Category: Natural Born Citizen
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Yet Another Modest Proposal
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Oct. 4, 2026) — As faithful P&E readers will recall, over the years your humble servant has made several “modest proposals” seeking to address unresolved issues then percolating in the Republic. Most, if not all of those proposals, have dealt with the “birthright citizenship” and “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) matters under…
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The Fallout From Trump v. Barbara
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Aug. 22, 2026) — INTRODUCTION The recent SCOTUS decision in Trump v. Barbara – holding, among other things, that if born here on U.S. soil, the child of an illegal alien or a foreigner unlawfully present here is nonetheless a U.S. citizen – continues to produce fallout. While technically not radioactive,…
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In Defense of Professor Ilan Wurman
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Jul. 31, 2026) — Professor who? … you may ask. Pay attention, faithful P&E readers, as the following will give you a better understanding of the intellectual goo that presently passes for “viewpoint tolerance” and “academic integrity” on many of the Republic’s university and college campuses, especially in the law “schools”…
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86 – nbC
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Jul. 26, 2026) — Introduction The following offering on the “birthright citizenship” decision in Trump v. Barbara picks up where your humble servant’s initial offering left off. Specifically, it will address in greater detail the remote – yet now thanks to the Barbara decision – actual potential for the neutering…
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New Book Announced: We the Sheeple | by Lexi Fehr
We the Sheeple | by Lexi Fehr | via CDR Kerchner (Ret)’s Blog (Jul. 3, 2026) — Author’s Book Description from Amazon.com Listing: What if one of the Constitution’s most important safeguards has been quietly ignored, not through open defiance, but through misunderstanding, neglect, and the slow erosion of historical memory? For more than eighteen…
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Birthright Citizenship, the 14th Amendment and the Inertia of Indifference
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Jun. 30, 2026) — [Author’s Note: A more detailed analysis will follow after the opinion (and the dissents) are more carefully reviewed.] Heads up, faithful P&E readers: this is big. The Supreme Court has released its decision in Trump v. Barbara, the “birthright citizenship” case that has attracted much attention since…
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Exclusive: Yahoo AI: Vattel “Primary Authority” on “natural born Citizen”
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 26, 2026) — On Wednesday, “Scout,” Yahoo!’s artificial intelligence tool, asserted to longtime P&E reader Creg Maroney that Emmerich de Vattel is “the primary legal authority” on the Article II term “natural born Citizen.” The Framers settled on just three requirements for the President and Commander-in-Chief contained in Article II, Section…
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April Fool’s Day, 2026
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Feb. 7, 2026) — INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court has set April 1, 2026 as the date the Justices will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the much anticipated “birthright citizenship” case. With any kind of luck, the Court will uphold President Trump’s efforts to end automatic “birthright citizenship” for every…
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Revisiting the Birthright Citizenship and nbC Issues
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Jan. 26, 2026) — INTRODUCTION As dedicated P&E readers are well aware, there is now pending in the Supreme Court the case of Trump v. Barbara. The case involves a challenge to President Trump’s Executive Order 14160 regarding the meaning of “birthright citizenship” under the 14th Amendment. Following a post by…
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American Military Officers Honoring Their Oath To Defend The Constitution
November 23, 2025 Mr. President, a US Army surgeon and lieutenant colonel, Dr. Terrance Lee Lakin, once requested of his chain of command to authenticate his orders as legitimate and legal to redeploy to a combat theater of operations and was soon after court-martialed for failing to show up for his unit’s deployment after he…
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Of Birthright Citizenship; 47’s Certiorari Petitions; the Tennessee Amicus Curiae Briefs; and the nbC Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Oct. 26, 2025) — INTRODUCTION Well, well, well… some sanity and rational thought may at last be seeping into the question and analysis of the so-called “birthright citizenship” issue under the 14th Amendment. As discussed by your humble servant earlier this year here, the 14th Amendment birthright citizenship issue is different,…
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Proof John Jay Had a Copy and Used Vattel’s Legal Treatise ‘Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law’ During Nation’s Founding
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2025 (Sep. 27, 2025) — Vattel’s legal treatise was mentioned in communications between John Jay and others during the revolution and founding and framing time period. Vattel’s legal treatise was a very important guiding light and legal reference to the Founders and Framers in the justifying…
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The Linguistic and Logical Aspects of the Term “Natural Born Citizen” by Andy Prior
Reposted by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), at cdrkerchner from Andy Prior, Medium, “No rights reserved,” Jan. 15, 2016 (Sep. 20, 2025) — Recently, I was advised by a fellow Texan, who supported an ineligible candidate for POTUS, that: “In order for your argument to have any merit at all, you must provide evidence…
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Constitution Day – 17 Sep 2025: A Lesson from History. Is Being a Born Citizen of the United States Sufficient Citizenship Status to be President? The Founders and Framers Emphatically Decided — No It Is Not!
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., P.E. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2025 (Sep. 17, 2025) — During the process of developing the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton submitted a suggested draft for a Constitution on June 18, 1787. At some point, he also suggested to the framers a proposal for the qualification requirements in Article II…
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The Simmering nbC Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Sep. 12, 2025) — Introduction As the “birthright citizenship” issue strolls its way through the lower federal courts, its related “kissing cousin” issue – the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility restriction – remains on a back burner, simmering in a pot of widespread electorate, academic and media indifference. Happily, one…
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“Birthright Citizenship” of Child of Foreign Diplomat Revoked
by Sharon Rondeau, h/t CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2025 (Sep. 6, 2025) — In a striking opinion issued last month, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s opinion that now 75-year-old Roberto Moncada, though born in the United States, should not have been…
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Arpaio: Will Act against “Obama/Biden Admin”
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 31, 2025) — In an X post on Thursday afternoon, former Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, 93, promised to “take action against the organized efforts by the Obama/Biden admin to take me down.” “Obama and his Democrat allies are still after me for my investigation into Obama, my fight against…
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Natural Observations of Obama-ID Narrative-Reality, 08-28-08 to 08-28-25
by Jonathan David Mooers, ©2025 (Aug. 28, 2025) — America’s “birthers” have reached an historic milestone today: the 17th anniversary of disclosing the fraudulent Obama-ID narratives to U.S. citizens and the world. Today marks 17 unprecedented years of birther knowledge-patriots doing the Obama-frauds “Homework for the Homeland” EVERY DAY for some 6,211 continuous days! Unpunished Insider Traitor, former U.S. Speaker Nancy Patricia…
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Exclusive: Without Media, “Fact-Checker” Narrative, AIs Find Obama Birth Certificate, Selective Service Form Fraudulent
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 24, 2025) — Over the weekend of August 9 and 10, The Gateway Pundit sponsored a conference recognizing the persecution and prosecution of several well-known individuals serving in the first Trump administration who are now “vindicated.” Former Trump personal attorney and New York City (“America’s”) Mayor Rudy Giuliani; former Trump National…
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Additional Thoughts on Gray’s Anomaly
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Jun. 5, 2025) — As the Republic awaits a decision from the Supreme Court on the 14th Amendment “birthright citizenship” issue, where President Trump seeks a stay on several “nationwide injunctions” entered by lower district court trial judges (USSC Docket Nos. 24A884; 24A885 and 24A886) – said injunctions, in your humble…