Posted on 07/09/2024 7:24:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It looks like Joe Biden is refusing to step down from the Democrat presidential ticket. Putting aside the legal issues and deadlines resulting from late ballot changes and the undesirability of Kamala Harris taking over, there are problems with removing Biden by force. Let’s take a look at them:
1. Removing Biden at the convention: The delegates are already pledged to Biden. This would require 300 delegate signatures and would be very messy at best, with Michelle Obama (assuming she is their savior) having to compete with other potential candidates. An alternative plan, still very messy and still subject to the aforementioned legal issues but not requiring Biden’s removal, is replacing Kamala Harris as VP on the ticket with Barack Obama, who then, with a Democrat presidential victory, becomes president effectively for a third term when Biden steps down or dies. This frightening possibility seems to hold up from a legal standpoint, assuming the late ballot change is not a barrier.
2. Biden’s cabinet transfers his presidential power to the vice president due to incapacity, invoking the 25th Amendment. This has the added benefit of hurdling barriers in states which permit a late ballot change for a live candidate only if the candidate is declared insane or mentally incompetent. I doubt Parkinson's disease would qualify, so the Democrats would have to be willing to humiliate Biden with an appropriate diagnosis. This transfer of power requires the declaration not only of the vice president but that of a majority of the cabinet members the president himself selected.
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I’ll give democrats credit for one thing......they sure as hell know how to make a mess. SMH
They may be coming to that realization.
I think Plugs Biden is going to weather the storm with the Media as I have noticed the calls for him to drop has quieted down...
> replacing Kamala Harris as VP on the ticket with Barack Obama <
Oh, come on. That move is forbidden by the 12th Amendment. I find it a bit worrisome that the author did not know that. From the 12A:
“ But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
Wow, that’s quite the bit of art! I wonder what the AI instructions were to create that.
Too bad Biden is a Democrat.
I wonder how long it would take them to oust any Republican, let alone Donald Trump.
Getting rid of the guy who won their primary to save “democracy”.
They’re even planning another “primary”, but without voters.
The Constitution prohibits anyone becoming Vice President who does not qualify to be President. Unfortunately for these a-holes at AT and their Millenialista writers, that includes the Magic Negro.
Since when have the dems let The Constitution stand in their way?
“I have noticed the calls for him to drop has quieted down”
They have?....the lapdog media was actually trying to do their job at the Whitehouse press briefing yesterday.
Jill isn’t going anywhere. She has put up with molesting, drugs, senility for years. That women isn’t going anywhere.
I don't see that as much of a problem. I mean, after all, they're Democrats. But I hope Biden sticks around.
Yep, she feels she is entitiled to million dollar trips for putting up with all the crap for decades.
That’s not entirely clear. The 22nd Amendment prohibits Obama from being ELECTED to the office of President, but does not explicitly prevent him from succeeding to the office. In fact, I recall this strategy being suggested here on Free Republic to give Trump essentially two more terms.
> Since when have the dems let The Constitution stand in their way? <
Ha! Good point. The 12A is quite clear. Barack Obama is not eligible to be VP. But the 22A is vague about the issue, and depends on your interpretation.
So the Democrats could argue that since 22 is higher than 12, the 22A applies.
(Just kidding here…maybe.)
Yes he has tamped down Congress calls to step down, noticed a number of Media types are telling him to stay the course...
No you are right she is digging in.
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