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To: Jim Noble
The Speaker of the House is next in line after the Vice President. If the Democrats were to regain control of the House, they could select Bill Clinton as Speaker (I believe there is no requirement that the Speaker be an actual member of the House). If Hillary were to become President, she and her Vice President could resign making Bill the Acting President.

I don't think that there is anything in the Constitution that would prevent him from continuing to be Acting President until Jan. 20, 2021 (assuming he doesn't die of VD or a cocaine overdose in the meantime).

29 posted on 05/15/2016 9:09:33 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

I think when Kissinger and Albright held ‘high’ Cabinet positions they were disqualified from becoming Pres because of birth/citizenship issues -
Be interesting to see how that would be handled today??

Like an earlier poster said you can’t ‘backdoor’ it if you are Constitutionally ineligible on one hand.


30 posted on 05/15/2016 9:19:03 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Pols headstone- Please bury me not so deep so I can continue to fleece the sheep")
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