This is a list of the current presidential line of succession,[1] as specified by the United States Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. § 19) and subsequent amendments to include newly created cabinet officers.
# Office Current Officer
1 Vice President Joe Biden
2 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
4 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
5 Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates[2]
7 Attorney General Eric Holder
8 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
9 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
10 Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
11 Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
14 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
15 Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
16 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
18 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
I need 19 - 30 of the succession list. I don’t like any of the first 18. Hilda Solis? Please kill me now.
That is a grim succession list. Interesting that most of the list is not elected.
Well, if Obama is removed from office and Biden and Pelosi are removed from the line of presidential succession for complicity in a crimes against the Constitution, then Robert Byrd would be President. If he too was for some reason removed from the line of succession for his own involvement then we have a serious problem and we will have neither a President nor a Vice President. Because if Obama is ruled to be illegally President, that would mean ALL of the Cabinet officials he appointed would not be in the Presidential line of succession because they were not appointed by a US president. Consequently, they too are ineligible to be president.
Unnnnnnnngh!