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I'm almost wondering if we may ever end up in a situation where someone who is constitutionally unqualified to serve as President winds up becoming Vice Preside

by amyjess 10y ago

I'm almost wondering if we may ever end up in a situation where someone who is constitutionally unqualified to serve as President winds up becoming Vice President, so the Speaker of the House effectively becomes the President's successor. Maybe if there's some bizarre brokered convention where the delegates agree to put a certain person on the party ticket as President if they agree to effectively leave the role of the President's successor to Congress by naming an 18-year-old kid (need to be 35 to be President) as his running mate.

InitialLastName 10y ago
The last sentence of the 12th Amendment to the US Constitution [0]: > But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States People further down the presidential line of succession can be ineligible to be president. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is ineligible to be president due to having been born in Taiwan. In the event that the succession should make it that far down the list, she will be skipped. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_Unite...