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To: ReignOfError

the ejection would be through impeachment by both the house and the senate, of course.

once ejected... then the recovery... which would include retracting any bills supposedly signed into law... but since the person that signed the bills into law was not eligible to perform the task, as only the president can do it, than the law would have to be retracted.

this would be the start of a Constitutional crisis


104 posted on 03/25/2010 9:27:56 PM PDT by sten
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To: sten
the ejection would be through impeachment by both the house and the senate, of course.

Okay. Thanks for clarifying. A surprising number of people think that SCOTUS could simply declare BHO ineligible.

once ejected... then the recovery... which would include retracting any bills supposedly signed into law... but since the person that signed the bills into law was not eligible to perform the task, as only the president can do it, than the law would have to be retracted.

this would be the start of a Constitutional crisis

The only means in the Constitution to "retract" those laws is for Congress to repeal them and the new president to sign them. If SCOTUS declared all the laws passed in the last year + to be invalid, that would indeed create a constitutional crisis; but I don't see any conceivable way the court would take that step.

108 posted on 03/26/2010 7:03:20 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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