by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 3, 2023) — On Fox News’s Friday edition of “The Five,” speaking to the 2024 presidential election, guest co-host and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway cited the constitutional requirements for the nation’s chief executive to be “35 years old” and a “U.S. citizen.” “The Five” airs at 5:00 p.m. ET every […]
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Twitter User Asks Why Presidential Eligibility Requirements “Ignored”
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 1, 2023) — A Twitter user brings attention to the U.S. Constitution’s “eligibility requirements” for the president and vice president by describing them as “ignored.” “Patriotess” features the hashtag “naturalborncitizen” in her account header and asks, “WHY is Constitution Eligibility Requirements for POTUS/VP IGNORED?” The reference is to Article II, Section […]
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Open Letter to Donald Trump and Ronald DeSantis
May 25, 2023 Dear Messrs. Trump and DeSantis – Your humble servant has for many years offered comments here at The P&E on various issues, most relating to the “natural born Citizen” presidential eligibility question (no, I am not a “birther” or a “conspiracy theorist,” but instead a “constitutionalist”), as well as on a wide […]
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Brandon’s Approval Rating
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (May 22, 2023) — A new ABC/Washington (“Democracy Dies in Darkness”) Post poll discloses that Brandon’s net approval rating – 36% of responding participants, eclipsing his prior 2022 low of 37% – has dropped to its lowest point since he squatted in the White House. Stated otherwise, the dismal reality of […]
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The Ominous Mirage: Today’s FBI
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (May 22, 2023) — The motto of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) is: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. That motto, once true, is today in fundamental need of demolition and a total rebuild, as it now constitutes the spreading of disinformation. It is a mirage. Indeed, it could even constitute a […]
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Revisiting the Heritage Guide to the Constitution
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (May 13, 2023) — Introduction Recently, your humble servant addressed the flawed reasoning of the “Heritage Guide to the Constitution” (“Guide”) set out in its explanatory analysis of Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5. This, of course, is the Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential Eligibility Clause, the source of increasing scrutiny […]
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The LoC Kissing Cousin to the Heritage Guide
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (May 8, 2023) — Introduction In addition to the Heritage Foundation’s digital “Guide to the Constitution,” recently discussed by your humble servant here, a “kissing cousin” to that think tank’s explanation exists. Specifically, the U.S. Library of Congress (“LoC”) maintains a similar website purporting to “explain” what the Eligibility Clause of […]
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The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 30, 2023) — The Heritage Foundation some time ago published “The Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” It was (and continues to be) billed as being “intended to provide a brief and accurate explanation of each clause of the Constitution as envisioned by the Framers and as applied in contemporary law” […]
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The LLPAM Nightmare
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 24, 2023) — As if we needed any additional proof that the Goof at 1600 despises responsible Americans and adores irresponsible ones, look no farther than Brandon’s new rule, administered by Fannie Mae, requiring home mortgage seekers with high credit scores to be surcharged in order to subsidize persons with […]
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The Uber-Goof And His Pogrom Against America
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 23, 2023) — The outright malevolence and disdain for the rule of law and for ordinary Americans seems to have no limit in the Beltway, and particularly in the White House. There, Brandon broods over when to announce that he will again run for the office he has sullied more […]
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Information, Misinformation, Ipse Dixit and Censorship
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 22, 2023) — Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley recently posted an article pointing out the draconian censorship path upon which Great Britain is descending. It is a short, but ominous read. The censorship of free speech in England is plumbing new depths of lunacy and malevolence…, and yet Hillary (“BleachBit? […]
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Revisiting the POPE Option
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 18, 2023) — A few weeks ago, your humble servant offered an article suggesting a way of getting the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility issue under Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5 of the Constitution before the U.S. Supreme Court. As readers of The P&E well know, virtually all […]
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The Trans-Hyenas of San Francisco State University
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 10, 2023) — The recent assault upon former NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines is only one of the more recent outrages committed by the rabid hyenas of the “trans” movement. Following her speech last week at San Francisco State University defending women’s sports, Gaines said a man wearing a dress […]
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The Banana Yellow Indictment of President Trump
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 5, 2023) — Now that Manhattan Banana Republic District Attorney Alvin (“No Neck”) Bragg has made good on his campaign pledge to arrest President Trump as a private citizen (for the time being), the full, 3-D impaired malevolence of his psyche emerges. By leveraging various misdemeanor acts of “falsifying business […]
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The Banana Republic of Manhattan
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 31, 2023) — With the 100% politically-motivated “ham sandwich” and concocted indictment of President Trump announced yesterday, the District Attorney for the Borough of Manhattan – one Alvin (“No Neck”) Bragg, whose campaign for the office received a cool $1,000,000 from a PAC funded by radical leftist billionaire George Soros […]
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Author’s Response to “de Vattel Denier” Boggs
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 28, 2023) — On March 28, 2023 at 11:25 a.m., in response to the article authored by your faithful servant here, one “Lucius Boggs” wrote: “Label this comment – Everything that is old is new again.” After offering the above observation, the commenter then includes a live link to a […]
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The Goebbels Corollary
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 27, 2023) — Introduction Paraphrasing Third Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you are going to tell a lie, make it a big one, as no one will believe a small one, and repeat it over and over, because eventually people will come to accept it as the truth.” […]
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“Citizenship” vs. “natural born Citizen”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 26, 2023) — Your humble servant again responds to comments from “Lucius Boggs” made on March 24, 2023 at 11:10 a.m. to the article here. Boggs: Assistant Vice-Chancellor Lewis H. Sanford wrote the Lynch v Clarke opinion not Chancellor Nathan Sanford. Response: The correction is noted, but a new question […]
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Response to “Lucius Boggs” Critique on Presidential Eligibility
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 22, 2023) — The recent comments above by one “Lucius Boggs” in response to the article, “The Role of States and ‘POPE’s’ in Presidential Eligibility Determinations” are many and lengthy, thus necessitating longer than normal responses, below. Monday, March 20, 2023 at 1:33 PM Boggs: The author appears to ignore […]
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The Role of States and “POPE’s” in Presidential Eligibility Determinations
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 20, 2023) — Recently there appeared here at The P&E – one of the few remaining viable and non-censored Internet “natural born Citizen” information sources – a particularly relevant and insightful post. The P&E post reprised the article and substance of a proposal advanced here by one Roger Ogden. Mr. […]