Pres Succession Line Now Includes Suprem e Court

“Presidential Succession Line Now Includes Supreme Court
(2003-07-01) -- The Supreme Court today announced that it had added itself to the line of succession for the presidency.

"Constitutionally, you have the president, the vice president and then the Supreme Court," according to a ruling co-written by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor. "If something incapacitating were to befall the president and vice president, all nine justices would become a ruling body called the Supreme Junta."

The Court also ruled that it would serve as the "sole arbiter in determining whether the president is incapacitated."

In order to maintain the constitutional balance of powers, Supreme Junta rulings could be overturned only by orders from Congressman Dick Gephardt, D-MO.

Before today's ruling, the third person in the line of succession was Alexander Haig.

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