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Section 2 provides a mechanism for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. Before the Twenty-fifth Amendment, a vice-presidential vacancy continued until a new vice president took office at the start of the next presidential term; the vice presidency had become vacant several times due to death, resignation, or succession to the presidency, and these vacancies had often lasted several years.
In each case, had the incumbent president died, resigned, been removed from office or been disabled during one of these vice presidential vacancies, the president pro tempore of the Senate would have become the acting president. Such a double vacancy nearly occurred on three occasions:
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
President Bill Clinton (right) and President-elect George W. Bush (left) meet in the Oval Office of the White House as part of the presidential transition. The 2000–01 transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush was shortened by several weeks due to the Florida recount crisis that ended after the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Bush v.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to strip his name from the ballot in Michigan, once again pressing the nation's highest judicial body to intervene in his fights to ...
In January 1964, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson asked in a State of the Union address that Congress declare an “unconditional war on poverty.” He instructed Congress “not only to relieve ...
A noted example of this is that of Charles Evans Hughes, who resigned from the United States Supreme Court to run for president against Woodrow Wilson, and was later returned to the court as Chief Justice of the United States by Herbert Hoover. Another rare situation occurs where a court that has not been specifically designated as an Article ...
The 2016 election of Donald Trump ushered in the selection of multiple right-leaning Supreme Court justices, including Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh, who both voted for the ...