Tag: natural born citizen
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Constitution Day – 17 Sep 2025: A Lesson from History. Is Being a Born Citizen of the United States Sufficient Citizenship Status to be President? The Founders and Framers Emphatically Decided — No It Is Not!
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., P.E. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2025 (Sep. 17, 2025) — During the process of developing the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton submitted a suggested draft for a Constitution on June 18, 1787. At some point, he also suggested to the framers a proposal for the qualification requirements in Article II…
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The Simmering nbC Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Sep. 12, 2025) — Introduction As the “birthright citizenship” issue strolls its way through the lower federal courts, its related “kissing cousin” issue – the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility restriction – remains on a back burner, simmering in a pot of widespread electorate, academic and media indifference. Happily, one…
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“Birthright Citizenship” of Child of Foreign Diplomat Revoked
by Sharon Rondeau, h/t CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2025 (Sep. 6, 2025) — In a striking opinion issued last month, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s opinion that now 75-year-old Roberto Moncada, though born in the United States, should not have been…
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Natural Observations of Obama-ID Narrative-Reality, 08-28-08 to 08-28-25
by Jonathan David Mooers, ©2025 (Aug. 28, 2025) — America’s “birthers” have reached an historic milestone today: the 17th anniversary of disclosing the fraudulent Obama-ID narratives to U.S. citizens and the world. Today marks 17 unprecedented years of birther knowledge-patriots doing the Obama-frauds “Homework for the Homeland” EVERY DAY for some 6,211 continuous days! Unpunished Insider Traitor, former U.S. Speaker Nancy Patricia…
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New: Arpaio’s Publisher Speaks
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 22, 2025) — On Tuesday afternoon, Defiance Press, which published former Sheriff Joseph Arpaio’s 2020 memoir containing a chapter dedicated to the Obama birth certificate probe, promoted the work by posting short excerpts on X while claiming, as Arpaio did last week, “Fox News silenced investigators.” As The Post & Email…
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Additional Thoughts on Gray’s Anomaly
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Jun. 5, 2025) — As the Republic awaits a decision from the Supreme Court on the 14th Amendment “birthright citizenship” issue, where President Trump seeks a stay on several “nationwide injunctions” entered by lower district court trial judges (USSC Docket Nos. 24A884; 24A885 and 24A886) – said injunctions, in your humble…
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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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“Birthright Citizenship” and the Amicus Curiae
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (May 2, 2025) — Introduction In the law, there is a term known as amicus curiae. In English, the term translates from Latin to mean a “friend of the court.” Normally, the term refers to a legal brief prepared by people or organizations other than the actual party-litigants and purporting to…
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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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Despite “Mootness” Ruling, Presidential Eligibility Question Remains, Plaintiff Says
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 16, 2025) — In a Substack post on Tuesday, the plaintiff in a case challenging Kamala Harris’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president reported the issuance of an opinion from the New York Court of Appeals pending since November. Last August, former attorney, New York State registered voter and plaintiff Montgomery…
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The Mega Millions Evolution
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Mar. 26, 2025) — Every now and then, your humble servant takes a break from his pontifications on the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility issue. One such diversion is now offered: addressing the issue of lottery gambling here in the nation. Apart from the fact that the American Revolution was…
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The Irony of Opinions Relating to Orders
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Feb. 25, 2025) — The First Amendment suffered a body blow yesterday, and virtually no one in the electorate noticed, thanks to an indifferent press. Worse, it remains to be seen if anyone cares. In a case called Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale (“Coalition”), a majority of the Supreme Court…








