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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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To: ReignOfError

keep in mind, i see the role for the SCOTUS to be to declare him as ineligible... THEN the impeachment hearings would have to happen.

as for just re-signing the laws... considering the laws were pushed by a pretender, or worse, i’m not sure that would go as smoothly as just re-signing

no matter how it goes, it’d be a massive mess the likes of which the country has never seen... which might be one of their contingency plans.


110 posted on 03/26/2010 7:53:19 AM PDT by sten
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