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To: OB1kNOb

Is it a true statement that should Obummer be found to be ineligible to hold the office of the President that everything he did while in office would immediately become null and void?


No it is not true. Obama has been sworn in. The only action that can remove him from office is impeachment and removal from office. Everything he signed into law or signed via Executive Order would stand as the law of the land unless reversed by the action of the new President who would succeed him, Joe Biden.


28 posted on 01/22/2009 2:02:51 PM PST by jamese777
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To: jamese777
Everything he signed into law or signed via Executive Order would stand as the law of the land

But how can it stand if he signed it into law illegally?

34 posted on 01/22/2009 2:13:51 PM PST by OB1kNOb (I for one do not welcome our new Atlas Shrugged Overlord Administration.)
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To: jamese777
No it is not true. Obama has been sworn in.

So FReaking what? A President is not crowned, he takes office on January 20th at noon, after being duly elected. Taking the oath is a requirement, that must be accomplished *before* he can exercise the powers of that office, just as being a Natural born citizen, being 35 or over, and having resided in the US for 14 years are requirements. Taking that oath doesn't unbind him from the Constitutional requirements for holding his office. What if it was found that he was only 30 years old? Or had lived in the US for only 10 years? I'm not saying those things are true, but they would invalidate his election if proved in a court. The House couldn't impeach him because He would not be, or have ever been, President, since he did not meet the Constitutional requirements to hold that office.

Presidents can be affected by Courts while in office, President Clinton was compelled to testify in court, just like any other person may be, and he was later fined $25,000, and disbarred in Arkansas, all while still in office. (Although the initial disbarment, pursuant to a "plea bargin" came the day before he left office. The original disbarrment action had been brought by a committe of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Later, in October of 2001, he was disbarred by the US Supreme Court, probably based on the disbarment in Arkansas)

57 posted on 01/22/2009 4:07:51 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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