But that is presuming that the President and Vice President were duly elected, and are merely being removed for “high crimes and misdemeanors” they committed after assuming office. The current situation is entirely different. They were elected fraudulently, which is no election at all. And Trump is not the second-place finisher, he’s the actual winner.
And yeah, I’ve heard all of the blather about how the electors have already met and voted, therefore even if fraud occurred, so the argument goes, the election is over. But that argument again neglects one key distinction: The slates of electors themselves were fraudulently sent to the Electoral College, therefore the electors sent had no rightful authority to choose the President. You have to rewind the whole thing to the point where the electors were sent by the states, replace the fraudulent slates with the slates that were truly chosen by the People, and let them vote (and this would not be a “re-vote”, but would be the first and only vote allowed by the Constitution, as the previous “vote” was fraudulent, and therefore not a Constitutionally-valid vote of the Electoral College).
That’s the logical argument. Of course, I well know that our present government is so deeply corrupt that this is highly unlikely to happen, but it is what should happen. Our nation’s founders, who wrote the Constitution, would NEVER have allowed such an abomination as this stolen election to stand. They NEVER would have, as some even here do, just shrugged and said, “Oh well, there’s no remedy because the Electoral College has spoken.”
I’d like to see the line in the Constitution that says, “in the event of a fraudulent election, here’s what we do: we give the office to the runner-up”.
That line isn’t in there.
But the Second Amendment is. And that’s why the Second Amendment is there. The problem with Jan 6 was that only the Capitol Police were armed. We’re not voting our way out of this.