When Donald Trump took the oath of office once again, it was the last time he’d be able to do so under the country’s constitution. But that hasn’t stopped his team from flirting with the idea of running again, writes Alex Hannaford – and the Democrats are nowhere to be seen...
  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 个月前

    The way around that is making him speaker of the house and having both the president and vice president resign. Speaker doesn’t have any real requirements on it.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 个月前

      The Constitution leaves what happens if the Presidency and VP are both vacant at the same time up to Congress, and Congress has passed various Presidential Succession Acts, the most recent being 1947. The language in that Act specifically exempts anyone who would otherwise be ineligible from becoming President.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act

      And this has been enforced in the past; Cabinet Secretaries who were not natural-born citizens have not been included in the succession list. I remember specifically that when Madeline Albright was Clinton’s Secretary of State, she was not on the list because she was born in Prague.

    • BlackRing@midwest.social
      5·
      2 个月前

      I vaguely remember Trump briefly trying to be speaker of the house at some point, or at least talking about it.

      • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 个月前

        It’s been floated around for a bunch of politicians. They were talking about making Hillary speaker while impeaching Trump and Pence too.