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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (15828)	10/21/2002 5:27:14 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The Court is an arm of the Federal government, and it is the Federal Government which is the competent enforcement authority. Suppose a President failed to enforce a Supreme Court ruling?: it would be grounds for impeachment. Suppose he refused to cooperate in the impeachment procedure? I believe that would be grounds for removal under the 25th Amendment, section 4: Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. In which case the Vice- president would have the authority to execute a subpoena from the Congress, forcing compliance under threat of incarceration. As it happens, no one has wanted to see what would happen in extreme showdowns, and therefore we have backed away from Constitutional crises. In any event, the situation of the Supreme Court is no different from that of an ordinary court depending on the Department of Corrections to execute sentence......