Posted on 07/09/2013 7:26:23 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
Holy crap, why do you keep posting irrelevant citations?? Being ineligible for office has nothing to do with an indictment or criminal prosecution. There’s no penalty for being ineligible. Now if were talking about fraud, that’s a different matter.
I think you should tell that to the folks who clamoring for criminal indictments of Obama for perjury, forgery, identity theft, document alteration, and not registering the draft, in addition to three different types of fraud. I guess you never heard of the Maricopa County Cold Case Posse’ and their attempts to get the Maricopa County Attorney to pursue a criminal grand jury investigation as a vehicle to forcing Obama out of office, either by resignation or by impeachment for high CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS.
You might want to catch up on the latest developments in the “Obama is ineligible” movement before you post nonsense and end up looking so uninformed.
What part of fraud is a different matter did you not comprehend in my previous post? We were talking about whether courts can remove ineligible persons from office. There is a precedent for this. It wouldn’t involve impeachment unless it is becomes clearer that fraud was committed, and even then, there’s a question of process since Obama was never Constitutionally legitimate.
An ineligible person is not President and can not be impeached.
Article II does not distinguish between ineligibility prior to an election or after, a person failing to meet the requirements is at all times legally disqualified.
Nothing can be added to the text, it must be taken as it is. If the Framers intended an exception they would have written one.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. U.S. Const. art. II, § 1, cl 5.
Article II commands that an ineligible person shall not be President. A person who is not President can not be impeached.
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