If Cheney AND Bush are impeached, then who becomes President?

Question

I want Bush to be impeached but it would be scary to have Cheney as President....instead can Cheney be impeached or can both of them be impeached at the same time...

Answer 1

Impeachment is permitted by the Constitution for high crimes or misdemeanors. So in order to impeach them both, the House would have to find that each has engaged in a high crime or misdemeanor in order to impeach both. Then they have to be tried by the Senate in order to be removed (of course the Senate would have to find that each had committed a high crime or misdemeanor in order to do this). If both are removed from office, the next in the line of succession is the Speaker of the House. At this moment Dennis Hastert, after January, Nancy Pelosi.

Answer 2

If both the President and the Vice President are unable to serve, the next in succession is Speaker of the House. Right now that is Dennis Hastert.

When the next session of Congress starts, the House of Representatives will vote for a new Speaker. Since the Democrats will have more seats at that time, they will most likely elect a Democrat to be Speaker, and it is very likely they will elect Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi is currently the Minority Leader - that is, the Representatives in the party in the minority (the Democrats, before this election) elected her as their leader, the last time they voted.

But - if the Vice President leaves office first, the President can nominate a new Vice President, to be confirmed by Congress. So if Cheney is removed from office or dies, but Bush remains for a time as President, we can get a replacement Vice President. Then, if Bush is removed from office or dies, the new Vice President would become President.

This is what happened in 1973-74. Spiro Agnew resigned as Vice President, Gerald Ford was nominated and confirmed as the new Vice President, President Richard Nixon resigned, and Gerald Ford became President of the United States.

Answer 3

The Speaker of the House would then become president, which would be Nancy Pelosi under a new Democratic controlled Congress. Dennis Hastert is the current Speaker of the House till the Democrats take over.

However Bush would probably replace Cheney first with someone else as vice president and that person would become president. I believe that is how Ford became president. Ford was Speaker of the House however I think Nixon replaced Spiro Agnew as Vice President with Ford, then Ford pardoned Nixon when Ford became president. If Nixon hadn't resigned and replaced Agnew with Ford, he probably would have been found guilty and evicted from the presidency by a 2/3's vote. Without a non-guilty party as vice president he wouldn't have had someone to pardon him and probably would have ended up with a suspended jail sentence and fine like Spiro Agnew did.

The only time you would probably see the Speaker of the House immediately become president is if the president and vice president were both killed at the same time.

There is not more than one kind of impeachment as one person stated. Impeachment simply means that you bring the president to trial. If the president is found guilty by a 2/3's majority of Congress then he is evicted from office. No president has ever been evicted from office. The only two presidents to ever be impeached were Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. Nixon was never impeached, he left before impeachment proceedings began. Clinton was impeached, but was not evicted from office, neither was Andrew Johnson. Both Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were only about a vote shy from being evicted from office however.

Answer 4

If both the presidency and the vice presidency became vacant, the Speaker of the House of Representatives would become president under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.

Until noon on January 3, 2007, the Speaker of the House is Dennis Hastert. That is when the old Congress's term expires and the new one begins.

Nancy Pelosi is likely to become Speaker of the House beginning in 2007.

The odds of President Bush and Vice President Cheney being simultaneously impeached are about as low as my chances of getting a call from Britney Spears saying "I dumped K-Fed for you."

Answer 5

Actually it wouldn't happen at the same time. And the question would arise after Bush were removed from office who would become the vice president. IF Cheney hadn't picked a VP when he was removed from office the Speaker of the House becomes the President.

The time necessary for impeachment and removal would mean Nancy Pelosi probably. Now that should be a scary thought for you and Hillary both? Imagine that --Nancy Pelosi as a sitting President and Hillary wanting to run for President. Does Nancy just set aside or does Hillary back down? I can't see either one of those things happening.

Answer 6

You want this nation to go through, not one, but two Impeachments?

As a Democrat, a rabid one at that, and someone who truly hates all that Bush is, I do NOT want to see our country needlessly torn apart over partisan one-upmanship or to get even for Clinton.

Talk of impeachment is reckless and foolish (foolish being a nice word) and all of us (GOP and Dem.s) need to guard against it ever being used again as a political weapon against an unpopular president. I don't care what the GOP did in the past, that's the past, we need to move on and focus on getting this country moving forward, not wasting precious time on settling scores. The people voted to change direction, not to drive the country into the ditch.

As a Democrat and an American, I want this country to become a better place for us all, not just Democrats and impeachment will not accomplish this, it will do quite the opposite. Bush will be gone in two years and until then we can tough it out.

Answer 7

Bush's term in the white house is almost over, so it will take approximately that long to get him impeached, so that will not be worth it. I wish that for a change that we get a woman as president, so we can 3 personal days for pms. Nancy is very aggressive, we do need women in those kind of positions, because men sometimes think with their balls. And to the person that say that they were going to report you for giving just an opinion I would like to let them know that America is not Iraq, people have died for this freedom of speech that we all take for granted, I'm so happy to live in America then anywhere else in the world where I can say that I want Pelosi as president. long live the bitches.

Answer 8

What would you base you impeachment on?? It is really so sad at what some Americans have become and you say Bush & Cheney are bad??

Answer 9

There is more than one kind of impeachment. One they get impeached but stay in the white house. Two they get impeache dand are out of the white house. Then the Speaker of the House becomes president. they can impeach one or both.

Answer 10

while a President is impeached, that doesn't recommend they're faraway from place of work. Impeachment is unquestionably the act of accusing the President of a criminal offense, no longer easily removing him from place of work. Clinton replaced into impeached, yet remained President.