Posted on 06/21/2007 3:56:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The make-believe presidential ticket of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is gaining some attention.
"There would be a fight to see who would be the presidential candidate and who would be the vice presidential candidate," Bloomberg quipped during a trip to California this week. "He would want to arm wrestle for the top spot; I would want to check the Constitution."
Most know the Constitution says a president must be a natural born citizen.
"It doesn't say anything about the vice president, but the 12th amendment to the constitution ratified in 1804 specifies that vice presidents have to meet the same constitutional requirements," said Jennifer Chacon, professor of constitutional law at UC Davis.
The Constitution states: "No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United States."
Chacon says the law is clear. But, it's not 100 percent clear that courts would challenge or enforce it rather that leave it to the political process. The only sure bet is a constitutional amendment.
Amendment or not, Sacramento based political consultant Gary Dietrich said he doesn't see a Vice President Schwarzenegger in our future.
"I almost think v.p. would be a step down for this guy. He's already said he's the governor of a nation state. He's been on trade missions to Canada. Why would he want to be v.p.?" said Dietrich.
He thinks a secretary of state appointment is more up Arnold's alley.
"I think we're talking an international role he's already carving out. He's talking with Tony Blair again and I think that's what we are talking about. I don't think he'll be sitting on the Hill waiting to see what happens in the Oval. That's not Arnold's cup of tea."
So bottom line -- no one has ever challenged the amendment. Governor Schwarzenegger said right now he is focused on his next three and a half years serving California. But he's not ruling anything out. He has always said he doesn't know what will happen next.
LOL! I feel the same way.
You've never wanted to check it before, Mike.
Oh, okay, I'll help you. Start at the Second Amendment and read your way down. Slowly.
Affirmative Action is alive and well. She sounds like a two-fer (female minority).
YES....politics is becoming idiotic....
A VP has to be a born U.S citizen. Not naturalized.
Cool! Their slogan can be Dumb and Dumber!
Can’t happen.
Section. 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section. 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
OhMyFreakin'GoodGrief ... how does this woman manage to get dressed in the morning? Wait, too difficult -- how does she manage to breathe??
THERE ALREADY IS AN AMENDMENT TO TAKE CARE OF THIS NONSENSE!
*(obscure film reference) /grin
Somebody post the NTSA graphic.
Arnold cannot be VP. End of story.
He is Constitutionally ineligible to be elected president, therefore he is ineligible to serve as vice-president.
“I need to find a new hobby, politics is killing me”.
I think the dumbocraps would be hurt the most. Both states are heavily dumbocrap, and these two would siphon off left wing voters. go for it.
Jennifer Chacón was awarded her J.D. from Yale Law School. After graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sidney R. Thomas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. From 1999-2003, she was an attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Immigration Law.
http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/2007symposium/bios/chacon.html
Grew up in the 9th Circus......that explains it
Please make this a joke. Argh.
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