Obama to SCOTUS ???

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@Marley23

[Ghost of William Howard Taft]

MMM, Frankfurter…

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Thanks for the chuckle.

[friedo]

@muldoonthief

I’m probably being whooshed, but in the case of Obama leaving office for any reason, Nancy Pelosi would not become the new VP. Biden would become President, and then nominate a new VP who would require Senate approval.

A Vice-President-designate actually requires the approval of the entire Congress (the only Presidential appointment with such a requirement, IIRC.)

The 25th Amendment is the relevant thingamajig.

[Captain_Amazing]

@Marley23

People often said this about Bill Clinton, but it’s worth noting that people from Security Council nations (like the U.S.) can’t be secretary-general.

I’m not sure that’s true. Do you have a citation for that?

[Marley23]

@Captain_Amazing

I’m not sure that’s true. Do you have a citation for that?

I thought this was a rule, but I guess it’s just tradition.

From a 2005 article on Bill Clinton:

The goal may not be realistic, he acknowledged, but he then went on to analyze all the factors in minute detail, as though he were preparing for a political campaign: whether a U.S. president would ever see fit to back him, for one, and what it would take to persuade other nations to bend the long-standing tradition that the top job does not go to someone from a country with permanent status on the U.N. Security Council.

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When Taft was practising as a lawyer, he was at a country railway station. He inquired about the trains, and was told that there was an express that would come through, but wouldn’t stop, unless there was a large party to pick up.

He told the station-master to signal for the express to stop.

When the train stopped and he got on by himself, he explained that he was the large party.

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