The problem isn’t that there aren’t many ways that this could be dealt with, it is that none of them have any interest in “skinning this cat,” which in this case means “following the explicit requirements of the Constitution, no matter what anyone else may do.”
What we’re really seeing is the final chaotic throes of a political and legal elite who have utterly abandoned constitutional republican self-government and the moral principles upon which it depends. Instead of being anchored to immovable eternal self-evident truth, they are like toy boats tossed about on the tempests of a raging sea.
The problem isn’t that there aren’t many ways that this could be dealt with, it is that none of them have any interest in “skinning this cat,” which in this case means “following the explicit requirements of the Constitution, no matter what anyone else may do.”
What we’re really seeing is the final chaotic throes of a political and legal elite who have utterly abandoned constitutional republican self-government and the moral principles upon which it depends. Instead of being anchored to immovable eternal self-evident truth, they are like toy boats tossed about on the tempests of a raging sea.
As a conservative Republican federal judge, appointed to the US District Court bench by George W. Bush after serving as a Republican state Senator from Columbus, Georgia put it:
“A spurious claim questioning the President’s constitutional legitimacy may be protected by the First Amendment. But a Court’s placement of its imprimatur upon a claim that is so lacking in factual support that it is frivolous would undoubtedly disserve the public interest.” US District Court Judge Clay R. Land, US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. “Rhodes v MacDonald” September 16, 2009