Posted on 03/04/2009 12:53:39 PM PST by BBell
New Orleans ministers say Louisiana Attorney General has ruled that state law does not allow recall of federal officials
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The New Orleans ministers who launched a recall effort against 2nd District Congressman Joseph Cao last month say they've now been told by Louisiana's Attorney General that state law does not allow the recall of federal officials.
The advisory opinion had been sought by Secretary of State Jay Dardenne who presides over elections.
The campaign was launched after the newly elected Congressman who succeeded Bill Jefferson, voted twice with his fellow Republicans in the House against an economic stimulus proposal.
Cao says he voted against the proposal because it would mean little to his district. The White House later conceded that the proposal would produce fewer jobs in the 2nd District than in any other congressional district in the nation.
Toris Young, president of the Louisiana Ministerial Alliance of Churches for All People, said "At a time when this nation suffers under the yoke of economic recession, our leaders must be more sensitive to the needs of all people."
Organizers will now appeal to the federal courts with the hope that the U.S. Supreme Court "will eventually decide whether the United States Constitution, which is silent on the issue of recall of elected officials, will be intepreted to allow citizens and states to exercise a fundamental right to pursue recall under reasonable circumstances."
I don’t see these “ministers” getting any traction at all in the 5th Circuit. Oh crap, Judge hunting, that means the 9th Circuit, yep it will go to the Supreme Court.
I guess they mean the congressman should be stuffing bribe money in his freezer like his predecessor did. That's all I can come up with that makes any sense from the statement.
These provisions of the United States Constitution, with respect to federal officials, have supremacy over State laws and provisions, and State laws in conflict with such constitutional provisions have been found by the courts in the past to be invalid.
The United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorize the recall of United States officers such as Senators, Representatives, or the President or Vice President, and thus no Member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States.
Although the Supreme Court has not needed to directly address the subject of recall of Members of Congress, other Supreme Court decisions, as well as the weight of other judicial and administrative decisions, rulings and opinions, indicate that the right to remove a Member of Congress before the expiration of his or her constitutionally established term of office is one which resides exclusively in each House of Congress as established in the expulsion clause of the United States Constitution.
since when has the 9th Circuit Court ever cared what the Constitution says. It is the most overturned court in the country.
And the 9th Circus does not have jurisdiction in Louisiana...
This case is going nowhere. First of all, the 9th Circuit doesn’t cover that area.
Second, they are just starting the 2010 campaign early. The real offense is that Cao is a Republican of Vietnamese ancestry. Guess which ethnic group and party affiliation they believe should hold that district in perpetuity.
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