Tag: Fourteenth Amendment
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The Fight for Religious Exemptions Continues
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 23, 2026) — In a recent episode of her podcast, “On Call,” Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, MD interviewed Atty. Brian Festa of We the Patriots USA, a non-profit law firm advocating for the restoration of religious exemptions to government-issued mandates for schoolchildren. Early in the interview, Festa presented the argument that…
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Corporate Personhood: Constitutional Doctrine Without Constitutional Text, Part II
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Jul. 27, 2026) — Part II — Santa Clara: The Decision That Never Explained Itself. The constitutional transformation of corporations from artificial beings to constitutionally protected political actors is often traced to the Supreme Court’s 1886 decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The litigation involved California’s…
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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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Partisan Redistricting: Taking Political Power from Voters
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Jun. 1, 2026) — The U.S. Constitution protects the rights of citizens. It says nothing about protecting politicians from voters. Yet with the rise of partisan redistricting — especially mid-decade redistricting — citizens are increasingly treated as political commodities to be rearranged for partisan advantage. Elected officials are supposed to…
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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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Birthright Citizenship is National Suicide
by Daniel Greenfield, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Apr. 4, 2026) — Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as a terrorist group allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well. That’s…
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Obergefell v. Hodges: A Wrongheaded SCOTUS Decision
by Jeffrey Ludwig, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Oct. 9, 2025) — In a recent article, Emily Wood Hawley passionately remarks, “Marriage does not truly exist outside of what God established — a sacred union between one man and one woman for life — because the state cannot redefine an institution God ordained.” The redefinition Hawley is…
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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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“Birthright Citizenship” Hearing Tuesday Afternoon
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 25, 2025) — 2:04 p.m. EST – At any moment, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will convene a hearing titled, “‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’: Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.” The hearing follows President Donald Trump’s executive order, signed his first day in office, halting…
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Exclusive Interview with CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret) on His New Book, Part III
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 16, 2025) — [See Part I and Part II of this series here and here.] Last week The Post & Email interviewed CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), one of the earliest legal challengers to Barack Hussein Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president and commander-in-chief, about his latest book, “Kerchner…
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The Insidious Mile-High Frankenstein Brain…, Burp
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 22, 2023) — INTRODUCTION Well, faithful P&E readers, buckle up: the Colorado Supreme Court, consisting of seven judges – all appointed by Democrat Colorado governors – has issued an opinion in a case captioned Anderson v. Griswold. The decision purports to bar President Trump from the Colorado primary ballot, allegedly…
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AI Says “the Courts” Will Resolve “NBC” Question
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 16, 2023) — On Thursday, reader Robert C. Laity followed up on his previous “conversation” with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence (AI) regarding the definition of “natural born Citizen,” one of the requirements in Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution for the president and commander-in-chief. Laity commented after initially making…
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For an Immediate and Orderly Defense of the Constitutional Order
From the website “From Rome“ Dear Governors of the Several States, What America witnessed yesterday in Washington, D. C., was not a disgraceful tragedy of unruly protestors, but the disgraceful and shameful behavior of the Vice President, Mike Pence, in proceeding to regard the Electoral Ballots of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as…
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The Decisions in Elliott v. Cruz and Williams v. Cruz
“A BLIND RUBBER-STAMPING” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 25, 2016) — Introduction No sooner had your faithful servant submitted the prior post here analyzing the myriad anomalies of the January 11, 2016 Congressional Research Service Report R4209732 entitled “Qualifications [sic] for President and the ‘Natural Born’ Citizenship [sic] Eligibility Requirement” when the news broke that…
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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility, Part III
“A FALSE IMPRESSION” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 7, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of an in-depth analysis by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio of the January 11, 2016 Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo as it addresses, or fails by omission to address, the meaning and intent of the term “natural born…
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Voter Anger Over Republican Election Fiasco
“NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” PROVISION “NOT REPEALED” by Ken Post, ©2016 (Jan. 17, 2016) — [As is the case with the previous “news announcement” written by this author, the following is fictional, although based on events which have occurred and could yet occur.] << The Consequential News>> November 4, 2016 Republican voters are turning their anger…
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On the Horns of a Dilemma
TRUMP PUSHES “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” QUESTION INTO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016 (Jan. 8, 2016) — Yes, Democrats find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. After shielding a patently ineligible and thoroughly incompetent usurper from public scrutiny for the past eight years, they would love to unmask the two remaining Republican presidential…
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The Constitution – Protects and Portends
“VIGILANCE WILL FOREVER BE REQUIRED” by Dwight Kehoe, ©2015, Editor, TPATH (Mar. 9, 2015) — Over the centuries mankind has developed technology, made amazing breakthroughs in science and medicine. We have just barely begun to understand the spectacular vastness of the world God has given us. His heavens, our universe. Through those thousands of generations most conditions…
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President’s Day 2015
“THE USURPER’S NAME IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (Feb. 16, 2015) — On this February 16, we observe what has come to be called “President’s Day.” Originally, the holiday in February was known as “Washington’s Birthday” and was observed on his actual birthday, February 22. However, in 1968, Congress passed the “Uniform…