Tag: U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Joseph Story
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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 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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Observations from the Florida Common Law Grand Jury
“A PIVOTAL POINT IN OUR HISTORY” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 16, 2014) — On Thursday morning, The Post & Email published a press release from the National Liberty Alliance (NLA) which announced that the first common-law grand jury in eight decades would be seated in a county courthouse to perform its constitutionally-mandated function of examining…
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Can the Grand Jury Regain Its Rightful Place? pb
“A GREAT SECURITY TO THE CITIZENS AGAINST VINDICTIVE PROSECUTIONS” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 15, 2014) — Early on Thursday morning, the National Liberty Alliance (NLA) issued a press release which stated that a common-law grand jury would be seated in an official courthouse in Dixie County, FL that morning at 9:00 a.m. The NLA has…


