WASHINGTON — Americans across the country have concerns about the health of their leaders, from President Joe Biden and ...

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 ...

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 ...

It also authorizes Congress to establish a line of succession beyond the vice presidency. Left unclear by the clause was whether the vice president became president or simply acted as president in ...

In formulating the present succession law in 1947, President Truman recommended the substitution of the Speaker for the Secretary of State as second man in the line of succession because the ...

The 47th US President laments that the 'line of succession' prohibits him from making the first Indian-American and Hindu Second Lady the second female Vice President of the country after Kamala Harri ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) resumed the role of Senate president pro tempore. The person who is the longest-serving senator in the majority party holds that position. Grassley was sworn in F ...

US President Donald Trump has said that he would have chosen Usha Chilukuri Vance, JD Vance's wife, as his Vice President as "she is smarter but the line of succession did not work that way". Usha, 39 ...

We are in uncharted territory. President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis is unlike anything that's happened in modern history. And the implications are huge now that the most powerful person on ...