Posted on 01/19/2018 6:38:50 AM PST by mandaladon
A Harvard Law School professor and Newsweek magazine were recently mocked after uncritically suggesting a scenario in which Hillary Clinton could still become the president.
Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman professor of law and leadership at Harvard Law School, outlined a scenario in which the former senator could take the reins of power in the event of a series of impeachments of the Trump administration.
If President Trump resigns or gets impeached, Vice President Mike Pence resigns or is impeached and House Speaker Paul Ryan – who would legally become the heir to the top job – appoints Clinton as his deputy and then resigns, Clinton would become the president, the professor said.
“This is one way that it could happen,” Lessig told Newsweek magazine on Wednesday.
Hillary Clinton could still become president if Russia probe finds conspiracy evidence https://t.co/7fH8dnVS0m pic.twitter.com/F3Wqea3bYC
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 18, 2018 Lessig first envisioned this scenario in a blog post back in October.
“If Ryan became President because the Trump/Pence campaign committed treason, who should he nominate as his Vice President?” he wrote. “The answer seems unavoidable: He should nominate the person defeated by the treason of his own party, and then step aside, and let her become the President.”
The hypothetical scenario was mocked on social media, with some pointing out that the U.S. Constitution and the existing laws clearly define the line of succession – leaving no actual legal avenue for Clinton to take office, contrary to the professor’s claims.
Others have taken an issue with the magazine for pushing the theory without scrutiny.
“What's left of Newsweek is actively making people dumber and less informed and honestly should be unfollowed and shunned for this kind of behavior,” wrote Wall Street Journal journalist Byron Tau.
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Where has Hillary been lately? Any sightings? Is she free from her big black walking boot?
Can we all agree, DELUSIONAL?
William F. Buckley Jr.
A much more likely option, is Clinton becomes Trustee of her cell block.
“If President Trump resigns or gets impeached, Vice President Mike Pence resigns or is impeached and House Speaker Paul Ryan – who would legally become the heir to the top job – appoints Clinton as his deputy and then resigns, Clinton would become the president, the professor said.”
Same for Yiddish - and there’s a saying in Yiddish which, translated, says: “If your grandmother had balls, she’d be your grandfather.”
What a delusional moron this guy is...and Newsweak for publishing his insane rantings.
Hillary made one of her inane tweets after Durbin started the whole Haiti ____hole controversy.
Yeah, President of the Leavenworth Bookclub
These people really are delusional and crazy. I’m sure CNN has their psychiatrist on right now explaining these delusions, I’ll go check.
I did hear that. Hillary.....the smartest woman in the world lol. She might want to keep it zipped when Haiti is the subject.
I wondered if she’s been out in public in the last little while, and if she’s still wearing her little ankle bracelet cover boot, aka walking boot.
That's not really an either-or question. The better, more accurate question is "Just how insane and how stupid is this particular liberal?" Because all liberals, in order to ascribe to the liberal world view and idiocy must exist somewhere on the mental illness spectrum and on the stupidity or willful ignorance spectrum. There is no way a sane, rational person with better than a room temperature IQ could go along with the liberal agenda. Ergo, they all suffer from some form of delusions and/or willful disbelief of facts and common sense.
I've had friends who have gone down that path to madness and we are no-longer friends, no longer associate. My wife has called me on it - "you really want to stop being friends with xyz over politics?" I've explained to her no, it is not (just) their politics. It is the fact that if they can believe in that message, think those things are right, then that tells me there is something very, very wrong with that person. I don't want to be around them, I don't want my family or other friends I care about around them. They have serious, no-s**t issues that I don't want to be a part of. Let them go? I'm *happy* to let them go and be rid of them. I do stay in touch with a few friends and acquaintances who have liberal leanings on various issues, but no one who is what I would call a "real" liberal. They are simply too dangerous.
....Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman professor of law and leadership at Harvard Law School, outlined a scenario in which [Hillary clinton] could [become President] in the event of a series of impeachments of the Trump administration.
LOL!!!!
Yet another example of why Harvard Law School is failing!!!! PHOOEY!!!!
It would be fun if she took the same brain test that Trump took. :)
I guess this means Oprahz is out?
“I want it, I want it, I want it....”
(You can’t havie it!)
My British mother-in-law had a saying along the same line. “Balls! said the Queen. If I had two I’d be king.”
Bigfoot saw her, but nobody believes him.
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