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| Sep 6, 2019 at 18:36 | comment | added | phoog | The other thing that would make this impossible is that an impeached party may be disqualified "to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States." This does require a separate (simple majority) vote of the senate, however, so it doesn't remove the theoretical possibility. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 17:56 | comment | added | John | Just wanted further clarify some math. Successful impeachment would mean that less than one-third of the Senate thinks that you're fit for office. So if they had the numbers to convict the accused president, then there is no way half of the Senate would confirm his VP appointment. Then add in that using these sort of schemes and tricks would reflect poor integrity and further hurt his or her chances of securing the consent of the Senate. No way that this scheme would mathematically work. | |
| Jan 29, 2018 at 12:57 | history | edited | Ryathal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2018 at 0:02 | comment | added | user102008 | "the VP appointment would require the senate to consent" It would require a majority of the House and the Senate. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 17:25 | comment | added | supercat | @tonysdg: For example, if the Presidential limo were to crash and render the President comatose, but he were to recover two weeks later, it would not be unreasonable for the VP to have moved into the Oval Office by that time, but if everyone agreed the President was in good health after that there should be no problem with the VP resuming his former role as VP while the President resumed his role as President. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 17:19 | comment | added | supercat | @tonysdg: I know the VP can perform presidential duties even for short periods of incapacitation, but in most such cases I would expect that the VP would typically let non-urgent matters wait for the President. If the President was going to be in surgery for 6 hours, for example, it would be unseemly for the VP to schedule a summit with a foreign head of state during the six-hours he had presidential authority. When I said "acting president", I meant to imply a duration long and uncertain enough that the President was not particularly expected to return to office. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 16:56 | comment | added | tonysdg | @supercat If the President were incapacitated long enough that the VP had to serve as acting president -- I think you're overestimating here. There have been several cases in recent history where the VP served as acting Pres. for only a couple of hours. Similarly, the powers of the presidency aren't always transferred immediately when the Pres. is incapacitated. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 21:11 | comment | added | supercat | ...announce he was "recovered" and able to resume work as soon as the VP was no longer able to. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 21:11 | comment | added | supercat | If the President were incapacitated long enough that the VP had to serve as acting president, and the President--once he recovered--was happy with the job the VP was doing, could the President simply let the VP continue to serve as acting president unless or until something happened to him, but then resume his duties as President if the VP were incapacitated? The President wouldn't be entitled to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate, but otherwise I don't think anything would forbid the President from being in "recovery" for as long as the VP was able to do the job, but... | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 19:07 | vote | accept | Connor Clark | ||
| Feb 27, 2015 at 13:23 | history | answered | Ryathal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |