The current succession statute, however, contains the legislative offices, with the Speaker first and the president pro tem next, followed by a line of cabinet officers in the order in which the ...

A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship ...

Should something happen to the president pro tempore, the person next in line to take over the reins of government would be the speaker of the House. In 1886, the succession order was changed ...

the U.S. Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 list 15 specific cabinet officials in the presidential order of succession. This lesson looks at these 15 cabinet departments in ...

While it may not be an important job in terms of actually running the Senate, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 placed the president pro tempore after the vice president and speaker of the ...

"I sometimes wonder if I would have had the courage to give the order." Cardona is now much further away from becoming U.S. president, as he stands 16th in the line of succession. If Biden's ...

This person, usually someone from the president's cabinet, is chosen not to attend the event so that, in the case of a catastrophic emergency, the succession of the presidency is kept intact.

The statement said the president had rejected the idea of family succession in an interview ... of a federal watchdog agency after a judge's order had temporarily blocked the Republican president ...

Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of ...

Comoros President Says a 'Child' Will Replace Him, Opponents See Succession Plan By Abdou Moustoifa MORONI (Reuters) - (The Jan. 24 story said the president's comments confirmed accusations he had ...