Category: Supreme Court
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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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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Gerrymandering
by David Shephard, ©2026 (May 1, 2026) — When I was in college, I remember having a discussion in a political science class about the creative drawing, by state legislatures, of majority-minority districts, and the political ramifications of such districts. I am referring to districts where black voters, while a minority in the country, make…
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Clarence Thomas and Our Founding Principles
by Jerry Newcombe, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Apr. 23, 2026) — It’s not often that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas speaks in public. Clarence Thomas has now served longer than anyone else on the court—since the fall of 1991. What he said last week should be heard by every American. He called the nation back to our founding…
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Birthright Citizenship: American Sovereignty Dangling By a Thread in the Supreme Court
by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2026 (Apr. 12, 2026) — The news is full of foreign policy crises, scandals, conflicts, and trends in all directions. However, a current case before the U.S. Supreme Court tops it all. It’s the birthright citizenship case, which determines the future of our nation and what sort of country it…
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The Trump v. Barbara Oral Arguments Fallout
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Apr. 3, 2026) — Well, the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the “birthright citizenship” case, are over and the matter is now under advisement with SCOTUS. Interested readers can view the transcript here. And as usual, the armchair pontificators are busily at work tapping out their predictions on their keyboards…,…
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Birthright Citizenship Eligibility – Allegiance and Legal Domicile are the Keys -U. S. Solicitor General’s Opening Arguments in Birthright Citizenship Case
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2026 (Apr. 3, 2026) — Watch and Listen – Allegiance is the Key and Lawful Permanent Domicile Helps Establish It : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuWhShQJVeo Also Read these Quotable Quotes from History Regarding Citizenship : https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2024/06/14/quotable-quotes-re-citizenship-kinds-allegiance-and-the-presidential-eligibility-clause-in-the-united-states-constitution/ CDR Charles Kerchner, P.E. (Retired)Author: “Natural Born Citizen”and “Kerchner v Obama – The Advertorial Campaign“https://www.kerchner.com/books/catalog.htmhttps://cdrkerchner.wordpress.comhttps://www.scribd.com/user/52640192/protectourliberty/listshttp://www.protectourliberty.org
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“Birthright Citizenship” Oral Argument to Take Place Wednesday Morning
by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 31, 2026) — On Wednesday beginning at 10:00 AM EDT, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump, et al. v Barbara, et al., known colloquially as the “birthright citizenship” case. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14160 titled, “PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN…
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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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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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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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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…
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Oral Argument on Nationwide Injunctions, “Birthright Citizenship” EO
by Sharon Rondeau (May 15, 2025) — At approximately 10:38 a.m. EDT, this writer was able to access audio of oral arguments being presented in three cases challenging President Trump’s executive order expressing his interpretation of “birthright citizenship” as excluding children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens or to individuals sojourning within its borders.…
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Does Gray’s Anomaly Matter?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (May 9, 2025) — Introduction In the continuing saga of the impact (or, for anomaly-deniers) the purported immateriality of Associate Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray’s “Anomaly,” addressed here, a few fathoms in a deeper dive into the issue may help. This dive may have more relevance to the “natural born Citizen”…
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SCOTUS to Hear Oral Argument on Nationwide Injunctions, “Birthright Citizenship” May 15
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 24, 2025) — On April 17, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its scheduling of oral argument for May 15 to resolve legal challenges to President Donald Trump‘s January 20, 2025 executive order rescinding the practice of awarding citizenship to virtually anyone born within the United States. Numerous cases filed just after…
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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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Supreme Court Rules Utah Doesn’t Have a Right to Its Own Land
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2025 (Mar. 17, 2025) — In 2013, Utah submitted its Transfer of Public Lands Act to the federal government, calling on it “to fulfill its pledge under the state’s Enabling Act to dispose of most federal lands in the state, some of which would be placed back to the…