Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Can a presidential election be undone?

Can a presidential election be undone?: "The recent publishing of previously 'lost' testimony from President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial reflects on those questions, arguing the people have a right, duty and process for removing a president who disregards the Constitution.

'The cry also is raised that to remove the president is to create a constitutional crisis by undoing an election,' wrote Rep. James E. Rogan, R-Calif., in his pre-written closing argument – which was not delivered as planned – for the impeachment trial. 'There is no constitutional crisis created when the simple process of the Constitution comes into play.'

He continued, quoting Dr. Larry Arnn of the Claremont Institute, who said, 'The people elect a president to do a constitutional job. … If the president is guilty of acts justifying impeachment, then he, not the Congress, will have overturned the election. He will have acted in ways that betray the purpose of his election. He will have acted not as a constitutional representative, but as a monarch, subversive of, or above, the law.'

Rogan's 'lost' argument is now published in his new book, 'Catching Our Flag,' a volume of his comments and detailed diary notes as a member of the 13 House managers who prosecuted Clinton's trial before the Senate."

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