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Carrick McClennithan is the bringer of storms (theseainsideme) wrote in we_float,

Oh, the times he'd considered that question. The first few iterations of his thoughts had compared it to the effect a sex scandal had on a person. There were false apologies to constituents, associates treated you like the plague for awhile, but so long as it wasn't immediate to an election it was amazing how fast people forgot their outrage.

But time had nuanced his internal debate. She was of course speaking on someone public - Congress or the President's Cabinet - otherwise the answer would be to fire and forget they ever existed. Anyone on the cabinet would be asked to resign, he imagined. They all served at the President's discretion and he couldn't imagine any sort of recourse now that the Wild Card Act eliminated any employment fairness. But Congress was a different matter. Oh, he was sure party members would insist on resignation, but they were elected officials. It would, he thought, be a state matter.

"That would depend on whether or not anyone could make a case for fraudulence," he said off the cuff, but chose to elaborate in a different direction. "If said person is stubborn enough, the matter goes to the Supreme Court. Not directly of course, but if they were fervent enough to try and slip into Congress or Cabinet, I'd imagine the appeals process lands them there to determine constitutionality. Now, whether that's a beneficial thing is anyone's guess - it really would depend on the argument - but..."

Alistair shrugged and then looked at Katherine expectantly. "Why do you ask?"