Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
We've already had witches attempt to cast a mass spell to remove President Trump from office but now a former senior editor of New Yorker magazine, Jeffrey Frank, has come up with an equally unlikely scenario: a recall election. Yes, the extremely desperate left have analyzed and discarded removing Trump via impeachment or the 25th Amendment so now a recall election has been trotted out despite that fact that it isn't even constitutional.
So what to do? What to do? Why...let's just pass a new constitutional amendment despite the fact that it appears to be even more difficult for this to happen before Trump leaves office than conjuring Macbeth's witches into existence as Frank's tortured explanation reveals:
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Americans, from time to time, do get very angry with their Presidents, but never, in modern memory, as fervently or as quickly as with this one.
...It means something that so much commentary, coming so quickly, concerns ways to undo the results of the election. But apart from impeachment, or the Twenty-fifth Amendment, which I examined recently, there is no legal remedy if the nation loses confidence in its elected leader.
Actual constitutional means to remove Trump from office, especially since he has committed no impeachable offense, are impossible so let us venture into Frank's fantasyland for a solution:
Or not yet. But, some sixty-six years ago, in the midst of another political firestorm, a senator named Robert C. Hendrickson, a New Jersey Republican, came up with a proposal for another path: a constitutional amendment that would allow Americans, by popular vote, to recall a President, in much the way that voters in nineteen states, the District of Columbia, and many localities may recall their elected officials.
I'm picturing Jeffrey Frank as Andy Hardy except instead of exclaiming, "Hey kids, let's put on a show!" just substitute "Hey kids, let's pass a constitutional amendment!"
Under Hendrickson’s plan, a nationwide recall vote would be held when the legislatures of two-thirds of the states demanded it, with each state then having a number of votes equal to its total number of senators and representatives—similar, that is, to the Electoral College. His proposal came, and went, some sixteen years before the Twenty-fifth Amendment was ratified. But without reference to any particular era or President, it is an idea whose time may have come: a way to assert the power of the ballot if the government tries to seize powers beyond constitutional limits.
Yeah, riiiight. Let's just pass that recall election constitutional amendment without any reference to President Donald Trump. Got that? This constitutional amendment has absolutely nothing to do with DONALD TRUMP. Hey look, everybody! I'm saying it with a straight face: this recall election constitutional amendment idea has nothing to do with any particular president, especially not DONALD TRUMP. Nope. Not a certain DONALD TRUMP who is infecting my every thought 24/7. I'm not obssessed by TRUMP the guy who I never dreamed would enter the Oval Office and whose very presence there is assault against my liberal sensibilities. BE GONE DONALD TRUMP!!! Oh, and did I tell you this constitutional amendment has no reference to any president such as DONALD TRUMP?
