Posted on 01/18/2017 5:36:54 PM PST by TigerClaws
This is the craziest thing Ive ever seen on CNN and thats saying a lot. Wolf Blitzer broke out with a developing story about how if the inauguration is attacked and everyone died, the constitution actually says that an Obama cabinet member would legally become the president.
Lordy the Left just doesn’t stop
They are actively rooting for such a thing.
Presidential Line of Succession:
The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 sets the order of Presidential Succession. This order is followed if the President dies or is incapacitated. The order of cabinet officers included in the list is determined by the dates on which each of their positions was created:
Vice President
Speaker of the House - Paul Ryan
President pro tempore of the Senate - Orin Hatch
Secretary of State - John Kerry
Secretary of Treasury - Jack Lew
Secretary of Defense - Ash Carter
Attorney General - Loretta Lynch
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security
Orders of succession are also established for each of above Cabinet officials within their own departments. Ten successors residing within the National Capital Region (NCR) and three successors outside the NCR are identified for all executive departments and agencies. Here is an example of a 2013 Secretarial Order of Succession.
The Whitehouse has released this information dated 1/18/2017
https://whitehouse.gov1.info/continuity-plan/
Question- Has any of the new cabinet been approved by the Senate?
Why talk about it (loose lips sink ships) UNLESS THEY ARE HOPING FOR IT?
I've talked to some military who agree!
The 25th Amendment, not the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, covers when the VP becomes President or Acting President. The PSA covers the rest, but there are questions regarding its Constitutionality (search “Presidential Succession Act” and “unconstitutional”).
Under what authority?
No, that’s not how it works, nor should we want it to happen that way. Obama has zero authority at 12:01 pm Jan 20 and the military has no authority to do anything of the sort. Obama is President right up to the point Trump finishes the oath. At that point the power is transferred.
Both Trump and Pence would have to be taken out—Then Paul Ryan would be President—Not an Obamaphile. Anything like this could well be the start of CW II. Would the Army follow an Obama pick? I think not. If they did—states would fall away and a new president selected—Maybe Ivanka? Eric? I don’t know how it would play out but Lots of Folks would die.
Yea, whatever...silly, very silly, for them to talk about anyway.
“And everyone died”??????
It’s actually good that the MSM vermin are revealing themselves for the scuttling little devils that they are.
Obama is out of office at noon on Friday, per Section 1 of the 20th Amendment. The Oath of Office is needed so Trump can exercise the powers of the Presidency.
LOL CNN, pretty blatant with their fantasies eh? Bastards.
But what they say is accurate.
Obama will have no authority when his term expires. Cabinet members however remain in office until they resign or are discharged, their terms of service do NOT automatically end, they all serve indefinitely at the pleasure of the President.
If the President-Elect, Vice President-elect, Speaker Ryan and Pres Pro Tem Hatch all happen to be murdered in a terrorist attack it is legally correct that (provided they have not yet resigned) a surviving Cabinet member (first in line would be Kerry) would become ACTING President.
Under current law, which in my opinion unconstitutionally places the House Speaker and Pres Pro Tem in the line, the deceased Ryan’s replacement as House Speaker would immediately be able to supplant the cabinet member and become the new Acting President.
I have read the 25th amendment, but I don’t see what happens if the President and VP are both killed.
Amendment XX provides that Obama and Biden’s terms end and the newly elected Pres and VP terms begin Jan 20 at noon. It also says Congress shall provide for the case if neither Pres nor VP are qualified.
Article II Section 1 provides that “before he enter on the execution of office”, he shall take the oath.
So if President Elect and VP Pence were to be killed either before or after the oath it looks to me like whatever law Congress has passed would apply.
All I can say is at least it wouldn’t be a democrat, unless the Top Senate leaders are also taken out.
CNN IS IN ATLANTA.
I LIVE IN ATLANTA.
Bobby lives!
Gee, what would happen if there was an attack on Leftists, and all the Leftists died?
Heaven on Earth.
There’s already 60 Dems who are not going to be present. The commie wing of the party.
The video is at the link
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