by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Apr. 8, 2024) — [See the previous installments in this series here and here. The writer first presents text from Paul Clement and Neal Katyal’s 2015 subject essay followed by his own commentary in bold, indented text. Page breaks in the original C&K text are indicated in brackets.] Deep Dive Part […]
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A Critique of “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen,’” Part II
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Apr. 4, 2024) — [Editor’s Note: Please see Part 1 of the author’s in-depth analysis of the captioned article, published in 2015 in the Harvard Law Review Forum by former Solicitors General Neal Katyal and Paul Clement. For additional background, see the author’s previous columns on the subject article here.] Author’s […]
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A Critique of “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen'”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Apr. 2, 2024) — [Update, 5:58 p.m. EDT April 8, 2024: The last three paragraphs of the following initial segment of the author’s three-part analysis has been amended to reflect a discovered change in the subject article’s footnote #4.] Introduction In 2015, two former high officials in the Office of the […]
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Is Kennedy VP Pick a natural born Citizen?
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 1, 2024) — Last Tuesday, Independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. declared he had chosen attorney and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan, 38, as his vice-presidential running-mate. Both are former Democrats, with Kennedy in October changing his party affiliation to “Independent” in what he said was a “very painful” decision he […]
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More nbC Comments: More Humble Servant Responses
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Feb. 13, 2024) — One of the more useful features of The P&E platform, apart from the topical articles appearing here, is the comments section. There, some insightful and frequently robust discussions can take place where differing views can be voiced and compete with one another. Is not the First Amendment […]
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The USSC Oral Arguments in “Trump v. Anderson”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Feb. 9, 2024) — Well, oral arguments have been heard in the Supreme Court in the case of Trump v. Anderson (USSC Doc. 23-719). The case addresses the question of whether President Trump can be excluded from the primary election ballot in Colorado on the claim that Clause 3 of the […]
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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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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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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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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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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, […]
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nbC Warrior CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) Strikes Again
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 2, 2024) — With the possible exception of attorney Mario Apuzzo – passing away prematurely and lamentably in 2021 – one of the most vigorous warriors in the continuing battle over the issue of who is, and critically who is not a “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) under the Constitution, is […]
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A Five-Paragraph Treatise on nbC
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 13, 2023) — In the spirit of Christmas, and with hopes for a very Happy New Year for all P&E readers, your humble servant has determined to create and provide a gift. It is hoped that the gift may assist in explaining, in something of a “Cliff’s Notes®” abbreviated way, […]
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More News on Bing AI’s Views of an nbC
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 9, 2023) — As the issue of what it takes to be a “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) as intended by the Founders – as contrasted with contemporary wags and academics – continues to be “evaded” by the U.S. Supreme Court, your humble servant persists in interrogating Bing AI on the […]
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The Kerchner “Hint”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 6, 2023) — In response/comment to your humble servant’s post here, P&E contributor, reader and nbC warrior CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) suggested asking Bing AI if any of the Founders understood French. The response could shed light on a predicate foundation for the Founders’ use and understanding of Emer de […]
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The Bing AI Saga Continues
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 4, 2023) — Welllll…, the natural born Citizen (“nbC”) issue and the Bing AI responses to related questions continues to evolve. As faithful P&E readers recall, the intrepid Editor recently published a post regarding an email that your humble servant had sent to her. The post addressed, among other things, […]
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Bing AI Claims “Consensus” on “natural born Citizen” Definition
by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 30, 2023) — On Sunday, legal scholar and frequent P&E contributor Joseph DeMaio queried Bing Artificial Intelligence (AI) about the meaning of the U.S. Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” clause, one of three requirements the Founders placed in Article II for the President and Commander-in-chief of the new nation’s military forces. The […]
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In Defense of Jonathan Turley
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Sep. 9, 2023) — For anyone paying even passing attention, the name “Jonathan Turley” will be recognized as one of the few law professors remaining in academia willing publicly to defend the First Amendment, the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression it guarantees…, or at least at one time […]
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The Castro Disqualification and Eligibility Follies
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Sep. 6, 2023) — Well, faithful P&E readers, the 2024 race for the presidency just got a bit more interesting. In addition to all of the “usual suspects” currently recognized as competing against one another for the GOP nomination – President Trump; Governor DeSantis; Vivek Ramaswamy; etc. – a Texas tax […]