The United States has a determined hierarchy for the presidential line of succession. If the elected president dies, resigns, is temporarily incapacitated, or is removed from office, the office of ...

This provision, side by side with the Twentieth and Twenty-fifth Amendments, is a major anchor for presidential succession in the United States ... to establish a line of succession beyond ...

The person chosen as designated survivor – generally a cabinet member – must be in the presidential line of succession ... years of residency in the United States. The process of replacing ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is being inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States on Monday ... the case of a catastrophic emergency, the succession of the presidency is kept intact.

FORMALIZING through a constitutional amendment the statutory role of the vice president in ... of the invasion by the United States of the archipelago in 1898 in line with its then ongoing war ...

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 ...

Kennedy tragically demonstrates the great vulnerability of the President of the United States ... however, the current order of Presidential succession has come under critical examination.