Posted on 11/27/2007 7:56:27 AM PST by LetsRok
I heard on the news this morning on WMAL in Washington that Hillary has NOT ruled out putting her impeached husband on the ballot as her VP.
Is this legal?? The Constitution says candidates for VP MUST be eligible to be President. Bubba is not eligible since he has served his two terms.
If she actually said that, then this ought to be spread everywhere. A clear indication of just how power mad these people are.
She's post-menopausal!
LOL...
TKhis is the smartest woman in the world. One of the top 100 lawyers in the country and lawyer extraudenaire who faliled the D.C. bar exam. Desperation sets in.
The Supreme Court would only get such a case on a suit after Hillary/Bill were chosen by more than 270 electors.
In my opinion, they would either rule that the case was non-justiceable, or would rule in favor of the election result.
How so? Cheney was a Wyoming resident, if I recall correctly.
There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent The Rapist from being elected VP, and becoming President after the accidental suicide of his wife. The Constitution does not say he is ineligible to BE President—only that he may not be ELECTED President again.
This is not disturbing, really. The 22nd Amendment is worded so as to allow a VP who succeeds to the Presidency to run for President TWICE. E.g., LBJ could have run again in 1968.
So The Rapist could have, ultimately, no more total time as President as any VP who might succeed to the Presidency. He would simply have his two terms, then a partial term, rather than the partial term first.
He could be elected VICE-President, rub out Hillary and ascend to complete her term. He just couldn't be re-elected as President... I suppose he could go on getting elected as VP indefinitely.
I'm guessing to allow Texas electors to cast their votes for Bush. I think the 12th Amendment forbids a state's electors for voting for both President and Vice President if they are both from the same state as the electors, but I don't know of any prohibition on it, do you?
“Can you imagine how quickly she would fall down a flight of stairs and then get run over by a sedan if Bill was the VP!”
Maybe then we’d get Monica for VP...
Only if the VP serves less than two years of the previous President's term.
No, it doesn’t. It makes him ineligible to be elected, not to hold the office.
The constitutional elegibility requirements are the same as they ever were.
Yes and no. If the VP assumes the office of President for greater than 2 years remaining in the elected presidents term, that VP, now President shall be limited to running for election one time.
If a President died of a heart attack 2 weeks into his first term, the VP becomes President and could only seek election to President once.
He is ineligible at least in one regard--he can't run for President. Anyhow, I find it to be a much closer case than you describe.
I don't follow your "procedural" argument, however. Why do you think that it wouldn't be triggered were he not elected?
I DO see two potential redress problems: standing and nonjusticiability. Now that the vice president is chosen rather than elected, I am having trouble seeing who would have standing to challenge WJC's vice-presidential appointment. Second, as I've noted before, this does seem like a political question.
In practical reality, it seems to me like the House of Representatives would ultimately resolve the issue. I suppose how this would happen is that the President of the Senate would disregard the votes cast for the Clinton/Clinton ticket, in which case the House of Representatives would elect the President. This surely would prompt a court challenge, but this seems like a non-justiciable question as well.
All in all, I'm sort of rooting for it to happen, just to see how everything shakes out.
It would be an interesting test case, but just following the letter of the Constitution I would say that he could run for the VP spot just the same as he could run for Rep, become speaker and be 3rd in line.
“Bill could easily register to vote and list his legal address in Arkansas.”
Didn’t they make an apartment for him on the top of that double wide here in Little Rock? He could just move in there....
I'd say Dodd or Biden myself....she doesn't need Richardson to get the "hispanic vote", and NM has no electoral votes.......and Edwards has been a bit too much of a bitch towards her.
Cheney was on the ballot from Wyoming.
Heck - all he needs is a waterbed and a hot plate.
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