WHATTA COINKYDINK

[rone]

Noted recording artist Orrin Hatch introduced a joint resolution to the Senate in July "that would allow anyone who has been a U.S. citizen for 20 years to run for president." While he proposed this before Ahnuld announced his intention to run for governor, you gotta wonder if it's outside the realm of possibility that people in the GOP already knew that he wanted to do it. Anyway... we're back to "Demolition Man": escapist fluff or chilling prophecy?

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

I am not a lawyer, but unless I am very mistaken, a joint resolution of Congress means exactly squat in this case. The native-born citizen requirement is part of the Constitution itself: overriding it takes an amendment or a constitutional convention.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Right, it's just the first step of many. And i don't think that where one's born should affect what job one can have, per se. But the timing, as always, is amusing.

[fallenpegasus]

The joint resolution is the first necessary step of an Amendment. Next, the two houses have to agree on identical text (which they haven't done yet). Then they have to kick it to the States.