Tag: § 212
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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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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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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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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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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…