As I’ve continually said, I DO NOT AGREE that an ineligible person cannot be impeached. Impeachment is a POLITICAL process. Any elected or appointed official whether they are eligible or ineligible can be impeached for any reason. For federal officials what it takes is a majority vote in the House of Representatives to vote out a Bill of Impeachment. As I already said, one of the methods of determining ineligibility is via an impeachment trial however I never said that impeachment is the only method of removing an ineligible person.
There are lots of legal traditions under our system that I find to be, at the least bizarre and at the most, downright insane. For example, Statutes of Limitations. A person commits a crime, everybody acknowledges that they committed the crime yet if prosecution doesn’t begin within a certain time frame, they can get away with committing the crime....YUCK.
And just in case you missed it: I believe that an ineligible person who holds a federal elected or appointed office can be impeached.
Thank you for confirming a lack of intellectual integrity.
“Impeachment is a POLITICAL process”
Precisely. Conversely eligibility is a LEGAL matter. If eligibility were a political matter then there would be no set standard and Article II’s mandate would be negated, it would be an arbitrary and shifting standard.
Legal matters are the province of the Judiciary.
Carter’s opinion is political and ignores even the most basic elements of jurisprudence. The Constitution must be construed as a whole and it’s provisions read in a way that is compatible and not contradictory.
An ineligible person can not be impeached.