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August 4, 2008 - 4:43 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Fat Man
2008-08-04 22:54:41

“Anything in the Constitution that forbids Dubya from running for V-P?”

Am 12 [last sentence]
“But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

A couple of years ago a big name law prof wrote an op-ed in the NYTimes urging the Dems to pick Bill as Lurch’s running mate in ’04. He had forgotten the 12th Amendment. ["The Next Best Thing to Being President" by Stephen Gillers on March 3, 2004] Oops.

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Southern Cross