No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
ā¦verified by either the FBI or the SS. Candidates also undergo an extensive and public background check, series of interviews, and screening process.
Verifying someoneās age and citizenship is not exactly passing a background security check. Again, are you suggesting that a person could be elected president then have the FBI or SS disallow him form taking the office? The fact that Il Douche currently holds that office would suggest otherwise.
No.
Which is why we had the Mueller Investigation, and why we are now holding impeachment hearings.
Because even an ambitious and political US Attorney isnāt gong to start throwing around charges when all they have for evidence is the lint in their pockets.
Again, no, thatās not how this works.
President Biff couldnāt pass a security clearance check when he was a candidate, or at any time since. Kushner is less compromised, and he couldnāt pass a security clearance check.
Impeachment is a political process. The initiation of the Mueller investigation was a political process.
Would they be that different?
I love such an elegantly simple solution.
Are congressional staff subject to the clearance process? I know that thereās a constitutional problem with subjecting elected legislators to that sort of scrutiny.
Then itās up to a couple of million of us to go to DC and kick his ass out.
i think thatād be dangerous. itād be too easy for a majority party to exclude the minority party from the presidency. and then thereād be little recourse for fixing the problem.
Well, yes. Itās also unconstitutional.
Well given the constitutional right of the President to grant and revoke clearance at will, yes.
That could be addressed by making the candidate clearance requirement the baseline OPM clearance and then making OPM immune from presidential powers over clearance.
OPM clearance is the most basic in order to get hired to sweep floors at a federal agency.
As a former WVian, can I just say āyup, that checks out.ā
Plus, thereās the issue of confidentiality.
Winning?
From an oligarchical view, and the view of anyone who wants a government āsmall enough to drown in a bathtubā, sure.
