[David]

There is an absolute bar to impeachment of Barry.

Eligibility to hold a political office is unlike procedural errors in the conduct and certification of an election. General procedural errors are merged in the certified result--ineligibility to hold the office is a bar to action in the office.

The actions in office of an individual who moves into the office who is not eligible to hold the office are void--he doesn't hold the office.

Same for impeachment. He doesn't hold the office, therefore he cannot be impeached.

He was born outside the United States under circumstances which did not result in his citizenship at birth. Therefore, whatever the Court might hold Natural Born Citizenship might mean, Barry doesn't have it because he was not a citizen at all.

Therefore ineligible; therefore impeachment barred.

The correct procedure for eviction? Convene a joint session of Congress; reopen the Certification proceedings for the 2008 and 2012 elections; appoint a joint Judiciary Committee of the House and Senate to report back to the Joint Session on Barry's eligibility at a date certain; report that he was not eligible; and reverse the certificate of his election under the twentieth amendment.

[LucyT]

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"There is an absolute bar to impeachment of Barry. Eligibility to hold a political office is unlike procedural errors in the conduct and certification of an election. General procedural errors are merged in the certified result--ineligibility to hold the office is a bar to action in the office.

"The actions in office of an individual who moves into the office who is not eligible to hold the office are void--he doesn't hold the office.

"Same for impeachment. He doesn't hold the office, therefore he cannot be impeached.

"He was born outside the United States under circumstances which did not result in his citizenship at birth. Therefore, whatever the Court might hold Natural Born Citizenship might mean, Barry doesn't have it because he was not a citizen at all.

"Therefore ineligible; therefore impeachment barred.

"The correct procedure for eviction? Convene a joint session of Congress; reopen the Certification proceedings for the 2008 and 2012 elections; appoint a joint Judiciary Committee of the House and Senate to report back to the Joint Session on Barry's eligibility at a date certain; report that he was not eligible; and reverse the certificate of his election under the twentieth amendment."

Thanks, David.

[null and void]

Interesting take, David.

If congress accepted impeachment proceedings, would that be tantamount to declaring he is legally president?

Constitutional Eligibility

[rolling_stone]

high crimes and misdemeanors.....

[Plummz]

Sounds good to me.

[woofie]

I am beginning to think impeachment will never happen as it is a political process and Republicans would not want to make the First Black President a martyr. Also it will take a while for it to gin up and there will be little time left in Obama’s presidency.

However if things are bad enough ...some Dems might push him out the door.
Also I wonder if any real BC controversy should be used to strip powers away from Obama so that he cannot act unilaterally.

[onedoug]

That would require way too much work on the part of Congress.

Like the “conservatives” who took the House in 2012, I wouldn’t look for very much to happen should they take the Senate now. That way, should they actually affect by some miniscule chance something positive...anything at all, it would by then, have to come as a rather pleasant surprise, which would only demonstrate how desperate we really are.