Does Fraud Cancel a President?

For John, BLUF:  The quick answer is no, but this blog post lays out the thinking.  By the way, the Blogger lives in Massachusetts.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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What if the 2020 election audits end up revealing that Trump was actually the winner?

From The New Neo, by Herself, 10 July 2021.

Here is the lede plus two:

In this American Thinker article, Andrew W. Coy points out that the Constitution is silent on the question of what would happen if, after a president has been declared the winner and taken office, it was discovered that he or she won through election fraud.

I have long thought that in such a scenario there would be no remedy that would undo the wrong.  The remedy for such fraud after the person is already in office is to convict the perpetrators of fraud and to either fine them or send them to prison, or both.

Also, fraud is usually found in small, local elections, and it is difficult to prove even then.  Nor does it need to have affected or changed the results of an election in order to be actionable fraud. Proving that without the fraud the results would have been different is even more difficult.  But that is the situation that those challenging the idea that fraud occurred in 2020 would have the Trump-supporters prove in order to have any credibility at all, and even then it wouldn’t reverse things.

The only route to overthrowing President Biden is to take a page from the Democrats during the last Presidency.  Win back the House and the Senate from the Democrats and impeach the President and Vice President, allowing the Speaker of the House to step up.  That would be, of course, Donald J Trump.♠

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  For those who wonder, no, you do not have to be an elected member of the House of Representtives to be the Speaker of the House.