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Republican support wavers for Mike Johnson’s re-election as House speaker
(www.theguardian.com)
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Watch them elect musk as speaker lmfao, there no requirement to be a member of the house.
Please no. Don"t make US more sad and even more of a joke..
it’s too late, this country is cooked
Nah I don’t think he really wants to work that hard
Lol, he's gonna designate someone to be temporary speaker to do the every day tasks.
Serious questions: If Trump and Vance die/leave would that make Musk president if he was speaker? Is that even allowed since he's not a native citizen? Would they just skip him and go next in line?
IIRC, if someone in the line of succession is ineligible (underage, non-native citizen, already been president for too many years, etc), then they are skipped over.
Insurrectionists are also ineligible, but that hasn’t mattered so I wont hold my breath for the courts to uphold other conditions.
Legally no, musk would not in the line of sucession if he were speaker.
But then again, the constitution only says a natural born citizen is required to be president, it never explicitly required the same for acting presidents. Speaker of the House never actually become president, only act as president. So there is a possibility the Supreme Court could rule that Acting Presidents don't need to be a natural born citizen. I mean that'd be crazy, but crazy things like Jan 6, and a Felon becoming president already happened so... 🤷♂️
Don't give them ideas
They already had the ideas. They just needed all the pieces in place.
If it wasn't so absolutely terrifying, it would be hilarious to watch every possible legal, judicial, procedural, constitutional, and legislative loophole be used in varying combinations to bypass each of the above.
Oh, so we can have Speaker Arnold Schwarzenegger as Acting President? Cool. I mean, I don't agree with every of his policies, be he'd be an honorable person to act as president.
I'm not sure we want the Demolition Man timeline