the term of art, added to Article II by the Committee on Postponed Matters toward the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention and apparently approved without argument, signifies simply, “born in the United States.” However, there are a number of legal scholars who interpret the phrase to mean, “born in the United States to parents who are themselves U.S. citizens.”
Still others believe birthplace is insignificant but that at the time of the birth, the U.S. citizenship of the parents, or at least the father, is an absolute.
Researchers falling into the latter two categories often ascribe their interpretations to 18th-century Swiss philosopher, scholar and jurist Emmerich de Vattel, whose The Law of Nations has been reported to have been a key volume in the library of none other than American Revolutionary War general and the nation’s first president, George Washington.
Two modern-era U.S. Supreme Court opinions recognize Vattel’s influence on the Constitution’s Framers. In his 2019 opinion in the second case, U.S. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that Vattel was “the founding era’s foremost expert on the law of nations.”
In Part 1 of our interview with Moran, he explained his decision to approach Moody’s office based on Article III of the Constitution, which grants the federal courts the authority to adjudicate “Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party.”
In light of that, Moran said, any state attorney general has “standing” to challenge a presidential (federal) candidate’s constitutional qualifications.
On September 11, Moran sent a letter to Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody through her website in which he stated, in part:
I have been a Florida resident since 2013 and the reason I am writing to you is that the state of Florida has Article III standing to represent the voters of Florida who feel that the DNC and Kamala Harris are deceiving us by claiming she is constitutionally qualified to represent us as President of the United States…
From Kamala’s bio both her parents were here in the US, on a nonimmigrant visa (F1) and under 26 at the time of her birth. And while this question has never been decided by our courts, it certainly casts a blazing light on her Constitutional qualifications to call herself an Article II, natural born Citizen…
After studying this subject for over 12 years I am always pulled back to John Jay’s letter to George Washington, “permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise & seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expresly that the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.” At the very least the 14th Amendment did not “wash” Kamala of the foreign allegiance owed by her parents and thus that foreign (Jamaican and Indian) allegiance was also transferred to her.
On Friday Moran informed us he sent the letters to Congress on October 2 using the template below.
In his opening paragraph, Moran asserted that not only is Harris not a “natural born Citizen,” but “she is not even a Citizen of the United States.”
The same had been suggested by then-Chapman University Professor of Law John C. Eastman in an August 12, 2020 Newsweek article after Harris was selected to be Joe Biden’s running-mate.
The Framers of the Constitution did not contemplate a vice president, but the 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, required all vice-presidential candidates to meet the constitutional criteria for the president.
Four days after publication, Newsweek‘s editor posted the following comment above the article:
This op-ed is being used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia. We apologize. The essay, by John Eastman, was intended to explore a minority legal argument about the definition of who is a “natural-born citizen” in the United States. But to many readers, the essay inevitably conveyed the ugly message that Senator Kamala Harris, a woman of color and the child of immigrants, was somehow not truly American.
In his essay Eastman argued that Harris’s parents might not have been “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States when they attended the University of California-Berkeley as post-graduate students on student visas from India and Jamaica, respectively. That, Eastman posited, placed her basic U.S. citizenship in question as well as whether she qualifies as “natural born.”
In his letter to Congress,, Moran asserted that Harris, though born in the United States in 1964, is not a U.S. citizen because her parents were “NOT ‘DOMICILED’ in the United States” at the time of her birth.
Rather, he said, while the United States was the parents’ “habitual residence” during their time at the university, it was not their “domicile,” which Black’s Law Dictionary defines as “the permanent residence of a person or the place to which he intends to return even though he may actually reside elsewhere.”
Further, Moran wrote:
Putting all of this together, a person who is here on a student visa is NOT “DOMICILED” in the United States. They have a “habitual residence” in the United States, but their legal “domicile” is their “principal, actual dwelling place in fact” in their foreign country. This is their domicile of origin, and it becomes the domicile of any child born to a nonimmigrant alien while here.
Referring to Harris, he concluded his letter with, “…she is not a Citizen of the United States, and has no Constitutional right ordering Americans into battle.”
As of Friday he received no response from any member of Congress, he said, nor from Moody’s office.
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13 responses to “Kamala Harris Eligibility Letter Campaign to Congress So Far Yields…”
Sent this message to Florida AG Ashley Moody’s website today:
https://legacy.myfloridalegal.com/contact.nsf/contact?Open&Section=Citizen_Services :
SUBJECT/CATEGORY
KAMALA HARRIS-EMHOFF/ general election nbC-FRAUD
“Honorable AG Ashley Moody,
1. Will there be a response to my certified letter to you dated FEB 13, 2024?
SUBJECT: Florida to Lead America in Mandatory Disclosure of candidate/incumbent/ex-incumbents’ Citizenship(s)-timelines for USA’s Highest Federal Offices
2. Will there be a response to another Florida resident, Theodore T. Moran?
https://www.thepostemail.com/2024/09/20/state-attorneys-general-have-standing-to-challenge-presidential-eligibility-researcher-says/
Thank you,
Jonathan David Mooers, PE, MBA, veteran…Naples, FL…”
KAMALIE for presIDent…or natural common senses reality in 2024?
natural reality (eyes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iUQ4qe71Ho
What’s relevant is Resolution 511 and the criteria that Congress used to establish that John McCain was a Natural Born Citizen, criteria that Kamala Harris’s life narrative fails to reconcile with.
Congress through Resolution 511 said that Natural Born Citizen’s are the children of US citizens. That resolution was accompanied with legal opinions from 2 constitutional scholars in support of that rationale Congress used to say McCain was a Natural Born Citizen.
So how can Congress certify an election of a candidate who doesn’t meet the Congressional definition of Natural Born Citizenship?
Moody should be asking Harris if she holds Jamaican citizenship.
Ted: As you and I clearly know and understand, the far-left Marxist perverters, subverters, language-manipulators of words and terms in the U.S. Constitution, such as “natural born Citizen” of the United States, and its true original intent, understanding, meaning per the founders and framers of our constitutional republic, and the purpose (why) it is in the presidential eligibility clause, will argue that it is any of the two or three ways to claim basic U.S. citizenship, i.e., via any man-made law, amendment, or treaty that would let them claim to being a basic U.S. Citizen at/by birth. They will deliberately ignore the meaning conveyed by the cumulative adjectives ‘natural’ and ‘born’ preceding the noun ‘Citizen’. They will argue that any man-made law that grants them a claim per the noun “Citizen” is all that they need. But adjectives mean something. See: http://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2024/08/08/citizen-at-birth-term-vs-natural-born-citizen-term-grammatical-and-logical-analysis/
They will claim that is all they need. Rather, what is truly needed per Natural Law is a union of all three legs to be a true and undisputed “natural born Citizen” (‘nbC”) of the United States, i.e., a person born in the country to parents who were both U.S. Citizens when their child was born, a person born with sole allegiance to the USA and unity of citizenship in the USA. Said another way, a person born with no foreign citizenship or allegiance on them at/by birth. A person born a dual-Citizen at/by birth is NOT a “natural born Citizen” of the United States with undivided loyalty to the USA and only the USA at/by birth. And per the Jamaican constitution Kamala Harris inherited Jamaican citizenship at/by birth from her foreign national Jamaican citizen father who was only temporarily sojourning in the USA on a student VISA when Kamala was born.
Kamala is not an “nbc” of the United States. In fact when studying her exact birth circumstance and the status of her parents in the year that Kamala was born, the parents only being in the USA via being granted temporary entrance on a student VISA, not here as immigrants, and not legally domiciled in the USA, Kamala is not likely even a U.S. Citizen at/by birth at all per the 14th Amendment as it was interpreted to apply under the SCOTUS decision of Wong Kim Ark (1898). The Chinese non-U.S. Citizen parents of WKA were at least legal immigrants to the USA and legally domiciled in the USA when their son WKA was born in CA. Not so for Kamala.
See the Three Legged Stool test for “nbC”: http://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/the-three-legged-stool-test-for-natural-born-citizen-of-the-united-states-to-constitutional-standards-2/ … and … http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/naturalborncitizen/TheWhoWhatWhenWhereWhyandHowofNBC-WhitePaper.pdf … and … http://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-got-away-with-it-as-vp-she-should-not-be-allowed-to-get-away-with-it-as-the-commander-in-chief-trump-should-challenge-her-constitutional-eligibility/
Ted, keep up the good work and Semper Fi!
CDR Kerchner (Ret)
Author: Natural Born Citizen
http://www.kerchner.com/books/naturalborncitizen.htm
How was it possible that the US Senators that signed up to Senate Resolution (SR) 511 in 2008 to establish that US Senator John S. McCain, Jr., was a bone fide natural born Citizen when they cited a law reference, Naturalization Act of 1790, was no longer in effect?
The Naturalization Act of 1790 was repealed five years after its inception and therefore was no longer valid. Are you sure that the US Constitution authorizes Article I personnel to deem anyone a natural born Citizen as was the ruse of SR511? For sure, the US Constitution does authorize Congress to make laws of naturalization.
The Naturalization Act of 1795 did consider (consider- an uncertain situation and a debatable word) persons born of two citizen parents as citizens of the USA and this is the law that superseded the previous Act of 1790 which also repealed that of 1790.
Quote from Naturalization Act of 1795:
“and the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States:”
https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-source-collections/primary-source-collections/article/naturalization-acts-of-1790-and-1795
If Congress has made a law that requires persons born overseas (any place) to have the parents fill-out a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) to claim their US citizen status, doesn’t that signify that all persons born overseas are naturalized US citizens? Someone explain that to me to educate me if I am going down the wrong road.
https://sample.usembassy.gov/apply-online-for-a-consular-report-of-birth-abroad-crba/
What leads one to believe that Mr. Moran will get any more notice than those who made similar requests? Thanks for the lesson from another angle. You join Apuzzo, Kerchner, DeMaio and others who have been denied or lets say ignored
They were censored.
Bottom Line the US Congress and US Supreme Court is still protecting the fraud and usurper Berry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama by ignoring Article ll Section 1 Clause 5 of the US Constitution IE qualifications for US President and VP ! Anchor Baby Kamala Harris is just another addition to the long line of people who ran for US President who did not meet Article ll Section 1 Clause 5 and Natural Born US Citizen ! Ted Cruz wasn’t even an Anchor Baby , he was born in Canada to a father who was a Cuban Citizen at the time of Ted’s birth in Canada 1970 ! Ted Cruz mother may or May not have been a US Citizen at the Time because it is said she voted in Canadian Elections when dual citizenship was not recognized by the Canadian Government ! In order to vote in Canadian election in the 1970s Ted Cruz’s mother would have had to give up her US citizenship !
I believe you are exactly right Charles. IMO there is no mystery about what is happening with Natural Born Citizen. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and both parties were afraid to object to the, “historic first black president”, the ineligible Barack Hussein Obama, being sworn-in. They know Obama is not eligible but followed the orders of Nancy Pelosi and pretended Obama was eligible to avoid being called racist, and maybe losing a committee assignment which would mean more money for them. There inaction was and is treason at its highest level. They are now left with protecting Obama to protect themselves, and a huge part of that protection is to prevent Donald Trump from being president again, no matter what must be done.
This means Trump is in great danger and that has been proven with assassination attempts. The many complicit in The Obama Fraud know the penalty for having given America’s government and her military to her enemies can be death, and to insure that does not happen means to insure Trump is not president again, no matter what that takes. It is incredibly frustrating to see our Representatives being part of destroying America by protecting themselves from the consequences of their decision to commit treason… They gave America’s government and her military to her enemies via Barack Hussein Obama and now must protect Obama. Trump must be kept safe and elected President in 2024 or America will not recover from The Obama Fraud and its intended destruction of America……
Pray, and vote for Trump 2024!
“…So Far Yields…Silence [of a nationally-syndicated mafia-like OMERTA]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0
Bob 68+ has FRAUD presIDent Obama clearly described herein, with the fear of being charged with treason as the prime motivator for sixteen years (08-28-08- Today) of continuous Obama-Kamala-“natural born Citizen”(nbC)-omerta.
They know that We know, so anyone who exposes the clarity of Obama-Kamala-parallel-nbC-usurpation will be punished (= Sheriff Arpaio, Donald Trump, Seth Rich?, Lorretta Fuddy?, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, et al) while anyone who abandons their prescribed oaths of office duties so as to cover up Obama-Kamala-parallel-nbC-usurpation will likely be rewarded (= “Thief Justice” Roberts, Michelle “Becoming” Obama, Hillary “Rodham-RICO” Clinton, Nancy “Insider Traitor” Pelosi, et al) by blind-eye law enforcement and the media-mafia bosses.
Our U.S. Government leadership is nbC-checkmated with the fear of Obama’s “black male blackmail” of punishing race-riots and now Kamala’s manufactured https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iUQ4qe71Ho “black female blackfemail” of punishing race-riots!
What to do?
VOTE TRUMP reality and VETO TRAMP Chianti (= pro-RINO WINO Kamala, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hn-BeuCd2M + https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-campaign-liz-cheney-wisconsin-republicans/ )Rely less on U.S. Government to vet U.S. citizenships and rely more on a P&E-informed We the U.S.-Citizen-People on Main Street USA to do their own vetting of candidate and voter citizenships because our cowardly-compromised government today simply will not do this vital vetting for We the People!Rely less on 16 unprecedented years of orchestrated “nbC legal subterfuge” (Pelosi-Maskell vs de Vatell non-conclusive legality debates on “undefined nbC” 08-28-08- Today, et al) and rely more on a P&E-educated We the U.S.-Citizen-People on Main Street USA to only accept nbC as EVIDENTLY DEFINED by all previous U.S. citizen generations’ presidential selections and elections, from 1836 to pre-08-28-08, as EVIDENTLY being, “one born within and subject to a sole-U.S.-jurisdiction to U.S.-citizen-parents from the USA community at the time of one’s birth” (= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush)Permanently remove all U.S. Government leaders, including Obama and Kamala, from ever holding public office again due to their nationally-syndicated nbC-treason on 08-28-08 and their subsequent nationally-syndicated nbC-omerta 08-28-08- Today,
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>>> https://rumble.com/v59o69u-who-is-kamala-harris.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
From Joseph DeMaio:
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Neither Apuzzo, Kerchner nor DeMaio come anywhere near approaching the intellect or gravitas of Copernicus, but once upon a time, he too was lampooned, ridiculed and ignored for claiming that the Earth orbited the sun rather than vice versa, as required by the dominant narrative of the day. Sound familiar? Guess what: time and rational thought, rather than uninformed dogma, prevailed.
Kamala Harris Eligibility Letter Campaign to Congress So Far Yields…
I might also add Ted Cruz’s Father did not become a US Citizen until 2005 a full 35 years after Ted Cruz was born in Canada ! Also if Ted Cruz’s mother gave up her US Citizenship to vote in Canadian election when did she reattain her US Citizenship ?
Yes, Ted Cruz and many more politcians who are NOT a “natural born Citizen” of the United States, in both major political parties, are trying to subvert the true original intent meaning, understanding, and purpose of the the U.S. Constitution’s presidential eligibility clause for their own personal political ambitions. A “natural born Citizen” is one born with sole allegiance to and citizenship in only one country. In our case that is the USA. A dual-Citizen at birth is born with dual allegiance requirement at/by birth and thus has divided loyalties at/by birth.
The founders and framers did not want a person born with foreign influence on them and/or divided loyalties at/by birth from ever getting command of our military once the founding generation was gone. The founders and framers understood why and those of us today who have ever served in the military surely still understand why that undivided loyalty by/at since birth is crucial for whomever is to be the Commander in Chief of our military. For on why read the following white paper. A “natural born Citizen” is a person born in the USA to parents who were both U.S. Citizens (born or naturalized) when their child was born in the USA. See: http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/naturalborncitizen/TheWhoWhatWhenWhereWhyandHowofNBC-WhitePaper.pdf
Some Politicians Seeking High Office Who Are Not A ‘Natural Born Citizen’ of U.S.: http://www.scribd.com/lists/22182725/Some-Politicians-Seeking-High-Office-Who-Are-Not-A-Natural-Born-Citizen-of-U-S
CDR Kerchner (Ret)
http://www.ProtectOurLiberty.org