If Bush/Cheney were impeached and convicted in the Senate,
madinmaryland
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Fri Jul-20-07 02:30 PM
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If Bush/Cheney were impeached and convicted in the Senate,
How would it be enforced? Would they be kicked out and who would do it? Would they try and fight it all the way to the Supreme Court? Would they just ignore it or just use an executive order to ignore it? :shrug:
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Fri Jul-20-07 02:32 PM
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1. I think they'd declare an emergency and
martial law, disband the congress and SCOTUS, decalre the constitution null and void I think they are going to do that anyway
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Fri Jul-20-07 02:33 PM
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there's no judicial remedy to impeachment. They'd leave.
madinmaryland
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Fri Jul-20-07 02:56 PM
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4. What if they decided not to leave, who would force them out?
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Fri Jul-20-07 03:30 PM
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you really think he's gonna barricade himself in the White House? It doesn't matter though, because the chances of Bush and Cheney both being removed via impeachment is nil.
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Fri Jul-20-07 04:19 PM
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11. The only reason I pose this hypothetical
is that we continue to see things that we never thought could ever happen, and yet they continue to. Maybe I have a little too much MIHOP/LIHOP or tin foil hat going, but I just don't trust these fuckers.
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Fri Jul-20-07 02:33 PM
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Edited on Fri Jul-20-07 02:33 PM by pocoloco
madinmaryland
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Fri Jul-20-07 02:57 PM
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5. Unfortunately, it was taken off the table.
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Fri Jul-20-07 03:08 PM
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6. There is no appeal of impeachment.
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Fri Jul-20-07 03:25 PM
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8. Since they have spent the last six years shredding the Constitution,
would they leave voluntarily or would the fight it? I have no idea how they would fight it. And who would force them to leave? I just would not trust them to leave on their own. I'd love to see them frog marched out!!
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Fri Jul-20-07 03:31 PM
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would force them to leave. Why would they stay? They wouldn't be in power anymore.
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Fri Jul-20-07 03:09 PM
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7. No, they have no options, they are out the moment they are convicted.
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