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Facebook Exchange With A Friend Re Nancy Pelosi Becoming Prez If Trump And Pence Go Down
Alan Archibald
October 7
The constitution specifies that If Pence goes down with Trump, Nancy Pelosi becomes president.
Stay tuned.
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Zach Zimet
Not exactly. If Trump goes down, Pence becomes president. Then he appoints a new VP, who would become president if he gets removed. Unless things happen in a very specific way, we won't see president Pelosi.
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Alan Archibald
I think I've got this right.
The 25th Amendment says that whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congr
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Zach Zimet
This is what I said: a very specific way--the Dems playing a dirty trick to avoid seating a VP, THEN impeaching again while there's no VP in place.
I personally would consider that to be very bad, an odd power grab to steal the presidency.
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Alan Archibald
I agree.
The process I describe is not desirable.
But, after decades of dirty tricks including grotesque gerrymandering and Moscow Mitch's theft of Obama's Supreme Court appointment, how do we restore a semblance of justice.
Maybe we could arrange a quid pro quo in which Democrats get to name the next Republican president's Supreme Court nominee (thus "replacing" Gorsuch whose seat on the bench was stolen from Obama) plus a civil trial for Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas in which "the preponderance of evidence" (rather than "reasonable doubt") is the evidentiary standard.
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