Amongst the hue and cry that the Constitution be followed, the 12th Amendment is conveniently forgotten. It says:
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.
The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed
Note that it does not say, “unless certain members of Free Republic think that the candidate be ineligible.” The time to make that challenge passed when the Electoral College cast their votes “Shall be President” is what the Constitution says and the Constitution is what we must respect. If it turns out that Mr. Obama was not elibible for that office, then he can and should be removed by a return of Articles of Impeachment, trial by the Senate, and conviction. Its the only way that it can be done. Lakin plays no role in that drama.
Uh huh, and the Constitution also requires that the POTUS be a Natural Born Citizen vs just Citizen for all other positions.....can you kindly explain what the difference is between a NBC vs Citizen?
Suppose we have a corrupt Congress....lol....what would stop them from certifying Putin or bin lyin's kid?
The rules to have the votes counted were not followed. Dick Cheney was required to ask for objections; he didn’t do it. The process to count the votes and certify the winner of the electoral vote was illegal.
AND even if it had been done legally, the 20th Amendment says that if a President-elect (presumably one certified as the electoral winner, since the electoral vote is the only vote the Constitution even recognizes)”fails to qualify” by Jan 20th, the VP elect is to “act as President until a President shall have qualified”.
So the issue before the entire US military right now is whether Obama is Constitutionally allowed to act as CINC, or whether Joe Biden is.
When you consider that no electoral winner has been legally certified (meeting the legal requirements), the answer should be neither. We don’t have a CINC.
Sure he does, junior. Anyone can dispute such things in our Republic, by the operation of the courts.
Right now, a completely legitimate law of the State of Arizona, passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor is in abeyance due to the assertions of people who have nothing to do with it (the ACLU) and no injury to claim from it, much less being compelled to go into a combat zone due to world class Fraud.
All they did was file a lawsuit. Say whatcha want, they got a federal judge to agree with them.
So far, that's about the only defect I can see for Lt. Col. Lakin.