Category Archives: Ballot Challenge

Birther Attorney and Not a Constitutional Expert Succumbs to COVID-19

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Reality Check

We learned a few days ago that Birther attorney Mario Apuzzo had passed over the weekend from complications associated with COVID-19. Apuzzo was 65 years old and had been hospitalized with COVID and pneumonia. Apuzzo filed one of the early … Continue reading →

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Et tu, Michael?

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Reality Check

In 21 days Mike Pence will have to be the one. He will have to sit as chair of a joint session of the new Congress that counts the electoral votes to officially “kill” any hope for a second term … Continue reading →

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Let the Birther fun begin! Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Reality Check

Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee for President Joe Biden named Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate last Tuesday and within hours the Harris Birthers slithered out of the woodwork from the usual places. Birthers like Sharon … Continue reading →

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Last Birther Case Scheduled to be Executed on March 16th.

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Reality Check

H/T to Bob at the Fogbow for this one. The last active Birther case is now dead-listed at the Supreme Court and will be dismissed at conference on March 16th. Here is the docket for the case: The case is … Continue reading →

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RIP Henry Wayland Blake, aka “Hermitian”

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Reality Check

Most of you who have followed the Birthers will recall a prolific commenter who went by the handle Hermitian. He commented here, at Obama Conspiracy Theories, John Woodman’s, at NBC’s blog, and in the comments on Jerome Corsi’s Birther book … Continue reading →

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Apuzzo loses again: Vermont Supreme Court rules unanimously against Brooke Paige

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Reality Check

On Friday the Vermont Supreme Court ruled 5-0 that an appeal of a district court dismissal of case filed by H. Brooke Paige was moot because the election is over and there is nothing within the court’s power and jurisdiction … Continue reading →

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Oral Argument in Paige v State of Vermont, et. al.

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Reality Check

Thanks to a reader named William Rawle who provided an audio file of the oral arguments in Paige v State of Vermont, et. al. before the Vermont Supreme Court that were conducted on November 30, 2016. Vermont resident H. Brooke … Continue reading →

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Birther Attorney Mario Apuzzo continues to rack up the losses

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Reality Check

New Jersey attorney Mario Apuzzo who seems to have made a legal career out of losing Birther cases has continued his perfect record into the 2016 election cycle. I first chronicled Apuzzo’s record back in 2012 with an article I … Continue reading →

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Is Ted Cruz a Natural Born Citizen? Part I

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Reality Check

I am creating this topic to provide a place to continue the discussion that has now exceeded 6000 comments at Western Free Press on and article titled Ted Cruz and Natural Born Citizenship: A Belated Reply to Mario Apuzzo The … Continue reading →

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It’s a twofer at the Supreme Court

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Reality Check

Just as we predicted the latest two Birther cases to make it to the Supreme Court have been denied. This morning the court published the list of cases considered at the conference held last Thursday and both Paige v Vermont … Continue reading →

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