To establish Justice and Ensure Domestic Tranquility.
I have a modest proposal.
Our Constitution and our Founding Fathers never envisioned something like we are seeing: the prospect of a President conspiring with an enemy power to distort the will of the people. There’s no legal way for a do-over election.
The Constitution allows for removal of the President so we can impeach and convict Trump. But in the case of a conspiracy to affect the election, this would still have the effect of giving power to the Party who benefited from the conspiracy. In fact under the original constitution, you wouldn’t face this problem as the Vice Presidency went to the person with the second most votes. But the 12 Amendment shifted the selection of the VP to the Electoral College and we now have the tradition where both the President and Vice President are from the same party.
So why don’t we get rid of both President and the VP? Well in that case the presidential line of succession laws say then the presidency would go to the Speaker of the House. This would also have the effect of rewarding the party who was part of the conspiracy.
However, the Speaker of the House does not need to be in Congress.
So here’s my modest proposal. In the case of where it’s proven this election was stolen by POTUS colluding with a hostile foreign country, I propose we petition that a new House Speaker is chosen and that speaker be the rightful winner of the election, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And further, the VP ascends to the Presidency and then resigns after she is in place.
I do not pretend this is likely whatsoever, but if this scandal grows to such proportions, this could be a way to redress the issue without mass unrest or violence. It has the benefits of establishing Justice and Domestic Tranquility and is consitutional.
