The 22a says he can’t be elected. But that doesn’t make him ineligible to serve. The wording presents a loophole that our highly partisan Supreme Court could drive a truck through.
Not without Supreme Court fuckery. As it stands, he’d be eligible to serve as Speaker, but he’d be skipped in the line of succession if it were applicable.
Of course, trusting the Supreme Court to actually follow the rules seems naive at best these days.
There’s a whole bunch of stuff in different parts of the constitution and us code that mention intelligibility in the line of succession. There might be a loop hole around this though I am no constitutional law expert
So right at the end of the 12th amendment there’s this line.
So as of his presidential win this election he’s ineligible to be vice president.
The Supreme Court will just “interpret” that away.
With as much as this Supreme Court is riding Trump’s dick I wouldn’t put it past them to rule in his favor if this made it to them.
The 22a says he can’t be elected. But that doesn’t make him ineligible to serve. The wording presents a loophole that our highly partisan Supreme Court could drive a truck through.
Could he then be nominated Speaker of the House, and then have the President and Vice-President resign?
Not without Supreme Court fuckery. As it stands, he’d be eligible to serve as Speaker, but he’d be skipped in the line of succession if it were applicable.
Of course, trusting the Supreme Court to actually follow the rules seems naive at best these days.
I’m pretty sure no.
There’s a whole bunch of stuff in different parts of the constitution and us code that mention intelligibility in the line of succession. There might be a loop hole around this though I am no constitutional law expert