Obama has one ace in his sleeve for this: he was duly elected, and he can say that it’s not HIS fault he wasn’t verified — that it’s Pelosi’s fault, because she ultimately OK’ed his eligibility. This is a case that could be argued on Obama’s side, preventing him from any impeachment. He never swore he was eligible, did he?
He would not be able to run again unless he proves eligibility, though.
I would say he swore to that when he took the oath of office on January 20, 2009.
Of course, there were some shenanigans surrounding that as well, weren’t there?
>Obama has one ace in his sleeve for this: he was duly elected, and he can say that it’s not HIS fault he wasn’t verified — that it’s Pelosi’s fault, because she ultimately OK’ed his eligibility.
>This is a case that could be argued on Obama’s side, preventing him from any impeachment. He never swore he was eligible, did he?
Not quite; here’s the oath of office for President:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
The continuance of [knowingly] acting as President, though Constitutionally ineligible, would NOT be preserving the Constitution; in fact, given the high esteem of “precedence” in our judiciary, it can be argued that it is the active destruction of the Constitution by invalidating it’s requirement of Natural Born Citizen without any valid amendment.