OBAMA WILL VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION IF HE APPOINTS HILLARY SECRETARY OF STATE

Oil for Immigration, The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 11/25/2008

[sportsone234]

[...]You heard it for yourself in the video. Hillary has a problem being named to the post of Secretary of State because of that pesky old Constitution, you know, the document that is supposed to make us a people and a nation of laws . . . what a quaint concept!

According to Michael Stokes Paulson, a Law Professor who has written on the application of the Emoluments Clause in the past, he says this regarding the Clinton appointment:

[unixfox]

They forgot one thing. Socialiasts/Marxists/Democrats don't care about the Constitution.

They only piss on it!

[Red Steel]

So who do we sue and who has standing?

[Tanniker Smith]

Didn't watch the video but scanned the article.

So basically, if they lower the salary back to where it was before, then everything is hunky-dory?

[steelyourfaith]

The Constitution provides no controlling legal authority. /s

[smokingfrog]

sweet!

[no dems]

Combine this with the Birth Certificate drama and the plot thickens......

[maclay]

Interesting premise, but these days, the Constitution, sadly, is treated more like an obstacle than a proclamation of liberty.

[2harddrive]

The Black Robes of the Federation have previously stated that US CIIZENS have no standing! Let us hope the Electors do!

[ChetNavVet]

Video would not play,

well, shoot, judges will not hear, nor comply, I swear I just know our favorite site will go down again any second now. BHO the president for the 52%ers, not mine, and not most folk either.

[earlJam]

The Emoluments Clause of Article I, section 6 provides “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time.” As I understand it, President Bush’s executive order from earlier this year “increased” the “Emoluments” (salary) of the office of Secretary of State. Last I checked, Hillary Clinton was an elected Senator from New York at the time.

[Eddie01]

What’s the /s for?

[steelyourfaith]

closes a virtual sarcasm tag

[TLI]

REFERENCE PING

[Eddie01]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

[4rcane]

can’t hillary just resign from senator before the appointment

[loboinok]

They forgot one thing. Socialiasts/Marxists/Democrats don't care about the Constitution.

They no longer even attempt to hide it.

Penn. Democrat: ‘Who Really Cares’ About the Constitution?

[anniegetyourgun]

They’ll figure out a way around it.

[Eddie01]

When courts so appointed to uphold the Constitution outright ignore those duties and enter into legislative fiat, no wink or nod is appropriate; no sarcasm possible.

[Eddie01]

sure.

I guess that just leaves the natural born citizen question.

or the relevance of the 14th amendment when algore together with the florida supreme court attempted to change election law after the vote in an attempt to steal the election.

or McCain_Feingold’s trampling of the first ammendment.

Take your pick.

(or Roe v Wade, just figured this was too obvious)