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Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig Insists Clinton Could Still Be Installed as President
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 17, 2017 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 10/17/2017 5:22:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A Harvard Law professor posted an essay on social media recently that laid out a complicated process he believes could lead to Hillary Clinton still becoming President of the United States.

Lawrence Lessig flirted with running for president as a Democrat in 2016, but dropped out before the primaries. After Donald Trump won the election, he led a failed effort to convince the electoral college to ignore the voters' will and install Clinton.

In a Medium post last week, the professor insisted it was still possible for the eventual Democratic nominee to become president.

Lessig said the first step was proving current president Donald Trump colluded with Russian agents to win the election."If that is shown, then the first step is obvious. Trump should resign or, if he doesn’t, he should be impeached."

"The second step should be obvious as well: Pence should resign or, if he doesn’t, he should be impeached. He benefited from the criminal (and treasonous) conspiracy just as much as Trump," Lessig continued.

With Trump and Pence out of the way, the presidency would then fall to Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. But Lessig insisted it was possible Ryan would appoint Clinton his vice president and then resign.

"He should nominate the person defeated by the treason of his own party, and then step aside, and let her become the President," he argued.

"I realize this all sounds crazy right now," Lessig admitted.

However crazy it might have sounded, outlets like Newsweek treated his ideas seriously, writing a piece headlined, "How Hillary Clinton Still Can, And Should, Become President After The Trump-Russia Investigation."


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hillary; pence; ryan; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

41 posted on 10/17/2017 6:05:16 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It sounds like a liberal is plotting the overthrow of the legally elected government.


42 posted on 10/17/2017 6:06:02 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This man is at best delusional.


43 posted on 10/17/2017 6:08:28 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: smokingfrog

Catherine Zeta-Jones calls me every night begging me to be her boyfriend.

;^)


44 posted on 10/17/2017 6:08:57 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The ,Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Newsweek treated his ideas seriously, writing a piece headlined, "How Hillary Clinton Still Can, And Should, Become President After The Trump-Russia Investigation."

I think at this point, Newsweek is just trolling people.

45 posted on 10/17/2017 6:09:33 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Leaning Right

That IS crazy! If Pence really wanted to make some serious money, he’d raise alpacas in northern Chile.


46 posted on 10/17/2017 6:10:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
DE-LUSION-AL.
47 posted on 10/17/2017 6:10:54 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: smokingfrog
I'm the Scarlet Pimpernel


48 posted on 10/17/2017 6:11:02 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lawrence, that will cause hair to grow on the palms of your hands.


49 posted on 10/17/2017 6:14:13 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Delusional left wing lunatics agree. It’s her turn.


50 posted on 10/17/2017 6:14:33 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another intellectual yet idiot pretending to be giving sound advice!


51 posted on 10/17/2017 6:25:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Trump is kicking their a$$es, they, ______________, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That doesn’t just sound crazy, it IS crazy.


52 posted on 10/17/2017 6:43:25 PM PDT by VietVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy needs to stop smoking crack.


53 posted on 10/17/2017 6:44:38 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I realize this all sounds crazy right now"

Yes, Lawrence. Now and forever.

Does he mean crazy literally; is it hyperbole; or is this just a severe case of wishful thinking?

54 posted on 10/17/2017 6:50:59 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Those who want to repeat history try to prevent others from knowing it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy needs to put down the crack pipe.


55 posted on 10/17/2017 6:51:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

With Trump and Pence out of the way, the presidency would then fall to Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. But Lessig insisted it was possible Ryan would appoint COUNTrecount his vice president and then resign

There, I fixed it, I am now the President.


56 posted on 10/17/2017 6:53:39 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (If Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could only talk.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wonder why so many serious drug abusers end up as law professors in the Ivy League?


57 posted on 10/17/2017 6:58:52 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I subscribed to the Harvard Law Review for about a decade. I did it to remind myself of what a bunch of goofball morons are there: editorial staff, notes authors, published authors from elsewhere, law professors and students.

Just go to Google Scholar and read a few pages from a recent edition.

You won’t believe the garbage promoted as academic excellence there.


58 posted on 10/17/2017 6:59:26 PM PDT by anton
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“I realize this all sounds crazy right now,” Lessig admitted.”

No shit.

L


59 posted on 10/17/2017 7:01:19 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And I’m the rightful Monarch of Ireland....Jesus, I’d ask if they could get any nuttier, but they might take that as a challenge.


60 posted on 10/17/2017 7:21:57 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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