Tag: Joseph DeMaio
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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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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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‘Citizen at Birth’ Term vs ‘natural born Citizen’ Term: Grammatical and Logical Analysis
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2024 (Aug. 9, 2024) — First, let us put on our thinking hat and do some simple grammatical analysis of the two terms ‘Citizen at Birth’ (“CAB”) and ‘natural born Citizen’ (“nbC”). The first term, “CAB”, tells the reader simply WHEN the person became a…
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Bing AI Claims “Consensus” on “natural born Citizen” Definition
by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 30, 2023) — On Sunday, legal scholar and frequent P&E contributor Joseph DeMaio queried Bing Artificial Intelligence (AI) about the meaning of the U.S. Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” clause, one of three requirements the Founders placed in Article II for the President and Commander-in-chief of the new nation’s military forces. The…
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Laity Sends DeMaio’s “Open Letter” to U.S. Supreme Court, Receives Acknowledgement
by Sharon Rondeau (May 31, 2021) — The plaintiff in a case docketed at the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled for conference last Thursday challenging Kamala Harris’s constitutional eligibility to serve has received an acknowledgement of Laity’s having electronically sent through the court’s website a link to “Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas” authored by legal…
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“US Senate” Reads Article Calling Out Schumer, Congressional Democrats
“NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 5, 2020) — Within an hour of The Post & Email’s publication of an editorial excoriating Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his comments directed by name to two U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday, a member or staffer of that chamber accessed the article.…
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New York State Senate Lands on Presidential Eligibility Article
“BORN A CITIZEN” OR “NATURAL BORN?” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 5, 2019) — According to The Post & Email’s statistics counter, at 4:09 p.m. EDT a reader with a “New York Senate” IP address accessed an article by legal scholar and prolific writer Joseph DeMaio raising the question as to whether or not Democratic presidential…
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Exclusive: U.S. Senate Checks Out Ilhan Omar Citizenship Article
WHY IS VIDEO/ARTICLE ON CONTROVERSIAL CONGRESSWOMAN SCRUBBED? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 27, 2019) — Just before 4:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, a user with a “US Senate” IP address accessed an editorial written by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio titled, “Is Ilhan Omar a U.S. Citizen?” The article, published on July 24, brings to readers’ attention…
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Why Won’t the Obama Birth Certificate Issue Go Away?
“THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS THING IS GOING TO SURFACE” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 16, 2018) — In the first segment of last night’s “Freedom Friday” radio show with Carl Gallups, Obama birth certificate investigator Mike Zullo opined that in light of a number of FBI agents reportedly being willing to testify about corruption within the…
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The Decisions in Elliott v. Cruz and Williams v. Cruz, Conclusion
“FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED REASONING” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 26, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of Joseph DeMaio’s detailed analysis of the outcome of two challenges to the constitutional eligibility of Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to a non-U.S.-citizen father and a presumed U.S.-citizen mother on…
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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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Is No One Questioning Constitutional Eligibility?
“NO PERSON, EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN…” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 8, 2015) — On Saturday afternoon, author Jack Cashill posted a Republican presidential poll asking readers to name their top three candidates among a field of 17 who have declared they are seeking the office for 2016. The survey can be found here. When…
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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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Maryland Presidential Eligibility Case Reaches U.S. Supreme Court
“NATURAL LAW CAN’T BE CHANGED” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 6, 2015) — Tracy A. Fair of Sykesville, MD has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari in a case in which she asks the court to define the meaning of “natural born Citizen,” a term of art found in Article II of…
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Media Continues to Equate “Citizen” with “Natural Born Citizen”
ARE THEY AFRAID OF HISTORY? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 25, 2015) — On Friday, Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau Chief Todd Gillman reported on remarks which prominent businessman Donald Trump made prior to the Iowa Freedom Summit, where a number of potential 2016 presidential candidates and current public servants assembled on Saturday. Sen. Charles Grassley…



