Posted on 02/14/2012 12:51:08 PM PST by Kukai
I don’t want to split hairs, or start yet another fight on this forum, but I think the hypothetical issue still stands - what if Congress makes a demonstrably wrong determination? Is there a remedy?
Let’s take an easier case: What if somehow a candidate is only 34 years old, or not a resident for 14 years, or not even a citizen at birth, but the congress certifies the election anyway? What would the remedy be? Who could claim injury? And what if there were a more reasonable scenario - an undisputed ineligibility were not discovered until after the inauguration, and the Congress did nothing about it. What would the remedy be? And would resort to the courts to deal with this cause more damage to our system of government than would the Congress’s refusal to act?
I guess what I am saying is that I can respect the argument that Congress looked at this issue and has resolved it. But I would have trouble with an argument that Congress’s decision on this is always final, regardless of the facts. Which is probably not what you said at all!
I think my examples could rightly be called ridiculous. But some of the things that are actually happening in this country right now would, just 15 or 20 years ago, have been deemed an impossible nightmare scenario that we would never have to face. So I ask, what’s next? Yesterday’s product of an overactive imagination is today’s headline. I shudder to think.
Most of all, I wish just a tenth of the energy and intellect spent by people to respond to each other on this issue on FR could be turned loose to help conservatives win against Obama. I suppose we can do both at once, though.
Again, no offense meant. Thanks to any and all for any flames or repsonses in advance.
If I had $10,000 like Mitt Romney does, I would bet anyone that the Republicans will nominate one of these men for vice president in 2012, because they seem to want the issue to go away as badly as Obama does.
Sad, but true.
When I said “one of these men” I meant of course, Rubio or Jindal.
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