Listen live on the cspan radio viewnd visit cspan. Org to a playlist of Amy Coney Barretts legal views. Host a discussion on the continuity of government. Our guest is a lot professor at Michigan State. You wrote in the Washington Post friday morning that the law is clear about handling president ial illness, but it can get murky fast. Start with what is clear. Amendmentl, the 25th gives us clear procedures for transferring power to the president from the to the Vice President when he is unable to dispense duties or he is unconscious. The Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can make that transfer of power. Things get murky if the president challenges the declaration and get really problematic if the president and Vice President are both incapacitated because then we have a lot of gaps in our law. Host as you have watched this unfold since friday what concerns you the most right now . Well, i think, again, there is a murky area where the president might think that he is able
Gives us very clear procedures for transferring power from the president to the Vice President , when the president declares himself unable to discharge his unconscious,he is unable to declare himself unable , then the Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can make that declaration and transfer power. Things get murkier if the president contests the declaration by the vice thingsnt and cabinet and get really problematic if the president and the Vice President are both incapacitated. Because they are, we have a lot of gaps in our law. Host as you have watched this unfold since friday, what concerns you the most right now . Think, again, there is a murky area where the president might think that he is able and he is not. It is hard to know. We dont know exactly how the president is doing and what the side effects of his medication might be. He could be fine. The problem is that the president can be in pretty bad shape and still not incapacitated enough that the 25th amendment wo
Also coming up on the program 6 days of fighting dozens dead but now signs of compromise on the news government says its ready to discuss a cease fire in a going to occur. And defiant protesters continue their calls for justice over the gang rape and deaths of 2. 00 women in india. Welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump and his wife melania are in isolation off to testing positive for code 19 displaying mild symptoms of the virus a white house doctor said that trying received experimental antibodies and that he remains fatigued after the diagnosis how long the president s isolation is set to last all that depends on how unwell he becomes u. S. Health Authorities Say people miss self isolate for 10 days after a positive test and even longer if they present symptoms and even off of that trial might have to test negative twice in a row with those test on at least 24 hours apart the crucial question how is this going to affect the Election Campaign says all preannounced events
Market, they see the s p going up another 8 by year in based on vaccine optimism, apple is helping the dow and the overall market as well, david big reveal of new products including a new watch, the stock premarket is up three box, better than 2. 5 , we have ray wang back on the show he sees apple going to 150, it is now 118. Im going to show you amazon, the Accounting Firm deloitte expects on explosive 25 35 gain in online sales this holiday season, amazon is up 37. Seven weeks exactly to the election, heres the Campaign Schedule today, joe biden gets out of his house, theres a headline, heads to florida to address the hispanic vote, Top Democrats are worried that hes been playing it too safe, Bernie Sanders wants him to harden up his message and apparently he is listening, on monday called the president a climate arsonist, strong staff, who is writing his teleprompter, is he in control of his campaign . We will ask, big event at the white house. The president witnesses the signing of
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