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To: devattel

This filing is excellent. If for no other reason, the courts must investigate this identity fraud perpetrated by the usurping “president”.


And it occured before he became POTUS, therefore he can be prosecuted as any other citizen.


41 posted on 02/27/2011 12:45:55 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Hotlanta Mike said:

And it occurred before he became POTUS, therefore he can be prosecuted as any other citizen.

Any president can be prosecuted like any other citizen for crimes defined in the judicial system.

Impeachment is a special form of punishing "misbehavior" by way of committing "high crimes and misdemeanors". Jefferson was quite clear on the definition he helped craft in the Constitution:

"There is another opinion entertained by some men of such judgment and information as to lessen my confidence in my own. That is, that the Legislature alone is the exclusive expounder of the sense of the Constitution in every part of it whatever. And they allege in its support that this branch has authority to impeach and punish a member of either of the others acting contrary to its declaration of the sense of the Constitution."

--Thomas Jefferson to W. H. Torrance, 1815. ME 14:305
Jefferson clarifies the term "high crimes" to mean the highest law of the land, the Constitution.

In the event the judicial system prosecutes and imprisons a president, the 20th Amendment is used and Congress has the power to implement the process of succession. He is a citizen like everyone else, and is bound to the laws. If not, then he would be a king, something the founders declared unconstitutional.
45 posted on 02/27/2011 1:03:20 PM PST by devattel
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