Tag: Minor v. Happersett
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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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Revisiting the Birthright Citizenship and nbC Issues
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Jan. 26, 2026) — INTRODUCTION As dedicated P&E readers are well aware, there is now pending in the Supreme Court the case of Trump v. Barbara. The case involves a challenge to President Trump’s Executive Order 14160 regarding the meaning of “birthright citizenship” under the 14th Amendment. Following a post by…
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Of Birthright Citizenship; 47’s Certiorari Petitions; the Tennessee Amicus Curiae Briefs; and the nbC Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Oct. 26, 2025) — INTRODUCTION Well, well, well… some sanity and rational thought may at last be seeping into the question and analysis of the so-called “birthright citizenship” issue under the 14th Amendment. As discussed by your humble servant earlier this year here, the 14th Amendment birthright citizenship issue is different,…
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Does Gray’s Anomaly Matter?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (May 9, 2025) — Introduction In the continuing saga of the impact (or, for anomaly-deniers) the purported immateriality of Associate Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray’s “Anomaly,” addressed here, a few fathoms in a deeper dive into the issue may help. This dive may have more relevance to the “natural born Citizen”…
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Revisiting the Congressional Research Service 2016 nbC Report
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Dec. 21, 2024) — Introduction Once more, faithful P&E readers and students of the Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) Eligibility Clause – not a concocted, fictitious “’natural born’ Citizenship Clause” – grab your preferred caffeinated beverage and find a comfortable chair, because what follows gets a bit convoluted. Ready? The “natural…
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Presidential Eligibility Suit: Harris not a “natural born Citizen”
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 2, 2024) — On August 26, Schuyler County, NY resident and registered voter Montgomery Blair Sibley uploaded his “Complaint for Declaratory Relief” filed August 12 in New York Supreme Court naming as defendant Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky “solely in her official capacity as Co-Executive Director of the New York Board of Elections…
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The “ONPS” Disorder
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Jan. 25, 2024) — The “Obot Neural Paralysis Syndrome” (for brevity, “ONPS”) continues to spread, despite all efforts to bring it to ground. Forget about Wuhan and the Covid-19 lab leak. The ONPS continues to attack functioning rational brain cells and neural synapses when it comes to the “natural born Citizen”…
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Laity Challenges Harris’s Eligibility in New Hampshire
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 14, 2023) — On Thursday morning, New York State resident and registered voter Robert C. Laity filed a complaint with the state of New Hampshire against Kamala Harris, who ran as Joe Biden’s vice president and currently occupies the position. The Election Law Complaint Form Laity completed to file his complaint…
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The Castro Disqualification and Eligibility Follies
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Sep. 6, 2023) — Well, faithful P&E readers, the 2024 race for the presidency just got a bit more interesting. In addition to all of the “usual suspects” currently recognized as competing against one another for the GOP nomination – President Trump; Governor DeSantis; Vivek Ramaswamy; etc. – a Texas tax…
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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…
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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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Response to “Lucius Boggs” Critique on Presidential Eligibility
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 22, 2023) — The recent comments above by one “Lucius Boggs” in response to the article, “The Role of States and ‘POPE’s’ in Presidential Eligibility Determinations” are many and lengthy, thus necessitating longer than normal responses, below. Monday, March 20, 2023 at 1:33 PM Boggs: The author appears to ignore…
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Additional Responses to More nbC Comments
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Dec. 6, 2022) — True to form, the lively discussions about what the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) clause in the Constitution means; where it originated; and why it remains important continue. Recent comments here, here and here have generated much back and forth discussion between the two opposing viewpoints on these…
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A “Minor” Clarification
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Nov. 28, 2022) — Your humble servant has a “minor” clarification to make relating to some of his prior posts here at The P&E. These matters are brought to P&E readers’ attention out of an abundance of caution lest those prior posts leave a confusing or misleading impression regarding the history…
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Laity v. Harris: A Hypothetical Amicus Curiae Brief
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (May 9, 2021) — Rule 37 of the U.S. Supreme Court Rules deals with amicus curiae briefs. Rule 37(1) states, in relevant part: “An amicus curiae brief that brings to the attention of the Court relevant matter not already brought to its attention by the parties may be of considerable help…
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More “Deportation Docket” Documents on Kamala Harris’s Mother Released by Mysterious Twitter Account
WHAT WAS HER IMMIGRATION STATUS? by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 24, 2020) — On Wednesday, the Twitter account @KancelKamala (also @KamalaKancel) posted additional documents associated with Shyamala Gopalan Harris, the late mother of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala D. Harris, following Tuesday’s release of a “Deportation Docket” document indicating Gopalan Harris submitted an application under “Sec. 245”…
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Did the 19th Amendment Create a Two-Parent Citizenship Requirement for natural born Citizens?
“THAT GIVES US A TWO-PARENT RULE” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 27, 2017) — In an interview on Wednesday evening concerning his Obama eligibility/forgery lawsuit, plaintiff Cody Robert Judy related a new development in which the U.S. Supreme Court has not docketed his request filed for a Writ of Mandamus with Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch some…
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Will Dinesh D’Souza Find Anything on Obama at Columbia?
OR IS THERE NOTHING TO FIND? by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 18, 2017) — In a tweet on Saturday afternoon, film producer, commentator and author Dinesh D’Souza announced that he will be speaking at Columbia University on Tuesday, where Barack Hussein Obama’s life narrative says he attended from 1981 to 1983. “If I have time I’ll…
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Where Did He Stand on Obama’s Q – Question in Confirmation Hearings to Justice Neil Gorsuch
BIGGEST FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY by Cody Robert Judy, ©2017 (Feb. 1, 2017) — WHERE DID DONALD J TRUMP’s Nomination of 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Justice Neil Gorsuch come down on Barack Obama’s Qualification for U.S. President? The grueling nomination process has only just begun for Justice Neil Gorsuch who no doubt will…
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Democrats BLIND to the Pain – Dems Gasp at Trump’s Power as 7 Countries Banned
“RULE BY FIAT” by Cody Robert Judy, ©2017 (Jan. 29, 2017) — For eight years Democrats and Establishment Republicans refused to see Obama as a constitutionally-ineligible person in the Office of the President. An illegal in the highest office was a slam to the U.S. Constitution and the requirements of [natural born Citizen] ie. born…