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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo now that it seems that it's official that Russia meddled in the election...
Where do we go from here? This is yet again new territory.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)The worst mistake the Framers of the Constitution made was not providing a mechanism for an outside body to remove a congressman. Congress has the power to rid us of bad presidents and bad judges - but ONLY Congress can remove a bad congressman.
It's very obvious you don't want to give the president that power - if he could, the first thing a president would do is remove all the Congressmen in the other party. (Imagine the disaster that would have befallen us with no Democrats to stop Nixon!) How about a panel of four people from each state - the governor, a member of the state legislature, the chief justice of the state supreme court and the dean of a public university's law school?
Seriously though, getting rid of Comey is something Obama can do fairly easily. He should.
uponit7771
(90,302 posts)felt good
putitinD
(1,551 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I honestly don't know if impeaching trump would be any better without a reelection as the people waiting in the wings to step into the power vacuum are just as bad or worse.
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)The injustice here really makes me want to vomit. Given that HRC WON the election by 3 million & tampering occurred, then the presidency should be HERS.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Again I don't believe there is any such mechanism to invalidate the results of a whole election or give it to the other side. At best we have impeachment and rules of succession rules which don't help here. Certainly something totally new can be tried. But because those are brand new waters and the fact that Trump and his cronies would no doubt fight tooth and nail, very very very dangerous waters. Like military coup or minor civil war serious.
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)But I don't think it's right!