Posted on 09/19/2009 9:56:00 PM PDT by pissant
If there are constitutional requirements, then they must be met. If they must be met, then the applicant (candidate) must do so upon request.
You are making things up. There is no requirement that a sitting President provide documentation of his eligibility "upon request".
The process of choosing the President happens *prior* to swearing in. It was followed. He met all the requirements asked of him, and there is still no proof that somehow he isn't eligible.
He wasn't an "applicant", but if you want to use that analogy then the voters are the ones doing the hiring, and they've already spoken. He is no longer an "applicant". He has the job.
The issue was raised and the lawsuits were filed well before Jan 20th. But you know that.
PS. Voters having “hired” the candidate didn’t work out so well for some others who were removed from office for false ‘applications’.
Because rules of employment are a bit different than the requirements to remove someone from the presidency.
True. Most rules of employment are not the supreme law of the land.
And where, specifically, does the Constitution give the judicial branch the power to vet presidential candidates?
It’s not the “judicial branch” vetting. It is the people. The judiciary is the vehicle.
Try this little number out.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”.
Now if just one of those states had bothered to check....
Never forget that confusion breeds opportunity. If Obewan were taken for ineligibility there would be chaos. The commie bastards would not be able to accomplish anything for the rest of the term. Hell, it may take several years to figure out if any policies implemented or bills Obama signed would be consitutional.
This would be break conservatives need to organize and get back in control. And I am not talking about Republicans. I mean conservatives.
It is likely so many would be pissed off about the communist lies that democrats could be buried for years.
LOL. So the judiciary represents the people?
That's a good one.
I'm sure the trial lawyers would love that interpretation of the Constitution! Pity that it is nowhere to be found in the writings of the framers...
Did I say the judiciary “is the people”?
And are all courts federal and covered by the federal constitution?
And please tell me where it is enumerated - because if it isn’t it falls to the states and the people - for the feds to be responsible for vetting the qualifications?
Guess what spanky, they aren’t. So the people and the states, using the courts (state or federal) are perfectly obliged to force the issue.
I fully agree with you on the last sentence!
There is absolutely NO question about cigar Billy was and is a NBC!!
However regarding the first sentence the undeniable facts are the present renter and usurper in the W.H., an illegal alien is NOT a NBC and then NOT eligible to be C-i-C!!!
Wow, how inglorious for him to have his posts yanked as well.
Maybe the other trolls will take notice.
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