Americans Deserve A Presidential Recall Option

There is a quick and easy way to ease what Americans say is their growing anxiety over a Trump, Sanders, or Clinton presidency. Just give Americans the option to recall via a national referendum any future sitting president they clearly believe is taking the country in a wrong or dangerous direction or consistently violating the Constitutional limits on his or her power. This is hardly a revolutionary idea. Californians in 2003 recalled their unpopular governor Grey Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger in his place. Just this last March New Jersey newspapers urged state voters to remove Governor Christie for purportedly neglecting his gubernatorial duties. Congress does have the constitutional authority to remove a president, but only  if the president is found guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” via the woefully cumbersome and ineffective impeachment process. In 1951 US Senator Robert Hendrickson (R,NJ)  proposed a constitutional amendment...(Read Full Article)