Tag: Birthright Citizenship
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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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Birthright Citizenship Poses an Existential Threat in an Era of Cheap and Easy Global Travel
by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2026 (Sep. 9, 2026) — The automatic birthright citizenship policy of the United States, recently re-affirmed by the Supreme Court, is well-known throughout the world. I resided in Mexico for a decade and a half, and I learned that many Mexicans desire U.S. citizenship for themselves and their children. However, it’s…
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SCOTUS, World Cup, The Odyssey: US Citizenship Suffers Summer of Degradation
by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2026 (Aug. 12, 2026) — An extremely bad Supreme Court decision coinciding with an international soccer tournament and a blockbuster Hollywood movie show that U.S. citizenship no longer belongs to us, but to the entire world. In Trump v. Barbara, the John Roberts SCOTUS Majority declared on June 30 that any child…
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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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Former Obama Eligibility Challenger: “Undivided Political Allegiance at Birth” a Presidential Requirement
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 23, 2026) — On July 3, former Obama eligibility litigant Tracy Fair, writing as Lexi Fehr, announced she published a book addressing what she says are “the immense procedural hurdles citizens face when seeking judicial review of constitutional questions.” The work, titled “We The Sheeple: How the Media, Congress, and the…
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Trump vs Barbara–Too Much Thinking and Not Enough Wisdom
by Leonard Daneman, paraleaglenm, ©2026 (Jul. 13, 2026) — The U.S. Supreme Court accomplished nothing in the Trump vs Barbara [henceforth cited as Barbara] case except to preserve the ‘national consensus’ that the constitution guarantees that all children born on U.S. soil are U.S. citizens. Of course, children of ‘invaders’ are not citizens,[1] and any person entering our country…
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SCOTUS Upholds Birthright Citizenship — What Can We Do Now?
by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2026 (Jul. 6, 2026) — The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) released its long-awaited decision on automatic birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara on June 30, 2026. Jus soli (“right of the soil”) stems from interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868. On his…
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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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Report: SCOTUS “Birthright Citizenship” Opinion to be Issued This Week
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 21, 2026) — During the 7:00 a.m. of Sunday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” Fox News U.S. Supreme Court reporter and host of “Fox News Sunday” Shannon Bream reported a decision on a case brought by challengers to President Trump’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order #14160 doing away with the policy of…
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Was the Creation of Birthright Citizenship by the 1898 Wong Kim Ark Case a Strategic Invasion, Supported by ‘Capitalists?’
by Leonard Daneman, paraleaglenm, ©2026 (May 7, 2026) — Sen. Rand Paul submitted a bill to congress creating birthright citizenship in legislated act for children of aliens ‘lawfully domiciled,’ and not for children of illegal aliens. However, he cannot do this without first fully interpreting the exact meaning of the 14th Amendment, which grants ‘native…
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Birthright Citizenship–A Third World Invasion Created by the Judiciary
by Leonard Daneman, paraleaglenm.com, ©2026 (Apr. 14, 2026) — The Hamdi case (vs Rumsfeld) was a disgrace. If I recall, he was caught as a ‘driver for terrorists’ overseas, fighting for the Taliban. Under the INA, fighting with a foreign military force is grounds for denaturalization.1 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the State Department deportation…
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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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Maricopa County Republican Committee Links to P&E “Birthright Citizenship” Article, Discussion
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 7, 2026) — In a tweet on April 4, the Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) posted a link to an article by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio summarizing oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court three days earlier on the issue of “birthright citizenship” in Trump, et al v. Barbara, et al.…
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BORN IN THE USA: The Case Against Birthright Citizenship | by Dinesh D’Souza
reposted by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner (Apr. 7, 2026) — The case against birthright citizenship seems straightforward and persuasive. Is it really right for an eight-month pregnant Mexican woman to illegally cross the Rio Grande, give birth, and be allowed to stay in America because her newborn child is now…
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Trump to Address Nation at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 1, 2026) — President Trump will speak to the nation from the Oval Office at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday on the progress of the conflict with Iran, now in its fifth week. At the outset of hostilities on February 28, Trump suggested the mission would take perhaps four weeks to achieve its…
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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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The SEIU Phantom Sob Stories
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Feb. 27, 2026) — Introduction The “birthright citizenship” saga continues with the filing of a series of amicus curiae briefs in the Trump v. Barbara “birthright citizenship” case now pending in the Supreme Court. One of the latest is the brief of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), opposing, of course,…
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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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Don’t Rock the Boat
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Feb. 22, 2026) — The Brief of the Barbara Respondents (“BRB”) in Trump v. Barbara, the “birthright citizenship” case now pending in the Supreme Court, has been filed. Unsurprisingly, it regurgitates the same shopworn arguments already offered up in opposition to President Trump’s Executive Order (“EO”) 14160, i.e., that virtually anyone…
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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…