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
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