The designated survivor for a president's address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too ...

The “bumping” provision may run afoul of the requirement of the Presidential Succession Clause that “such Officer shall act accordingly [as acting president], until the Disability be removed ...

While it may not be an important job in terms of actually running the Senate, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 placed the president pro tempore after the vice president and speaker of the ...

to act as president through a presidential-succession statute. Indeed, many of today’s scholarly and policy debates about the amendment speculate on how it could be interpreted or altered to ...

under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. Neither scenario has happened in American history.

distinguish between two modes of succession by the VP, first by serving as acting president, and second by becoming president with full powers. In the first mode, the vice president "shall act' as ...

We are in uncharted territory. President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis is unlike anything that's happened in modern history. And the implications are huge now that the most powerful person on ...