What would happen if Obama gets sworn in, and a year later there is proof beyond a doubt that he is constitutionally ineligible to be POTUS?
I can’t believe that I even ask that question. In any normal situation this should never have been brought up. What is so incredible is that no one in government is even curious about Obama’s identity.
To me it is proof that government is no longer on the side of the American people and that it has taken a path incompatible with their welfare.
I have all kinds of pro and con thoughts on the issue. One is that the elections poges that verify such stuff have done so properly and they are just stringing us out orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr as you state , they don’t give a rats ass what we think or do anymore and fear the violent city burning race cards versus the quiet no protest conservatives that sit and bitch more than they act.
They keep pushing us wabbits into the corner with no way out they will wish all they had was “just” a LA style riot !
Just my opinion of course.......:o)
They either know who he is and from whence he came or they do not know who he is and don’t care to know any personal history.
Quite frankly, they simply just don’t give a damn about his identity.
We see him as a BOGUS POTUS.
Government views him as a player of their machine that has become beholden to foreign UNAMERICAN interests.
The ignoramuses that chose him over a well-seasoned Senator and the ‘war-hero’ view this man as a hip dancing American Idol that babbles about Change and promises a hand out.
Many of them want pure Socialism & could care less about America.
America’s welfare is NOT their consideration.
All Hell Breaks Loose?
Seriously, no one knows. Some say the Supreme Court can't touch him once he's "seated". They maintain Congress would have to impeach and "convict" him to remove him from office, and that's not likely given the makeup of the next Congress.
I disagree, if they rule he's not eligible, then he would never even have been President, rather than just ceasing to be President" since he wasn't eligible to the office.
Meanwhile, if he was ineligible, and thus not President, every law he signed, every executive order he penned, and every appointment he made would be subject to legal challenge by anyone affected by the law, order or appointment (and by the actions of those appointees!). It would be one smell of a hess, a real legal nightmare.
You said — “What would happen if Obama gets sworn in, and a year later there is proof beyond a doubt that he is constitutionally ineligible to be POTUS?”
It’s kinda hard to think that there would be proof “beyond a doubt” — because that kind of proof would have to be certified in a court of law. Otherwise, it’s simply “some document” and “some people’s word” about it. With a court of law certifying that something is true (i.e., this supposed “proof beyond a doubt) — then it could be said to be so.
However, I see that courts would defer to Congress in *even* taking such a case in terms of a sitting President’s qualifications for office — because, according to the Constitution, only Congress (through Impeachment and Trial) can remove a sitting President. Thus, a “remedy” sought by a court — by which one would bring this “proof” to — could not be done by the court.
And Congress does have the authority to investigate and appoint a Special Prosecutor to see if a crime has been committed — by a sitting President. We’ve already got the examples of that in our recent history.
Thus, it’s Congress’ responsibility to *prove* and to *remove* from office...
[But, I don’t hold out hope for Congress to do it, considering what happened with Clinton...]