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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Did PragerU Respond to “natural born Citizen” Video Idea?
by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 14, 2023) — On Monday a citizen who responded to a request for “input” from the non-profit media platform PragerU, a producer of short informational videos with the purpose of presenting an alternative viewpoint of current events, received a reply to his submission. The reader cannot discern from PragerU’s acknowledgement whether […]
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In Defense of Speaker Johnson’s Amicus Effort
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Oct. 27, 2023) — Newly-installed Speaker of the House Michael Johnson (R. LA) has recently been vilified because of his role in the 2020 effort by the State of Texas to challenge in the Supreme Court the legitimacy of the 2020 general election. That still-questionable election – keep reading – resulted […]
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Some Free Advice to Speaker Mike Johnson
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Oct. 25, 2023) — Finally…, after weeks of telegraphing to the nation…, and the world.., how dysfunctional the GOP House of Representatives can be, that body has actually elected a new Speaker: Cong. Mike Johnson (R. LA). Simultaneously telegraphing its dogmatic and hyper-political disdain for healing the House in these – […]
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The Supreme Court Kicks the Can Down the Road
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Oct. 2, 2023) — Taking a cue from the U.S. Congress as that dysfunctional body addresses government shutdowns by “kicking the can down the road,” – for 47 days…, whoopee … – the U.S. Supreme Court has denied the certiorari petition of one John Castro. Your humble servant discussed the petition […]
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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 […]
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The Chutkan Ethical Lapse
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Aug. 29, 2023) — Several weeks ago, your humble servant made this offering. It was posited in support of the fact that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan – appointed by the Second Usurper in Chief (the “SUC”), Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. – was hopelessly, not to mention indisputably, compromised and conflicted […]
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Foolish Consistency, Little Minds and Hobgoblins
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Aug. 21, 2023) — As a preface to what follows, noted American author and philosophical thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Stated otherwise, Emerson was contending that pursuit of consistency for the sake of […]
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The Succession Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Aug. 9, 2023) — Sadly, the time has come for the Republic to prepare for a possible political upheaval not seen since the Civil War. As the Clown at 1600 often states: that is a fact…, not hyperbole. While the events precipitating the crisis might not occur today or tomorrow, circumstances […]
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Judge Tanya Chutkan
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Aug. 6, 2023) — Judge Tanya Chutkan of the Washington, D.C., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is the “randomly selected” – really? – jurist who will oversee the most recent indictment trial of Donald Trump, aka “45.” That case, of course, involves the assertion that he conspired to […]
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The Presidential Candidacy of Shiva Ayyadurai
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 18, 2023) — As noted here, earlier this year Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai formed an exploratory committee to “test the waters” for a run as an Independent for president and is now a full-fledged candidate as reflected in Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings. As also noted, the “long-shot” nature of that […]
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Revisiting Minor v. Happersett
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 17, 2023) — Well, faithful P&E readers, here we go again. As another “exploratory” candidate for president appears on the scene – Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai –, it may be prudent to once again revisit the Supreme Court’s 1875 decision in Minor v. Happersett. While the major holding of the case […]
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7 ≠ 6
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 11, 2023) — Mathematically, the number seven is unequal to the number six. Instead, it is one numeric unit more than the number six. For virtually all sentient humans, this is kindergarten arithmetic. However, for other mentally challenged outliers, it might as well be advanced tensor calculus. Cases in point: […]
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Will Brandon Do The Right Thing?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 4, 2023) — Today, most Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, the 247th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. From that day forward, a brave group of people began the process of severing the ties that had previously bound them to Great Britain and to eventually establish […]
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Of Loan Forgiveness and Psychoses
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 1, 2023) — Sometimes, the lunatic depravity of Brandon and his apparatchiks collides with that bulwark against governmental overreach: the Constitution. Case in point: the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Nebraska, declaring as unconstitutional his unilateral end-around-run on Congress and the Constitution to forgive perhaps as much […]
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A Deeper Dive Into the nbC Pond, Part 3
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 29, 2023) — [See previous installments in this series here and here. The “CKA” article referred to below can be found here. Emer de Vattel’s “treatise” is “The Law of Nations,” also referenced earlier in the essay. – Ed.] In reality, the notion that a child born anywhere in the […]
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A Deeper Dive Into the nbC Pond, Part 2
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 27, 2023) — [Please see Part 1 of this series here. – The “CKA” work referenced throughout is here. – Ed.] The Clement/Katyal Article The Clement/Katyal article – hereafter, for the sake of brevity, “CKA” – sets out, in some thirteen loosely-related contentions spread over four pages, the proposition that, […]
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A Deeper Dive Into the nbC Pond
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 26, 2023) — Introduction Faithful P&E readers, two events precipitate this offering, which is intended to examine more closely one of the favorite “authorities” normally cited by the Left in its quest to redefine the term “natural born Citizen” as included by the Founders in Art. 2, § 1, Cl. […]