During the hearings regarding whether or not to impeach President Trump, the vice president has mostly stayed out of the spotlight. But if everything goes the way Democrats hope, with Trump removed from office, Vice President Mike Pence would end up in the center of, well, everything, as president of the United States of America.
If Trump is impeached and removed from office, then Pence would be immediately sworn in as president. That’s what happened in 1974, when Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in after President Richard Nixon resigned in the face of impeachment proceedings. And there’s no way around the fact that Pence would become the commander in chief, thanks to the 25th Amendment.
“There’s no provision in the Constitution for a special election for president,” says Kimberly Wehle, a law professor and author of How to Read the Constitution — and Why. “There’s a chain of succession pending the next presidential election.”
View the complete November 22 article by Celia Darrough on the Mic.com website here.