Settle Grace Poe’s eligibility question now

WE understand that it takes a supreme amount of self-confidence – maybe even hubris, such as presumptuously asserting that one’s ambition has the grace of God – to seek election to the nation’s highest office. Those who campaign for the presidency cannot typically be described as shrinking violets.

Confidence bordering on arrogance is probably acceptable; however, an arrogant disregard for the unambiguous law of the land is absolutely not. Yet that certainly appears to be the perspective on which Senator Grace Poe-Llamanzares is building her campaign for the presidency, on the assumption that widespread popularity trumps the Constitution.