Don’t Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency

[Right_in_Virginia]

Don’t Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency
RobertReich.org, Aug 24, 2018, Robert Reich

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Suppose, just suppose, Robert Mueller finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.

In other words, Trump’s presidency is not authorized under the United States Constitution.

Suppose these findings are so compelling that even Trump loyalists desert him, the Republican Party decides it has had enough, and Fox News calls for his impeachment.

What then? Impeachment isn’t enough.

Impeachment would remedy Trump’s “high crimes and misdemeanors.” But impeachment would not remedy Trump’s unconstitutional presidency because it would leave in place his vice president, White House staff and Cabinet, as well as all the executive orders he issued and all the legislation he signed, and the official record of his presidency.

The only response to an unconstitutional presidency is to annul it. Annulment would repeal all of an unconstitutional president’s appointments and executive actions, and would eliminate the official record of the presidency.  Annulment would recognize that all such appointments, actions, and records were made without constitutional authority.


More:  http://robertreich.org/post/177349093095

[skeeter]

I was wondering when the Lollipop Guild would weigh in.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I meant to add for those not inclined to visit his website:  He begins by saying we're stuck with the President until 2020 .... and then presents his "thesis" ... which I've posted. Erase all signs of President Trump AND in the process, his supporters.

The size and scope of the political earthquake we caused in 2016 continues to unfold.

[corbe]

    It's easy to declare that everyone stand up to somebody when you're 4'11".  /JS

[dfwgator]

What Reich really wants is to imprison or kill anyone who voted for Trump.

[GrouchoTex]

Suppose, just suppose, Robert Mueller finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.

Suppose, just suppose, The DoJ finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Hillary Clinton conspired with Fusion GPS to pay for the Steele dossier, and rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.

Either both would be guilty, or neither would be guilty, right?

If you're going to apply a standard, at least apply it across the board.

[dfwgator]

Suppose, just suppose, Robert Mueller finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.
 

Suppose, just suppose, that monkeys can fly out of my butt.

[Wingnut]

I was wondering when the Lollipop Guild would weigh in.

[dfwgator]

"Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye-bye!"

[INVAR]

You know, the rabid Left often impels me to consider taking up for Trump...




...but then either the rabid ForeverTrumps® or Trump himself, quickly and vociferously totally erase the thought and instead galvanize me to absolute indifference or hostile antagonism.


I'm at the place where I often say to myself - 'screw it' - all of it sucks: politics and DC and both parties needs to destroy themselves and be burnt to ash.  Politics is become like smallpox in this country.  The corruption and malfeasance is a plague, contagious and deadly infecting everything it touches and it all simply needs to be set alight and burned in order to eradicate.

[skeeter]

You know, the rabid Left often impels me to consider taking up for Trump...




...but then either the rabid ForeverTrumps® or Trump himself, quickly and vociferously totally erase the thought and instead galvanize me to absolute indifference or hostile antagonism.


I'm at the place where I often say to myself - 'screw it' - all of it sucks: politics and DC and both parties needs to destroy themselves and be burnt to ash.  Politics is become like smallpox in this country.  The corruption and malfeasance is a plague, contagious and deadly infecting everything it touches and it all simply needs to be set alight and burned in order to eradicate.

Be true to yourself Invar.

We’ll get by without you.

[INVAR]

Be true to yourself Invar.

We’ll get by without you.

Yes, you Trump fans have been saying that for the last two years.

You gots no worries from us irrelevants, but then - at the same time - somehow we are responsible for destroying Trump and his party.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

You know, the rabid Left often impels me to consider taking up for Trump...


...but then either the rabid ForeverTrumps® or Trump himself, quickly and vociferously totally erase the thought and instead galvanize me to absolute indifference or hostile antagonism.


I'm at the place where I often say to myself - 'screw it' - all of it sucks: politics and DC and both parties needs to destroy themselves and be burnt to ash.  Politics is become like smallpox in this country.  The corruption and malfeasance is a plague, contagious and deadly (, or -) infecting everything it touches (begin new sentence here) and it all simply needs to be set alight and burned in order to eradicate.

Ever heard the old saw about not drinking before you post?

Or hiring a proof reader?

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

[sneakypete]

Somebody needs to put that mannequin back in his box.

[sneakypete]

@To-Whose-Benefit?

AND......,you will still be a whiney little bitch.

[240B]

Sethi: Let the name of Moses Trump be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt America. Let the name of Moses Trump be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.



Sounds like Bob has some real pathological hate,...and a huge megalomaniacal ego.

[Frank Cannon]

Being a devote of Yacht Rock I find that meme hysterical. Top Notch.

[Wingnut]

Being a devote of Yacht Rock I find that meme hysterical. Top Notch.

Are you or did you used to be, "Hollywood Steve"? 


"They're not people. They're Jimmy Buffet fans". Was one of my favorite lines from Yacht Rock.

[Jazzhead]

Yes, you Trump fans have been saying that for the last two years.

You gots no worries from us irrelevants, but then - at the same time - somehow we are responsible for destroying Trump and his party.

You give yourself too much credit, INVAR.   Just as you say, you're irrelevant - and it's by your choice.   

[Jazzhead]

  Annulment would repeal all of an unconstitutional president’s appointments and executive actions, and would eliminate the official record of the presidency.  Annulment would recognize that all such appointments, actions, and records were made without constitutional authority.

Stalin would have been proud of you,  shortie.   

[240B]

What this represents on a deeper level is the Democrats are finally grasping the concept that even if they impeach Trump, and even if they manage to remove him from office through some miracle, nothing will change. That is what this guy is really saying. This is what he is trying to fix.

All that Trump has done will still be there. Trump's staff will still be in place. And Pence will be the new President with his own vice-President.

Finally, after all this time, the Democrats are only now starting to realize that impeaching Trump does not somehow make Hillary the President, which has been their delusional belief for the last year.

[INVAR]

You give yourself too much credit, INVAR.   Just as you say, you're irrelevant - and it's by your choice.

Yes.  Wide is the gate that leads to destruction. 

[edpc]

Suppose, just suppose, Robert Mueller finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.

The left has found their equivalent of birtherism.

[musiclady]

    It's easy to declare that everyone stand up to somebody when you're 4'11".  /JS