[GCFL-discuss] who was president 12:01 pm yesterday

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Point taken. This was an interesting exercise in what-it, although it
turned out that the premise was flawed.  but the exercise was fun.
 
Now a new question, inspired by -- but independent of -- the previous
discussion.
Siarlys (our resident constitutional scholar)
Please elaborate on this statement: 

	Succession to the office of president, beyond the vice
president, is established by a congressional 
	statute, adopted under the authority of Amendment XX (1933) and
Amendment XXV (1967). 

What does the amendment say and what does the statue say?  i thought
there were several layers of congressional leaders in line before the
cabinet, not just two.

Zvi Freund

 


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Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] who was president 12:01 pm yesterday


My point is, until they either DO resign to become president, or pass,
the office does not fall to anyone else. So talking about the Secretary
of State or any other cabinet officer (they are all in line, in order of
how old their position is), becoming president for a few minutes, is
nonsense.
 
If a major crisis had erupted on Jan 20 around noon, either Bush or
Obama or both would have handled it. Nobody else.
 
Siarlys
 
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:29:16 -0500 "Discussion of the Good, Clean
Funnies List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:

	Siarlys 
	Please elaborate on this statement: 

		Succession to the office of president, beyond the vice
president, is established by a congressional 
		statute, adopted under the authority of Amendment XX
(1933) and Amendment XXV (1967). 

	The congressional statute you refer to (which I saw before
starting this thread but thought was part of the amendment), states
explicitly that the Speaker or President pro temp must resign before
assuming the presidency.  

	greenBubble 

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