Tag: naturalization
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SCOTUS, World Cup, The Odyssey: US Citizenship Suffers Summer of Degradation
by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2026 (Aug. 12, 2026) — An extremely bad Supreme Court decision coinciding with an international soccer tournament and a blockbuster Hollywood movie show that U.S. citizenship no longer belongs to us, but to the entire world. In Trump v. Barbara, the John Roberts SCOTUS Majority declared on June 30 that any child…
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Fox News Quotes AJ Kern on Ilhan Omar Findings
by Sharon Rondeau (May 21, 2026) — At 6:11 a.m. EDT Thursday, “Fox & Friends” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, in for Ainsley Earhardt, quoted former DFL primary candidate and Ilhan Omar challenger AJ Kern on her discovery that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) claimed naturalized citizenship through her father’s alleged naturalization in 2000 but that no evidence…
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Vance: “We Know” Omar “Committed Immigration Fraud”
by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 28, 2026) — In an interview Friday morning at the White House with podcaster Benny Johnson, Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration “thinks” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) “definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America.” He was not specific as to whether the fraud was on Omar’s…
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Ilhan Omar Investigation: A Conversation with Cheryl Lacey
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 11, 2026) — On Tuesday afternoon Eastern Time (U.S.)/8:00 a.m. Melbourne time Wednesday, The Post & Email‘s editor was a guest on “The Cheryl Lacey Show” to discuss developments in federal investigations into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s 2024 financial report, filed in May of last year, as well as longstanding allegations she…
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Trump Renews Call for Congresswoman’s Ouster from the Country
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 14, 2026) — On Wednesday morning President Trump repeated his apparent intent to see Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) expelled from the United States, asserting she “married her brother.” Trump has previously made that claim in regard to the “first Somali-American lawmaker in the United States,” terming her “a loser,” “a terrible…
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“Lawlessness” Up Here and Down Under: Minnesota Corruption and Ilhan Omar
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 10, 2025) — On Tuesday afternoon EST/Wednesday morning (Melbourne, Australia), The Post & Email‘s editor was a guest on “Leading Education with Cheryl Lacey” on WYN 88.9 FM under the topic of “lawlessness” worldwide. An educator, author, broadcaster and businesswoman, Lacey’s weekly program transcends “education” in the traditional sense as it…
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Trump Focuses on Ilhan Omar
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 19, 2025) — In a post on Truth Social Thursday evening following a two-day state visit to the UK, President Trump raised the allegation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) married her brother as part of a scheme to “gain citizenship.” “Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of…
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The Natural Born Citizen Conundrum
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Aug. 7, 2024) — INTRODUCTION As long-time P&E readers know, your humble servant has for many years railed on about the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) issue and how it has been handled (and mishandled) by commentators, scholars and governmental agencies such as the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”). But now, in mid-2024,…
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Harris, Deemed “Eligible,” Likely to Receive Democrat Presidential Nomination
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 1, 2024) — On July 26, NPR’s Stephen Fowler reported a revised nominating process for the Democrat 2024 presidential candidate following the withdrawal of Joe Biden from the race on July 21. “When will Kamala Harris be the official Democratic presidential nominee?” Fowler’s article is titled. “Democrats have approved rules for…
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A Critique of “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen,’” Part III
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Apr. 8, 2024) — [See the previous installments in this series here and here. The writer first presents text from Paul Clement and Neal Katyal’s 2015 subject essay followed by his own commentary in bold, indented text. Page breaks in the original C&K text are indicated in brackets.] Deep Dive Part…
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A Critique of “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen,’” Part II
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Apr. 4, 2024) — [Editor’s Note: Please see Part 1 of the author’s in-depth analysis of the captioned article, published in 2015 in the Harvard Law Review Forum by former Solicitors General Neal Katyal and Paul Clement. For additional background, see the author’s previous columns on the subject article here.] Author’s…
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A Critique of “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen’”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Apr. 2, 2024) — [Update, 5:58 p.m. EDT April 8, 2024: The last three paragraphs of the following initial segment of the author’s three-part analysis has been amended to reflect a discovered change in the subject article’s footnote #4.] Introduction In 2015, two former high officials in the Office of the…
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“Eligibility” Letter Sent to Presidential Candidate
[Editor’s Note: The following letter was sent to the Vivek Ramaswamy 2024 presidential campaign by P&E reader/commenter “phrowt.”] October 9, 2023 Mr. Vivek RamaswamyVivek 2024.comP.O. Box 1021Merrifield, VA 22116-1021 Dear Mr. Ramaswamy, Thank you for the opportunity to express my view of your candidacy for President of the United States. In the recent past I…
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A Deeper Dive Into the nbC Pond, Part 3
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 29, 2023) — [See previous installments in this series here and here. The “CKA” article referred to below can be found here. Emer de Vattel’s “treatise” is “The Law of Nations,” also referenced earlier in the essay. – Ed.] In reality, the notion that a child born anywhere in the…
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A Deeper Dive Into the nbC Pond, Part 2
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 27, 2023) — [Please see Part 1 of this series here. – The “CKA” work referenced throughout is here. – Ed.] The Clement/Katyal Article The Clement/Katyal article – hereafter, for the sake of brevity, “CKA” – sets out, in some thirteen loosely-related contentions spread over four pages, the proposition that,…
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A Deeper Dive Into the nbC Pond
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 26, 2023) — Introduction Faithful P&E readers, two events precipitate this offering, which is intended to examine more closely one of the favorite “authorities” normally cited by the Left in its quest to redefine the term “natural born Citizen” as included by the Founders in Art. 2, § 1, Cl.…
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The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 30, 2023) — The Heritage Foundation some time ago published “The Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” It was (and continues to be) billed as being “intended to provide a brief and accurate explanation of each clause of the Constitution as envisioned by the Framers and as applied in contemporary law”…
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The Goebbels Corollary
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 27, 2023) — Introduction Paraphrasing Third Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you are going to tell a lie, make it a big one, as no one will believe a small one, and repeat it over and over, because eventually people will come to accept it as the truth.”…
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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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Response to Some nbC Comments
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Dec. 2, 2022) — Well, here we go again. As faithful P&E readers know, on occasion several of your humble servant’s posts generate robust comments. These comments usually relate to posts addressing the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility clause of the Constitution, Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5. There, of…