Sen. Panfilo Lacson has filed a bill that seeks to prevent the disruption of government operations in case of a disaster or ...

That’s where the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 comes into play. It was signed by former President Harry Truman, and it outlines an order of leaders who can assume the presidency. Here's ...

President Biden's Cabinet has two naturalized U.S. citizens, who are barred via the Constitution from becoming president, although the White House has them listed as in the line of succession on ...

A Better Way on Presidential Succession March 2, 2007 Since Sept. 11, 2001, the speaker of the House has been required for security purposes to take government planes for official business.

Succession law begins with the Presidential Succession Act of 1792, which declared that should the office of the president become vacant, the VP, ...

Presidential succession following a chief executive’s demise, resignation or removal from office is not just a conceptual process. Since the start of the republic, ...

As legal scholar Akhil Amar, who had long studied the legalities of succession, told Congress during one hearing after 9/11, “The current Presidential succession Act, 3 U.S.C. section 19, is in ...

Feinstein, 89, also would be third in the line of presidential succession, behind the vice president and the speaker of the House. But she has decided that the pro tem position is not for her.

The Presidential Succession Act should be amended to remove the Speaker of the House and the pres­ident pro tempore of the Senate from the line of succession; ...