It seems those pesky wingnut lawyers over at Judicial Watch, who wasted 60 million taxpayer dollars on their quest for the holy grail of Clinton's impeachment ten years ago, are back again to amuse us with more of their wacky antics. This time they managed to manipulate some poor slob over at the State Department to file a lawsuit in federal court against newly sworn-in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claiming she is constitutionally ineligible to serve.
Their perverted rationale is based on a clause in the Constitution that forbids members of the Senate from being appointed to civil office, such as Secretary of State, if the salary and benefits of the office were increased during the senator's term. Of course they dismissed the fact that Congress reduced Clinton's salary to the level in effect before her recent term in the Senate.
The poster boy for this latest wingnut crusade is U.S. Foreign Service Officer and State Department employee David C. Rodearmel, who maintains Clinton is constitutionally ineligible to serve as Secretary of State and that he cannot serve under her because doing so would go against the oath he took as a foreign service officer in 1991 to "support and defend" and "bear true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution of the United States. Rodearmel said in a statement:
"This is not a partisan, political or personal issue. I have faithfully served under six prior Secretaries of State of both parties, and under eight Presidents since first taking the oath to uphold the Constitution as a young Army officer cadet. ... As a commissioned State Department Foreign Service Officer, a retired Army Reserve Judge Advocate Officer, and as a lawyer, I consider it my Constitutional duty to bring this case to the courts."
If I was responsible to find an assignment for this whackjob, it would be to a post in Switzerland where he can study the uses of yodeling in diplomatic communications.