[ExI] An interesting situation

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 12:56 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> There does not seem to be any provision that the Speaker of the House
> needs to be qualified to be President, but if both the President and
> VP died would the speaker become President in spite of the
> Constitutional provisions?
>

No (for any speaker not constitutionally qualified), and this is handled
under current law.  Right now, in fact, there are a few on the Presidential
succession list who are not qualified; should everyone above them be
removed from office, they would simply be skipped.  See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
.

I have heard of a counterproposal to nominate Liz Cheney as Speaker of the
House, seeking support from Democrats and a few dissatisfied Republicans.
IIRC, she would be constitutionally qualified to become President should
this happen and circumstances remove Trump and Vance.

>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20241226/06159aee/attachment.htm>