re: Question on the Star Wars PT

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For example, he used the Naboo crisis to be elected Supreme Chancellor. What would've happened if the Queen refused to call for a vote of no confidence or if Palpatine lost the election? 

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Palpatine made sure that was her only logical recourse. The fate of her planet hung in the balance. A good number of the Senate was in his pocket and he was purposely stalling any action being taken in the governing body. Forcing Naboo to declare a vote of no confidence would foster support of their allies and the existing support from members in his pocket. He needed Naboo to gain majority support leaving him, a sympathetic senator, as the popular replacement.

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Then, in Attack of the Clones, he manufactures a conflict between the Republic and the Separatists as an excuse to be granted emergency powers and legalize the creation of a military force. What does he do if he is never granted emergency powers? Does he serve out his term and go away or create some other, more serious conflict? 

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I would imagine he had already consolidated a great deal of power in the Senate at this stage and simply expanded what he had done to Naboo to other sectors forcing their hand as well. He left them little choice.

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Then, in Revenge of the Sith, when they Jedi find out that Palpatine is a Sith lord, they immediately go to his office to try to kill him. First off, is it a crime to be a Sith lord? Do they have evidence to link him to any actual crimes such as treason against the Republic? What if the Jedi had simply stood back and not done anything about Palpatine? Why not go to the Senate first and ask Palpatine to give up his emergency powers now that the war is over?

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Not sure if it is illegal to be a Sith lord and you see Palpatine play up this conflict to help turn Anikin. He tells him of the jedi counsels plan to commit treason against the Senate and democracy. He has already been planting the seeds of distrust...the jedi sending him to spy goes against jedi teachings....the council interfering in government by trying to arrest the chancellor is another. However, it is the act of trying to kill the chancellor without due process, obviously against the jedi code, that turns Anikin against the jedi for good. Palpatine was effective in showing their hypocrisy.

What doesn't make sense to me is the fact that Anikin is turned because of this moral hypocrisy and immediately sets off to kill a bunch of children.