January 2025 presidency madness scenario: no Speaker by Jan. 20, the senior Senator = President Pro Tempore —-> President Grassley!
🗣️ Pinch of Salt 💬
Hypothetical, if the House cannot decide upon a Speaker before 12 Noon Jan. and the Electoral College Vote has not been tallied in Congress and certified, then what?
No Speaker of the House, so next in line is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate = usually the ranking member = will be Senator Charles E. Grassley!
Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S. Code Section 19)
In the link here to the Congressional discussions, it was noted that the Constitution has succession rules to follow when the presidency is vacant and there are Cabinet Officers in a President’s administration who can fill in.
In this upcoming Jan. 2025 scenario, there is no Certification of Trump by Jan. 20 Noon and a temporary officer needs to fill in temporarily.
+1 interesting comparison you made. I remember that too — some thought we might have had an acting president in R. Grennell for a short time during the 2021 post-election-steal crisis, and some people thought it was just simply Google and SIRI trying to troll everyone opposing the 2020 election steal and letting people have the idea that “White Hats” were running things through R. Grennell.
The Grassley Senate Pro Tempure scenario could be like a mirror, but be different in that this would be live on C-SPAN and there would be no hidden White Hats selection process . As dec3169 and JScholl17 pointed out, the Senate would vote for who would be their Senate Pro Tempore, covered by C-SPAN and Congressional Record for all to see.
Someone shared, I forgot who, that the Grennell thing was some Google employee posted it for fun.
Congress went with the Deep State steal scam in 2020, but at some levels of intelligence and military, high ranking officers did not recognize the steal and thus Trump was considered for national emergency purposes as Commander in Chief, despite the Byden steal.