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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yeah, no one cares about Martin O'Malley. At least, Sanders won primaries. =P
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I was talking about this with my friends earlier. There is no law barring a person who is under criminal indictment, or even has been convicted of a crime, from running for President, winning an election, or taking office. There is a hypothetical world in which Hillary Clinton could be indicted for security violations, win in November, and then be immune to that prosecution until/unless impeached and convicted in Congress.
edited 9th Jul '16 7:16:57 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
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I believe the only way a person can become disqualified to become President (as opposed to never being qualified in the first place) is losing their citizenship, which is pretty difficult to do without voluntarily renouncing it. I believe there are a handful of odd cases like serving in a foreign military, but they are few and far between.
Honestly I prefer it this way. Since in most Presidential elections you either have the sitting President or someone who has been at least implicitly endorsed (an in this case, explicitly endorsed) by the sitting President in the race, it should not be easy for anyone to become legally disqualified.
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If by convict you mean prisoner then they yes, can't vote in most states. However most states allow people who are on probation or parole to vote. About a dozen or so restrict people on probation or parole, and there a couple of oddball states that allow all convicts to vote (even from the inside of a prison cell) or bar convicts from voting beyond their sentence. I know in Virginia a felon's voting rights can only be restored by direct order from the governor, but I believe that's a unique situation.
edited 9th Jul '16 7:19:17 PM by Falrinn
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IIRC, given congress acts as the jury in impeachment proceedings against a President, if the GOP retained the senate, Clinton might very well have ended up being impeached if she'd been indicted unless her Vice President was even less desirable for the GOP to have in office (Sanders or Warren).
edited 9th Jul '16 7:56:55 PM by CaptainCapsase
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What about how Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 had David Petraeus being Secretary of Defense in 2025?
edited 9th Jul '16 8:14:25 PM by HallowHawk
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Or they could immediately trump up charges against the VP and try to stage a coup against the White House and install the Speaker. I mean, it would almost certainly lead to mass protests and probably civil unrest...
edited 9th Jul '16 8:14:59 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.There's another hypothetical world in which Hillary Clinton, having not been indicted, and cleared of all potential charges, takes office in February and immediately faces articles of impeachment drafted by a hostile Republican House of Representatives. In theory, they could do this for her entire term: tie up the proceedings of Congress with an infinite series of impeachments.
edited 9th Jul '16 8:19:32 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"So if civil unrest wasn't bad enough, relations between the US and Russia are starting to break down.
First, we've got allegations of widespread harassment from Russian agents towards US diplomats in Europe
in what's being dubbed a "gray war".
Second, both the US and Russia expelled two diplomats from the opposing country
, the US in retaliation for an attack on a diplomat by a Russian police officer (gif in the link), and Russia did so in retaliation for the retaliation. Fucking hell, it's like I'm playing World of Warcraft again, with "reported!" "reported for reporting!" "Reported for reporting a report!" ad nauseum.
Reports of shots fired at the San Antonio police HQ, but no reports of causalities.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/10/us/san-antonio-police-headquarters-shooting/index.html?adkey=bn
Fixed.
edited 9th Jul '16 10:33:10 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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I'm fairly certain that's a myth. There is no formal agreement between the two countries
, and never was.
edited 9th Jul '16 10:45:02 PM by TerminusEst
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That being said, Clinton was never going to be indicted, but when the Republican candidate is Donald Trump, the Democrats need to have every contingency accounted for. Whatever happens with the Democrats, good or bad, someone like Donald Trump cannot become President of the United States.
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