If the vice president is also unable to serve, the next person to assume the presidency would be the speaker of the House.

It was clear that there was no procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of vice president, although the Constitution authorized Congress to legislate a line of succession to cover situations ...

It also authorizes Congress to establish a line of succession beyond the vice presidency. Left unclear by the clause was whether the vice president became president or simply acted as president in ...

the longest-serving member of the majority party in the Senate is right behind the vice president and the speaker of the House in the line of succession to the presidency. So in the not-by-any ...

15 to confirm the voters’ choice.* If a President-elect dies after the Electoral College meets, but before his inaugural day, the Vice President-elect succeeds him. But what would happen if ...

FORMALIZING through a constitutional amendment the statutory role of the vice president in our constitutional system is one reform that could help to defuse tensions and stabilize the current ...

Never before in history has the line of succession gone past the vice president, meaning most of this discussion is purely academic. Still, House Republicans are currently risking what they would ...

The next person in the European Commission’s line of succession if President Ursula von der Leyen is incapacitated is ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley has again assumed the position of Senate president pro tempore, putting him third in the presidential line of succession.