Tag: Jack Maskell
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Will CRS “Sleight of Hand” Stand?
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 22, 2024) — On Saturday evening The Post & Email published an article by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio exposing misrepresentation by omission, later alteration and the disappearance of a Congressional Research Services (CRS) report on the meaning of the Article II, Section 1, clause 5 term of art, “natural born Citizen.” The…
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Some Footnote Comments to the “Pure Malarkey” Post
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jul. 21, 2021) — Periodically, your humble servant submits offerings to the intrepid Editor of The P&E on the topic of constitutional eligibility to the office of the president. This is also known as the “natural born Citizen” issue arising under Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5. On occasion, these posts…
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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility, Final Chapter
“NONSENSE ELEVATED TO AN ART FORM” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 9, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth and final installment of legal scholar Joseph DeMaio’s detailed analysis of the January 11, 2016 Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo authored by legislative attorney Jack Maskell attempting to make an “end-around run” to Article…
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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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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility
Since many “NOT WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 2, 2016) — Introduction With eerily increasing regularity, the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”) has produced yet another in its continuing periodic series of “products” (i.e., research memoranda and reports) calculated to convince the Congress, the judiciary, the U.S. electorate and the world at…
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Turbocharged Hypocrisy
WHY NOW? by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Jan. 20, 2016) — There exists in the world garden-variety hypocrisy. This form of the mental disorder is typically seen in the everyday comments and claims of liberals, progressives, most college “professors,” virtually all non-Fox media outlets and, of course, the vast majority of registered Democrats. Then there is…
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Of Words and the Fomenting of Revolutions
“WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS IT BECOMES NECESSARY….” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (Jul. 4, 2015) — On this July 4, 2015, some 240 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, people should stop and consider what has happened to this once-great nation, the “shining city on the hill,” since 2012. We are…
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Of Eligibility, Expediency and Humpback Whales
INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (Mar. 23, 2015) — “The only principle to which most politicians will unfailingly adhere is expediency.” — Anonymous Two recent events prompt this post. First, today, Senator Ted Cruz formally announced that he will be a candidate for the GOP nomination for president in 2016. The announcement was…
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No, Ted Cruz is Not Eligible
WILL REPUBLICANS UPHOLD ARTICLE II, SECTION 1, CLAUSE 5 IN 2016? by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2014 (Nov. 8, 2014) — On October 31, 2014, MinuteManNews.com published an article by Greg Conterio titled, “Yes, Ted Cruz is Eligible to Serve as President,” Over the past seven years, since the day Barack Obama crawled out of the political…
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L’État, C’est Moi
OBAMA, THE DE FACTO KING by Joseph DeMaio, ©2013 (Sep. 23, 2013) — The phrase “L’État, c’est moi” (French for “I am the state”) is traditionally attributed to King Louis XIV of France (1643 – 1715). He ruled that nation as its monarch for over 72 years in what some historians have characterized as an…
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Mainstream Newspaper Reports but Misinforms on Obama Birth Certificate pb
WHAT ABOUT THE FORGERY? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 27, 2013) — In a video report produced by The Texas Tribune presented at ORYR, the presidential eligibility of both Sen. Ted Cruz and Barack Hussein Obama is discussed, but the report misrepresents the facts about Obama’s birth certificates. The video focuses on town hall meetings held…
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Fox News Guest Mentions Presidential Eligibility
MOST BELIEVE THAT BIRTH IN THE U.S. EQUALS “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 14, 2013) — This evening during the 5:00 p.m. hour of Fox News Live, anchor Gregg Jarrett asked his panel of guests if it appeared that Hillary Rodham Clinton would run for president in 2016, to which political strategist Doug…







