So you think Trump won't be elected again in 2024. Wanna bet?

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(08-27-2022, 10:07 AM)GMDino Wrote: Interesting.

To swear HIM in she would have to step down and created a void to be filled, correct?  And once she stepped down would we not have to go through the entire succession field before Trump could be sworn in?

Could they swear him in while in prison?  No one says it has to happen where it does.  Johnson was sworn in o a plane after the JFK assassination.

Nope, there wouldn't be an issue thanks to the 20th Amendment. 

"if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified."

Presumably he would be in federal prison, so the current POTUS, Biden, could presumably ensure that Convict 45 is not able to have access to guests.

If it went to the courts and no decision was made before inauguration day, that part of the 20th Amendment applies and VP pardons him.