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Henry Lee Harper's avatar

The interpretation about Article II, section 4 that claims the entire cabinet would be removed is not unfounded and actually does comport with the Reactionary Roberts Court's interpretation of The Executive Branch and Unitary Executive Theory. If what ol' what's his name that Roberts cites in Slaughter is what we must go with now and the President is both fully omniscient over the entire executive branch as well as fully responsible for it, then the text of the impeachment and removal section would, to my mind, work as a remedy to remove the entire corrupt cabinet that Trump has installed, should he be impeached and removed.

The first sentence of Article II states, "The executive Power shall be vested in The President Of The United States Of America."

It is that statement alone from which Roberts et. al. derive their "Unitary Executive Theory."

The last statement in Article II states,

"The President, Vice President and all civil Offficers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

I am not familiar with the Congressional statute or statutes that lay out the Impeachment process, but according to the plain text of the Constitution plus the reactionary SCOTUS interpretation of executive power, if Trump goes down, they're all going with him.

Jeff Biss's avatar

The fundamental fact is that this SCOTUS is illegitimate. It has refused to follow the constitution and should hang for it along with Trump and the entire GOP.

David A Henry's avatar

Thank you for sharing your vision HCR.

Shuppie's avatar

We need to elect rational minds in the mid-terms so we can impeach Trump, Vance, Johnson, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh and Roberts. Plenty of dirt on all of them.

Susan De Vos's avatar

coffee with the contrarians

Jeff Biss's avatar

Regarding impeachment of those conservative judges who have refused to adhere to the constitution, that is all that is necessary, they have refused to adhere to the constitution. Corruption is a cherry on the cake. They should hang for their high crimes.

Eliza Kauder's avatar

It is time for us to start regularly donating to the Obama Foundation!!

Civik USA's avatar

The SAVE system's false positive rate is significant. When states voluntarily submitted voter rolls and the federal government ran them through that immigration-benefits verification system, at least 14 percent of flagged individuals were in fact eligible voters. That figure comes before accounting for the added burden of producing a birth certificate or passport whose name matches current legal identity — a requirement that falls disproportionately on women who have changed their names through marriage or divorce, a population that numbers in the tens of millions.

A system that generates errors at that rate, applied to voter registration, does not simply inconvenience the wrongly flagged; it removes them from the rolls until they complete a correction process whose cost and complexity are themselves unevenly distributed. The representation question buried in all of this is straightforward: if the population a law binds is systematically less able to participate in choosing who makes the law, the downstream problem is not just administrative.