The answer to that is obvious, he'll be removed from office and every action he took while president will be invalidated.
Posted on 12/01/2008 6:04:32 AM PST by pissant
Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation.
According to the Constitution, a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. Mr. Obama's critics have failed to force him legally to produce his original birth certificate, and Mr. Obama has resisted any attempt to make him do so. Currently, only Hawaii Department of Health officials have access to Mr. Obama's original records.
Some of Mr. Obama's critics have said he was born in Kenya and have claimed he is a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia, or even a British subject.
Edwin Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who has practiced for 30 years and holds four degrees from Harvard, said if it were to be discovered Mr. Obama were not eligible for the presidency, it would cause many problems. They would be compounded if his ineligibility were discovered after he had been in office for a period of time.
"Let's assume he wasn't born in the U.S.," Mr. Vieira told The Bulletin. "What's the consequence? He will not be eligible. That means he cannot be elected validly. The people and the Electoral College cannot overcome this and the House of Representatives can't make him president. So what's the next step? He takes the oath of office, and assuming he's aware he's not a citizen, then it's a perjured oath."
Any appointments made by an ineligible president would have to be recalled, and their decisions would be invalidated.
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IMHO, Obama will someday be called "The Illegitimate President".
I’ve told all you people, it doesn’t matter where BO was born, the SC will not allow this to become a Constitutional crisis. They are going to find a way to gloss over it and slide it through, regardless of the truth.
And if anyone is foolish enough to think that, once he is sworn in, it will matter, nope.
You are going to see strong arm tactics that will make the Clintons look like Girl Scouts. The Justice Dept, the IRS and other federal agencies are going to be ruthlessly used to intimidate and silence political opposition. Ironically, it will be everything (and more) of what the tinfoil hat Dummies have accused Bush.
SCOTUS has to know how a bad a hit it will take if it passes on a review now only to have him turn out ineligible later.
RE “McCain would have to be declared the winner.”
This imaginary situation would not help republicans and would hurt them even more than 2006-2008 did with GWB/McCain. Fellow Freepers would be very unhappy with the effects of this.
But it wont happen, the supreme court would refuse the case not wanting to start another civil war. I can hear it now: “Mccain was ‘Selected’ not ‘elected’”, Wait, I heard this for eight years! LOL .
Just because one party’s candidate is invalidated doesn’t invalidate the whole election. The president would be chosen from the remaining candidates.
What is line 2? Looks like it says Honolulu?
They must do the right thing. How could they in good conscience swear him in without proof that he is eligible? The Supreme Court must uphold the Constitution or they are meaningless.
In a sports event, I know-different, but if one side cheats or in this case, one side would be fraudulent, the other side automatically wins. That seems sensible here as well.
The answer to that is obvious, he'll be removed from office and every action he took while president will be invalidated.
President Flim Flam.
Per Congressman Billy Bob if he were declared inelgible before the Electoral College votes Dec. 15th, the electoral college could elect anybody they want. It would probably be
Hillary or Biden, it would not be McCain as most of the electors are Dems.
If it became known he was inelgible after he were sworn in and removed (Fat chance of our Congress doing that) Biden would become President.
I am not sure what would happen if the Supreme Court declared him inelgible after the Electoral College met but before he is sworn in.
What say you Billy Bob? I hope I got this right.
And just how many millions are making reservations even now to be in DC to be witnesses of this public perjury??? It's surreal ---
Line 2 (Place of Birth) Honolulu
No, this clown will have to prove his natural born status one way or another.
No, a new election would be required. Even if we ended up with Pelosi or Hil, it is better than subverting the constitution with Osama Hussein.
Does anyone by chance know what Vieira’s PhD from Harvard is in?
Nope. Biden almost undoubtably, either directly or by vote in the House.
McCain lost. Nothing can change that, so people will just have to get over it. It's a Democratic House and Senate, and the Democrats won the election. Be it Obama or someone else, the next president will be a Democrat.
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