Category: Joseph DeMaio
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Wong Kim Ark and Gray’s Anomaly
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Apr. 23, 2025) — Introduction Following President Trump’s issuance of Executive Order 14160 challenging the generally-accepted current “birthright citizenship” narrative under the Fourteenth Amendment, several individuals and a number of States, unsurprisingly, filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the order. Thereafter, various district and Circuit Courts of Appeal either entered (or…
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The Mega Millions Evolution
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Mar. 26, 2025) — Every now and then, your humble servant takes a break from his pontifications on the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility issue. One such diversion is now offered: addressing the issue of lottery gambling here in the nation. Apart from the fact that the American Revolution was…
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The Irony of Opinions Relating to Orders
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Feb. 25, 2025) — The First Amendment suffered a body blow yesterday, and virtually no one in the electorate noticed, thanks to an indifferent press. Worse, it remains to be seen if anyone cares. In a case called Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale (“Coalition”), a majority of the Supreme Court…
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Revisiting the Qui Tam Gambit
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Feb. 5, 2025) — Now that the slug at 1600 and his intellectually crippled Attorney General, Merrick Garland, have been told by the electorate to “hit the road” and “get out of Dodge,” the time may be ripe to revisit the potential for a qui tam action. A qui what action? …
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A Small Fly in the nbC Ointment…
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Dec. 31, 2024) — When people identify a minor problem within an otherwise acceptable situation, they sometimes say, “There’s a fly in the ointment.” A succinct definition of the phrase and its meaning is found in the Cambridge Online Dictionary, defining it thusly: “a single thing or person that is spoiling a situation that could have been very positive or enjoyable.” As brief…
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Revisiting the Congressional Research Service 2016 nbC Report
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Dec. 21, 2024) — Introduction Once more, faithful P&E readers and students of the Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) Eligibility Clause – not a concocted, fictitious “’natural born’ Citizenship Clause” – grab your preferred caffeinated beverage and find a comfortable chair, because what follows gets a bit convoluted. Ready? The “natural…
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The Ayyadurai Debacle
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Nov. 23, 2024) — Whooo boyyy… here we go again. On Nov. 18, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its order denying the petition for certiorari in the case Shiva Ayyadurai v. New Jersey Democratic State Committee, (USSC Docket 24-342). The case, – and Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai’s claim that the “natural born…
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Donald Trump is a Red Corvette
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Sep. 24, 2024) — As we approach one of the most consequential elections since the founding of the Republic, perhaps a brief, very brief refresher course in some of the fundamentals is in order. Yes, faithful P&E readers, foremost among those fundamentals is the issue of whether Kamala Devi Harris is…
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Opinions Relating to Orders and the nbC Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Sep. 2, 2024) — Although not specifically addressed in the formal Rules of Procedure of the Supreme Court, in practice, however, the Court recognizes a protocol whereby an individual Justice can prepare and issue his or her comment on the summary disposition of cases by orders, e.g., if a Justice wants to dissent…
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NFRA on the Natural Born Citizen Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Aug. 27, 2024) — Well, whatta ya know. Yet another source – this time an established, tax-exempt IRS “527 Organization” rather than an individual human being – raises the issue of the likely compromised “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) bona fides of Kamala Devi Harris. The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (“NFRA”)…
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The EU DSA Letter
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Aug. 15, 2024) — The recent letter to Elon Musk by Monsieur Thierry Breton – “Il Duce” of the European Union’s (“EU”) speech police charged with enforcing that cabal’s “Digital Services Act” (“DSA,” i.e., arbitrary censorship law) – is interesting. Mercifully, the higher-ups in the EU have smacked Breton upside the…
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Some Additional nbC Developments
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Aug. 9, 2024) — As a brief follow-up to your humble servant’s most recent offering here, this one will be shorter. Your servant recently received information from long-time natural born Citizen (“nbC”) warrior, CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), further supporting the conclusions of the prior post. Specifically, the information coming…
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The Natural Born Citizen Conundrum
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Aug. 7, 2024) — INTRODUCTION As long-time P&E readers know, your humble servant has for many years railed on about the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) issue and how it has been handled (and mishandled) by commentators, scholars and governmental agencies such as the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”). But now, in mid-2024,…
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An Interesting Phenomenon
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jul. 20, 2024) — During the over-the-top successful GOP convention just concluded in Milwaukee, an interesting fact dawned upon your humble servant. As regular P&E readers well know, your servant has for over a decade contended that the Founders meant to include in their newly-minted Constitution a strong restriction on who…
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Of Political Earthquakes, Tsunamis and the 25th Amendment
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jun. 30, 2024) — The epicenter of the most recent political earthquake took place last Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia and lasted approximately 90 minutes. On the political Richter scale, it measured 10.0. And the 2024 presidential sweepstakes tsunami it has generated will soon inundate the nation. To begin with, the “debate”…
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The Even Shorter DeMaio P&E Post Ever
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Nov. 5, 2022) — Last July, your humble servant offered the “Shortest DeMaio P&E Post Ever.” It was 122 words long. It posited that Democrats then possessed of governmental power had forever forfeited any claim of right or competence to protect or govern a free people. That reality has only metastasized…
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The Shortest DeMaio P&E Post Ever
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jul. 25, 2022) — Most of your humble servant’s P&E offerings run for thousands of words. Not this one. Short and acidic: get rid of Democrats in positions of federal, state, county and municipal governmental authority. School boards and mainstream media propaganda outlets too. Top to bottom. Vote them out; recall…
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The Unanswered Question
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Apr. 19, 2022) — From time to time, your humble servant has found it useful to revisit the issue of presidential eligibility under Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5 of the Constitution and what the likely meaning of the term “natural born Citizen” therein was seen to be from the perspective…
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Laity Sends DeMaio’s “Open Letter” to U.S. Supreme Court, Receives Acknowledgement
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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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…