True enough. If POTUS is unable to complete his term (for any of a handful of reasons) VPOTUS in in line to be appointed to the office. If Pence is unable (for example POTUS and VPOTUS are simultaneously deceased), Speaker of the House is next. However, once VPOTUS becomes POTUS, he appoints a new VPOTUS and the chain is reset.
So unless they are both deceased in the same incident, it’s very unlikely Speaker would ever be in the position to become POTUS.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Given that the House and Senate are on opposite parties, what are the odds of a majority vote by each?
@Kidsandliz@narfcake@ruouttaurmind
It’s OK. I’m sure one of those activist judges McConnell rammed through won’t give two shits about the actual words in the Constitution during one of their “Originalist interpretation” partisan decisions to cherry-pick the parts they like and pretend the parts they don’t like never existed, because its just more “fake news”.
VP Pence, as POTUS46, will annoint his successor, Ivanka as his new VP, resign after pardoning Trump and the whole family and AG Bill Barr just for bonus points. Ivanka will then ascend to the POTUS throne, and appoint Jared as VP, and tell the Dems to sue the White House in court if they dont like it while McConnell stalls and blocks any accountability because he’s in on it with that Russian aluminum plant in Kentucky that dried up after the campaign checks cleared.
@Cerridwyn I laughed just as hard at the ultra extreme right nutters when they came up with their conspiracy theories about Obama declaring martial law and cocking up some executive order nonsense to invalidate the 2016 election as unlawful, thereby retaining office indefinitely. It was laughable then, as it is now.
@Cerridwyn@ruouttaurmind Well, I think more likely is he’s going to loudly declare fraud to the public, and contest results in the selected states needed to declare a win.
Of course he’s going to declare that results should have been in Tuesday night. Nevermind that the reason inauguration isn’t until January is because it took time to get a result. It’s only a recent thing that between official results and exit polls that the press could calculate a winner with enough confidence that the loser would concede the election before Wednesday morning.
These past few days have certainly been … interesting.
Amidst the scant information, or even misinformation, not everything is being said.
As it is, I don’t think the full extent of the spread is done. The way I read it, “self quarantine” is really saying “I’m actually positive.”
The upcoming days may be the real test. If the POTUS was fully symptomatic on the 1st, I’ll say the the 8th will be a turning point.
Back onto the topic of the line of succession – if the 25th Amendment comes into play, the VP Pence is next, then the SotH Pelosi.
@narfcake
True enough. If POTUS is unable to complete his term (for any of a handful of reasons) VPOTUS in in line to be appointed to the office. If Pence is unable (for example POTUS and VPOTUS are simultaneously deceased), Speaker of the House is next. However, once VPOTUS becomes POTUS, he appoints a new VPOTUS and the chain is reset.
So unless they are both deceased in the same incident, it’s very unlikely Speaker would ever be in the position to become POTUS.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind You missed section 2.
Given that the House and Senate are on opposite parties, what are the odds of a majority vote by each?
@narfcake @ruouttaurmind
Hmm… that could be “interesting” (and not in a good way) to say the least.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake @ruouttaurmind
It’s OK. I’m sure one of those activist judges McConnell rammed through won’t give two shits about the actual words in the Constitution during one of their “Originalist interpretation” partisan decisions to cherry-pick the parts they like and pretend the parts they don’t like never existed, because its just more “fake news”.
VP Pence, as POTUS46, will annoint his successor, Ivanka as his new VP, resign after pardoning Trump and the whole family and AG Bill Barr just for bonus points. Ivanka will then ascend to the POTUS throne, and appoint Jared as VP, and tell the Dems to sue the White House in court if they dont like it while McConnell stalls and blocks any accountability because he’s in on it with that Russian aluminum plant in Kentucky that dried up after the campaign checks cleared.
@mike808
@mike808 @ruouttaurmind
I honestly am not sure I’d laugh quite that hard.
We already know he doesn’t plan to exit the whitehouse in January come hell or high water.
The concept is supposed to be come home with your shield or on it. Not hiding behind it.
@Cerridwyn I laughed just as hard at the ultra extreme right nutters when they came up with their conspiracy theories about Obama declaring martial law and cocking up some executive order nonsense to invalidate the 2016 election as unlawful, thereby retaining office indefinitely. It was laughable then, as it is now.
@Cerridwyn @ruouttaurmind Well, I think more likely is he’s going to loudly declare fraud to the public, and contest results in the selected states needed to declare a win.
Of course he’s going to declare that results should have been in Tuesday night. Nevermind that the reason inauguration isn’t until January is because it took time to get a result. It’s only a recent thing that between official results and exit polls that the press could calculate a winner with enough confidence that the loser would concede the election before Wednesday morning.