Vermont Lt wrote: “So, it would be “legal” for the Vice President to murder the President in the White House? The VP becomes president and pardons themselves? That doesn’t sound right.”
One can spin all sorts of hypotheticals. Suppose the only way to stop a deranged President from initiating a nuclear launch? Would a VP acting to stop that be ‘right’?
No, as I stated previously. Bring the VP into the house for impeachment and then conviction in the senate, then try the VP for his actions which would be ‘high crimes and misdemenors’. His pardon would be no defense for the impeachment and senate trial. I’m sure there are some hypotheticals that only result in removal from office and no further criminal prosecutions. That maybe the price for protecting the presidents ability to act.
Good points.
As I wrote, the “exercise” is an extreme example. If something like that actually happened it would come out of a Tom Clancy novel or something of the like. LOL