DEAR READERS OF RON'S AMERICAN WORLD: Please take time to express your opinion of this article below. What do you think is the right thing to do about removing both T-Rump and Pence for bribery/knowledge of bribery and not reporting or stopping it. The Constitution provides that the Speaker of the House then takes over the presidency. That speaker is Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat. That would be a historical first. How would the country react? Why not obey that rule? That is important to some -- actually many like me. But Leonhardt disagrees. Read below and tell us your opinion.
The president led a conspiracy to use American foreign policy for his personal benefit. We’ve known that much for weeks. Yesterday, we heard a credible accusation that the vice president, among other top officials, was aware of the conspiracy and evidently did nothing to stop it.
Imagine for a moment that congressional Republicans were willing to make good on the oath they have all taken to defend the Constitution. In that scenario (fanciful, I realize), both President Trump and Vice President Pence would be at risk of being impeached and removed. This combination would then create a new and separate political crisis.
Why? Because the second person in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president, is the speaker of the House, who is of course currently a Democrat — Nancy Pelosi. If both Trump and Pence were removed from office, Pelosi would become president, flipping partisan control of the White House and the executive branch.
That should never happen. A scandal should be able to lead to the removal of individual officials, but it should not reverse which party won an election. “If the electorate says that such-and-such a party should have the White House for four years, it ought to have the White House for four years,” Dwight Eisenhower wisely said.
The potential for a partisan reversal raises all kinds of problems. It creates incentives for one party to exaggerate a scandal (which, to be clear, is not happening in this case). It can also lead to more voters distrusting an impeachment process. “The whole point of having a line of succession is to ensure a smooth transition and a continuity of administration in a time of crisis,” my colleague Jesse Wegman has written. “Having a leader of the opposing party take over the White House, especially in an era of intense political polarization, would not achieve that, to put it mildly.”
Or as Jonathan Bernstein of Bloomberg Opinion writes: “It’s contrary to the entire structure of the constitutional system, which separates legislative from executive institutions and forces them to share powers.”
The line of succession stems from a 1947 law, and it can be changed with a new law anytime. Pelosi and House Democrats should pass such a law as soon as possible, so that every potential successor comes from the executive branch. It would be a victory for good government — and would also send a message about the severity of Trump’s and Pence’s high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sounds vaguely reiminiscent of society of the present era at times, doesn't it? What does this thinking meant to our history as well as our present and future as a people as simply a "Way of Thought."
This is an amazing story of the life of a great African-American woman of distinction. Her life story is one of staunch self-development and appreciator of the life and times of the Black populous of the times. Having been turned down from her admittance to Barnard College in Manhatten because they had reached their two-Negro quota -- even though they had already accepted her, Dorothy managed to immediately make new plans for her young life. She then stayed on in NYC with relatives. lived next door to musician W. D. Handy, a blues composer, and hobnobbed with noted Black people of the Harlem Rennaissance like Langston Hughes, learned from encounters with W. E. B. DuBois and others. Dorothy was admitted to NYC and graduated with a Masters. She becamse an NYC Case Worker. Living in Harlem, she met notable people from many other organizations such as Mary McCleod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins. Bethune's influence was remarkable to young Dorothy at that time as Dorothy came to follow the footsteps of this distinguiwhed Black woman, Mary McCleod Betune, a Mover and Shaker of the times. She lived a life of dedication and achievement for herself and for her people. She worked with student church groups. She became a non-violent activist. Surprisingly she began her activist life spark in the tutelage of the Marcus Garvey Movement and advanced to other causes, specifically the organizational offerings of Mary McCleod Bethune who became a women of great worth to her people in her own right. Dorothy became a student activisits under the Garvey influence, Later she became a student leader of several youth organizations. She lived through the Harlem riot. She vowed to get into a position to do something more effective for her people. She got a job at the YWCA, where she could use the drive for equality and justice she felt. There she met Mary McCleod Bethune. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women. At one meeting at the Y, both Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt came into Dorothy's life. The rest is history that unfolds interestingly and beautifully in the video of Dorothy Height's illustrious life. It would be of interest to you to listen and experience this significant story.
The work is not over we MUST continue to build for real change.
We need to stay involved and pushing in our local communities.
Helping others areas all over the country. This will not be a short term effort, THE PROBLEMS ARE MASSIVE ,so must
our effort be. We must continue to build local and regional group to register new voters and inspire old ones to come back in. We need to organize around local issues and candidates.
The work is not over we MUST continue to build for real change.
We need to stay involved and pushing in our local communities.
Helping others areas all over the country. This will not be a short term effort, THE PROBLEMS ARE MASSIVE ,so must
our effort be. We must continue to build local and regional group to register new voters and inspire old ones to come back in. We need to organize around local issues and candidates.
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