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by unsnap_biceps 453 days ago
Congress is intended to be able to enforce via impeachment, but if congress declines to impeach, there's really no consequences for the executive branch.
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Can we recall the elected officials who are shirking their duty to impeach an executive who is behaving unlawfully?
The only officials who matter here are congressmen, and there's no provision in the US Constitution that would allow for a recall. The only legal mechanism for removal is expulsion, which must be voted on by the rest of Congress, so...
No, we can't. It's unconstitutional.

Besides... even where recalls are allowed, it's only by their own district. The Congressmen were just elected, and their constituents generally approve of this. A recall effort would certainly fail.

In theory they could be expelled by Congress itself. But obviously that's not going to happen.

The 2A crowd has thoughts about this
Yeah, thoughts and prayers. I'll believe the 2A crowd if they ever do something.
You have more faith in them than I do. I wouldn't be surprised if the 2A crowd rise up, in a year or two, to defend America's Lord and Savior Trump from leftist thugs.