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To: Tau Food

“The voters and their electors decide who is and who is not eligible.”

SCOTUS is “evading” any challenge the “political question” that has been decided by the voters and electors as you state. IMO, that doesn’t mean that a challenge could not in the future punch through the SCOTUS “evasion.”

For example, what if it is proved in federal court or in a House investigation that Barry engaged in a criminal conspiracy to hide a Kenyan birth and forge an HI BC and that state officials and jurists in HI as well as DNC officials including Nancy Pelosi all participated in the conspiracy, then impeachment or resignation would follow.

Voters and electors would have based their votes and election on false pretenses of an assumed US birth and federal courts could very well regard criminal penalties to be available against a sitting president up to removal from office for having never actually been eligible to serve.

Bill Clinton was deemed by federal courts as subject to civil litigation and remedies for civil torts against Paula Jones and only the statute of limitations prevented criminal charges from being brought against Clinton. Remember that Agnew was forced to resign due to crimes committed before taking office.

While only impeachment might be ultimately available to remove Barry if found guilty of criminally conspiring to hide a Kenyan birth, a conviction and imposition of numerous remedies short of removal would available and would inevitably provoke a resignation under threat of impeachment, IMO.


334 posted on 03/09/2013 11:07:32 AM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: Seizethecarp
Yes, once a person becomes president, he can only be removed by impeachment. The House has the "sole" power of impeachment and only the Senate has to power to rule on an impeachment. The courts cannot remove sitting presidents, although there appears to be a significant number of people who want to grant courts that power.

Impeachment and removal by court is just not what the Founders had in mind.

350 posted on 03/09/2013 11:41:41 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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