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No—Congress did not pass a statute that strips naturalized Americans or dual citizens from federal office or force mass resignations; reporting and fact-checkers show viral claims about a “Born in Ame...
The U.S. Constitution requires that Representatives be U.S. citizens for at least seven years and Senators for at least nine years before taking office, so current law bars someone who is not a U.S. c...
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the sole power to declare war, while the president is commander-in-chief and retains some authority to use force—especially for limited defensive actions or short-...
The U.S. Constitution never expressly barred Muslims from holding federal office; and was adopted to prevent exactly that kind of exclusion . Historical records show debates in the 1780s acknowledged ...
The Constitution and federal employment rules set different rules: the U.S. Constitution prescribes citizenship or age/residency requirements for federal elected offices, while federal agencies genera...
Donald Trump does receive the statutory presidential salary of , but publicly stated he has been donating his quarterly paychecks to government entities and charities rather than keeping them for pers...
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) requires service members to obey lawful orders but also recognizes a duty to disobey “patently illegal” commands — those that clearly direct the commission ...
If a sitting U.S. president were medically diagnosed with dementia, the U.S. Constitution and federal practice point to two legal routes: voluntary transfer of power (resignation or delegation under t...
Zohran Mamdani refusing to swear an oath on the U.S. Constitution is : one news item alleges he declined the Constitution and offered an alternative local document, but multiple contemporaneous report...
Federal immigration agents are legally permitted to use non‑lethal “riot control” weapons, including chemical irritants commonly called tear gas, under Department of Homeland Security and ICE use‑of‑f...
A president can be impeached by the House and tried and removed by the Senate during a midterm election year; the U.S. Constitution places on impeachment proceedings, and historical practice confirms ...
The U.S. Constitution vests the power to "declare war" exclusively in Congress, while the President serves as commander in chief — a division that leaves room for dispute about who can start hostiliti...
No single, new federal law was passed that bars all people not born in the United States from holding government office; the Constitution already imposes a specific “natural‑born citizen” requirement ...
California will have , one from each of the state’s 52 congressional districts, with the general election on November 3, 2026 and a primary scheduled for June 2, 2026. Multiple public election overvie...
Dual citizenship is legally permitted in the United States: the State Department says U.S. citizens may naturalize abroad without automatically losing U.S. citizenship , and multiple sources state tha...
Georgia must follow the U.S. Constitution and federal practice that House vacancies are filled by election; the state governor issues a writ to call a special election and Georgia law and precedent se...
The Constitution does not explicitly say whether a sitting president can be criminally arrested or prosecuted; the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has long argued that indictment...
The claim that the New York State Assembly formally responded to or intervened in Zohran Mamdani’s reported oath ceremony is unsupported; . Multiple analyses identify the viral story as either uncorro...
Donald Trump has publicly teased running for a “third term,” but the U.S. Constitution’s 22nd Amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice; legal scholars and major outlets asses...
The U.S. Constitution’s Due Process Clauses have long been interpreted to protect “persons,” not just citizens, which means noncitizens — including many undocumented immigrants who are physically pres...