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A member of the United States Senate can resign by writing a letter of resignation to the governor of the state that the senator represents. [1] Under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, and under the Seventeenth Amendment, in case of a vacancy in the Senate resulting from resignation, the executive authority of the state (today known in every state as the governor ...
Became the first cabinet member to announce her resignation, effective on January 11; [56] was criticized by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for resigning rather than voting to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. [57] Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use: Elinore F. McCance-Katz
The first-term senator has to resign from his seat before he and President-elect Donald Trump are sworn into office on January 20. Now, it’s up to Ohio’s Republican governor to appoint Vance ...
CLEVELAND — Vice President-elect JD Vance resigned his Senate seat at midnight Thursday, clearing the way for his swearing-in alongside President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20. Vance, R-Ohio ...
President-elect Donald Trump has said he might install his picks for top administration posts without first winning approval in the U.S. Senate. This would erode the power of Congress and remove a ...
The Ineligibility Clause (sometimes also called the Emoluments Clause, [1] or the Incompatibility Clause, [2] or the Sinecure Clause [3]) is a provision in Article 1, Section 6, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution [4] that makes each incumbent member of Congress ineligible to hold an office established by the federal government during their tenure in Congress; [5] it also bars officials ...
Donald Trump takes a selfie with then-Rep. Matt Gaetz in the House chamber after Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on January 30, 2018.
A resign-to-run law is a law that requires the current holder of an office to resign from that office before they can run for another office. This is distinct from a dual mandate prohibition, where a person has to resign from their old office to assume the new office, rather than to run for the new office. Resign-to-run laws exist in several ...