Posted on 12/21/2024 5:39:14 PM PST by CDR Kerchner
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 born Citizen” (“nbC”) issue remains unresolved, but at least the threat of yet another ineligible president at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been avoided through the Nov. 5, 2024 election of Donald Trump and the rejection of Kamala Harris. That fact will remain true, of course, only if before January 20, 2025 (a) the slug at 1600 (aka “Brandon”) does not resign or (b) he avoids duplicating the “Pelosi Polka” down a flight of stairs, cracks his head open and demises on the spot. Either way, VP Harris would become President, if only until noon on Jan. 20, 2025.
The Elg Ellipsis Prelude
As P&E readers will also recall, your humble servant has for years criticized the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”) for playing “fast and loose” with the words of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. As but one example, through the use of grammatical ellipses, the actual words of the Supreme Court’s decision in Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939) were in at least two instances – a CRS “memo” dated April 3, 2009 and a CRS “Report” dated Nov. 14, 2011 – substantively altered. ... continue reading this very revealing article about deceptive practice of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) in its reports to Congress, past and present, and their coverup in process, at the link below.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostemail.com ...
The culprits at the CRS, were and are likely doing this at the behest of Nancy Pelosi. They need to have the public lime-light shined on them for that they have done and are doing in CYA mode now, need to be publicly exposed and punished. This needs to be exposed to the greater public and be made part of the history of events as to how our great constitutional republic was almost driven off a cliff by allowing the constitutionally ineligible persons of Obama and Harris to gain their respective high offices, and use their ill gotten power to try and wreck the country and convert it into a Socialist/Marxist hell-hole.
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CDR Charles Kerchner (Retired), Lehigh Valley PA USA, Author: Natural Born Citizen
An eerie silence fell over the thread...
Yes, I noticed that too. If it was Facebook or Twitter before it became X, I would suspect “shadow banning” of some type. I hope the deep state does not have any “friends” here. LOL
Even if they're not vocal you can bet they're lurking.
Here is a link to another site regarding how important that nefarious CRS memo was in affecting the 2008 election. I wonder if Jack Maskell could be charged with election interference, or some other federal crime, either for what he did back then or for what he is doing now to cover up what he did back then.
The memo that changed America – The Radio Patriot
https://radiopatriot.net/2010/12/01/the-memo-that-changed-america/
I and my attorney Mario Apuzzo were on that radio show a couple times, along with many others back in 2009 and 2010 while my lawsuit was active and working its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. See: http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/radio-tv-news-interviews.htm
As all who followed the case, and many others after mine, they were turned away by all the courts using the “lack of standing” technicality tactic for the most part.
And the country paid the price for SCOTUS not taking the my case or another one on a “first impressions” basis to once and for all investigate the original intent, meaning, and understanding of the “natural born Citizen” term in the presidential eligibility clause in our U.S. Constitution, and render a decision as to how that term’s true meaning as the founders and framers intended it to mean for future Presidents and Commander in Chiefs, as directly applies to who can constitutionally serve in those offices. As early Supreme Court Chief Justices have said, that is their role in our system of government, to interpret terms in the U.S. Constitution, when such need arises. And it surely arose in 2008 with both Obama and McCain having questions about their “natural born Citizen” status. Congress held a hearing about McCain and adopted a resolution to give him a “pass” on the term, but refused to do the same for Obama. Hmmm, wonder why. The old double standard once again. Or maybe they knew the answer and thus did not wish to go there. Or was it fear of the racism charges from the media.
See this link for my lower court filings and then the certiorari filing to SCOTUS: https://www.scribd.com/document/61221761/Kerchner-v-Obama-Congress-DOC-00-Table-of-Contents-for-2nd-Amended-Complaint
OK, I read it once through. It’s not easy to follow but then the myriad of inconsistencies on the part of the CRS brings to mind that maxim of how liars need to keep an excellent memory, and almost always fail at it. Effectively, what you are recounting of the CRS is an institutional version of the same thing recalling a rather appropriate popular source of that acronym and nom de plume polluting the Potomac. Methinks the CRS’ product a conflation of malice and stupidity, where a series of incompetents “fix” an incompetent product, and then fix that, incompetently.
One wonders if anybody of any consequence at all will pay attention. So my recommendation is to maintain a site with the correct citations, only, with links to the exact corresponding flaws among this litany of coverups. Until one is familiar with the genuine record, it is harder to follow this daisy chain of patches by which to hold its progenitors accountable, much less to assure that the facts are applied correctly at all.
I followed Mario Apuzzo through his website as well, just as I'm pretty sure he followed discussions here at the time. It was pretty lively back then.
“I do not stand here to cavil with men who are not read in the horn-books of the law; but I assert that every man born within the limits of the Republic, or under its flag at sea, of parents who were not the subjects of any other sovereignty, are, in the very words of the Constitution, natural born citizens”
John Bingham, framer of Amendment XIV that made Obama, Harris, Haley and Vivek US citizens
from the Cong. Globe, 37th, 2nd Sess., 407 (1862)
https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=058/llcg058.db&recNum=64
Enter in 407, click Turn to image, and look at the end of the first and beginning of the second column.
I guess you missed this quote from John Bingham, framer of Amendment XIV. “ ... if of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty ... “. Complete quote and source below.
“All from other lands, who, by the terms of your laws and in compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentlemen can find no exception to this statement touching natural born citizen except what is said in the Constitution in relation to [Native American] Indians.” [underline emphasis added] Source: Congressman John Bingham (R) OH the “Father of the 14th Amendment”, 1862, Congressional Globe – http://www.usnaturalborncitizen.com/bingham.html“
See this link for more: https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2024/06/14/quotable-quotes-re-citizenship-kinds-allegiance-and-the-presidential-eligibility-clause-in-the-united-states-constitution/
You’d fit right in at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) by omitting key information like they did for the facts in the Perkins v Elg (1939) U.S. Supreme Court findings and holding, like they did for the parents of the child in that case, i.e., not mentioning the both parents were naturalized citizens of the United States when their child was born in the USA and thus their child was a “natural born Citizen” of the United States, that is, a person born in the country of parents who were both citizens of the country. See section 212 of this (1758/1775/1797) legal treatise by Vattel on Principles of Natural Law: https://lonang.com/library/reference/vattel-law-of-nations/vatt-119/
Do you defend what the article by Joseph DeMaio that I posted above which started this thread, which points out, i.e., that the legislative attorney Jack Maskell of the CRS office deceived the members of Congress he was supposed to be serving?
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