windywave wrote:
AlanShearer wrote:
However, I don't believe there is anything preventing a former president from serving in the House of Representatives. If President Obama was elected to the House of Representatives and became Speaker of the House he could conceivably assume the presidency if both the president and vice president were incapacitated. Pretty long shot but stranger things have happened. I'm curious about that. It's my understanding that both Kissinger and Albright, as naturalized citizens, would not have been eligible to assume the office under the line of succession, even though both were technically fourth in line as secretaries of state.
No the 12th makes them ineligible so everyone else moved up one slot
ETA nevermind the 12th is VP only
You're right, the 12th doesn't apply, but I think the point I was making was different.
Someone had brought up the possibility of Obama serving again as President through the line succession. Even though he's ineligible for the VP spot, he's not ineligible for other positions in that line. But just because he conceivably could be elected or appointed to a position in the line of succession doesn't necessarily mean he could bypass the 22nd Amendment's restrictions.
As I mentioned, Kissinger and Albright were in the line, and while not tested in the courts, it was generally understood that they wouldn't have been able to assume the office on the off chance that the VP, Speaker, and President Pro Tem couldn't.