The Constitutions remedy: a bucket brigade The GOP leaders are likely to get away with this dereliction of their duty to the Constitution because most Americans have never taken the time to think through the electoral significance of the constitutional process for impeachment and removal. They dont realize that every two years, Americans who vote in the general election have the chance to cast a vote of no-confidence in the National Administration, including all the civil officers in each branch of government. A sufficiently strong political movement, clearly focused on achieving a congressional majority to impeach and remove the offenders, could throw them out, like a janitor pouring out a bucket of dirty suds. And starting at the top, they could replace them with people ready to clean up the governments act. Lets say that when the smoke clears after the 2014 election, candidates who have pledged to initiate impeachment in Congress have been elected in sufficient numbers. Lets call them the bucket brigade for short. As the Congress organizes itself for action, the first step of the bucket brigade would be to elect, as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the person they believe best suited to take over the Office of President of the United States. This could be any qualified person in the U.S., since the Speaker does not have to be a member of the House. The bucket brigades second step would be to initiate impeachment against the President of the United States, as well as the Vice President. Should the process ultimately result in the removal of both the President and the Vice President, the Speaker of the House then assumes the Presidency. The bucket brigade might then proceed to remove all the civil officers implicated in the Presidents malfeasance. However, assuming that the new President asks for and receives the resignations of all current presidential appointees, this step would be unnecessary in most cases. In this way, the vote of no confidence achieved at the polls in the congressional elections would translate into a complete change in the national administration, including recalcitrant members of the Judiciary, if the need be.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:25:01 +0000
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