by Sharon Rondeau (May 31, 2021) — The plaintiff in a case docketed at the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled for conference last Thursday challenging Kamala Harris’s constitutional eligibility to serve has received an acknowledgement of Laity’s having electronically sent through the court’s website a link to “Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas” authored by legal […]
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Natural Born Citizens and USSC Docket 20-1503
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (May 16, 2021) — When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for your humble servant to respond to comments in greater detail than allowed in the designated section of P&E posts, a longer post is required. Such is the case with this offering regarding assertions made by those who […]
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Defense Attorney Claims Kamala Harris Both “Citizen” and “natural born Citizen”
by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 2, 2020) — An attorney representing Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a lawsuit filed by New York State citizen Robert Laity claimed in a recent filing that Harris is both a “citizen of the United States” and a “natural born Citizen,” as is constitutionally required for the presidency and vice-presidency. […]
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Is Tammy Duckworth a Natural Born Citizen?
“A REVISITING OF THE ISSUE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Jul. 4, 2020) — Although it pains your faithful servant – grievously – to sully this post with a link to the electronic pages of The Washington (“Propaganda-Thrives-in-Darkness”) Post, once again the issue of presidential eligibility raises its head in connection with the potential candidacy of […]
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DeMaio Responds to Recent “natural born Citizen” Comments
“THE ONLY PRECEDENT THAT COUNTS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Feb. 13, 2020) — [Editor’s Note: Legal scholar Joseph DeMaio offers the following in response to comments to his February 9, 2020 article, “Is Mayor Pete a Natural Born Citizen?”] The J.J. Thompson comments of 2/12/20 are, respectfully, ill-reasoned and wrong. Neither the Ankeny case (an […]
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Is Mayor Pete a Natural Born Citizen?
DID JOSEPH BUTTIGIEG NATURALIZE BEFORE HIS SON’S BIRTH? by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Feb. 9, 2020) — Well, faithful P&E readers, the “eligibility” issue surfaces again, this time with regard to one of the Democrat presidential candidates vying for the opportunity to be bludgeoned in the November general election by President Trump. That lucky fellow is […]
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Exclusive: U.S. Senate Checks Out Ilhan Omar Citizenship Article
WHY IS VIDEO/ARTICLE ON CONTROVERSIAL CONGRESSWOMAN SCRUBBED? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 27, 2019) — Just before 4:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, a user with a “US Senate” IP address accessed an editorial written by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio titled, “Is Ilhan Omar a U.S. Citizen?” The article, published on July 24, brings to readers’ attention […]
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Citizen Contacts Secretaries of State on “natural born Citizen” Issue
“ATTEMPTED USURPATIONS” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 10, 2019) — On Friday, New York State citizen and registered voter Robert Laity wrote to Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, who also serves as President of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) based in Washington, DC. In his three-page letter, Laity expressed concern for the […]
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Is Andrew Yang a Natural Born Citizen?
DEMOCRATS RUN MULTIPLE CANDIDATES WITH QUESTIONABLE ELIGIBILITY by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Aug. 2, 2019) — This post by the intrepid P&E Editor is spot-on for calling out the leftist argument that, somehow, it is “racist” to question a person’s constitutional eligibility. The “racist” narrative began before and during the second usurpation of the United States […]
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Is Ilhan Omar a U.S. Citizen?
AND WHO HAS “STANDING” TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH? by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Jul. 24, 2019) — Recently, the intrepid P&E Editor brought to your humble servant’s attention a post revisiting the question of whether Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is constitutionally eligible to serve in the House of Representatives. P&E readers will recall that a similar […]
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Citizen Contacts U.S. Supreme Court on “Pattern of Usurpations” by Presidential Candidates
WHAT IS A “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 12, 2019) — As he has in the past, New York State citizen Robert Laity on Friday sent a letter to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, copied to all members of that body, captioned, “Usurpations of the Presidency by fraud and subterfuge; […]
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Is Tulsi Gabbard a Natural Born Citizen?
“PART OF THE UNITED STATES,” OR NOT? by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Jun. 28, 2019) — Well, well, well…, who woulda thunk? Following the first round of Democrat Loser Debates, it seems that a consensus is developing that the junior representative from Hawaii, Ms. Tulsi Gabbard may just be rising in the polls. In an […]
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Is Kamala Harris a “Natural Born Citizen?”
“PROVE IT” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Jun. 25, 2019) — One of the Democrat wanna-be candidates yearning for the opportunity to get bludgeoned by President Trump in the 2020 general election is Sen. Kamala Harris. You will recall from her classless performance in the now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, she believes […]
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Kerchner, Apuzzo Discuss Meaning and Significance of “natural born Citizen” pb
“THE CONSTITUTION CREATED OUR GOVERNMENT” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 2, 2015) — On Tuesday evening, CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret.) and Atty. Mario Apuzzo were guests on “The Wake-Up Mission Show” regularly hosted by former California gubernatorial candidate Chelene Nightingale and Randy Dees. On the morning of January 20, 2009, Apuzzo filed a lawsuit, […]
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Of Occam’s Razor and Natural Born Citizens, Part II (Conclusion)
“OF SEMINAL IMPORTANCE TO THE LEADERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (May 14, 2015) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the conclusion to the discussion begun in Part 1 of this series.] PARLEZ-VOUS ANGLAIS? One of the more novel yet disingenuous contrivances used in the 2011 CRS Report in the attempt to […]
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Of Occam’s Razor and Natural Born Citizens, Part 1
“THE MOST STRINGENT AND IMPENETRABLE BARRIERS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (May 12, 2015) — In science and mathematics as well as in other disciplines, including political discourse, there is a principle known as Occam’s razor. Reduced to its essence, it articulates the proposition that the simplest answer or explanation for a result is the one […]
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Media Continues to Equate “Citizen” with “Natural Born Citizen”
ARE THEY AFRAID OF HISTORY? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 25, 2015) — On Friday, Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau Chief Todd Gillman reported on remarks which prominent businessman Donald Trump made prior to the Iowa Freedom Summit, where a number of potential 2016 presidential candidates and current public servants assembled on Saturday. Sen. Charles Grassley […]
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Is Vattel Irrelevant to the “natural born Citizen” Question?
RESPONSE TO EXPOSURE OF OMITTED INFORMATION BY THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE EQUATES “NATIVE BORN” WITH “NATURAL BORN” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2011 (Aug. 19, 2011) — A short while ago – June 17, 2011, to be precise – one “nolu chan” posted to the Internet an article dismissing as irrelevant the work of Emmerich de Vattel […]
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Dictum Settles Nothing, Even in the Court That Utters It
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jun. 22, 2021) — Your humble servant’s post here seems to have touched multiple Wilson, Becker and perhaps Fremick nerves with regard to the discussion therein (and in the related comments) of several cases on the presidential eligibility issue. Your servant will attempt to address and soothe those frayed nerves. General […]
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The Tisdale Mirage
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jun. 17, 2021) — As your humble servant’s favorite former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, quipped when debating and dismantling Water Mondale’s doomed 1980 presidential campaign: “There you go again…” President Reagan’s timeless observation has renewed relevance as your servant composes this response to comments from “Wilson” and “Luke” regarding the matters set […]
