BCAD faculty affiliate Eric Schickler was featured in POLITICO

Eric Schickler was quoted in POLITICO:

With the possibility that House Republicans could empower Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry to run the House temporarily amid its speakership crisis, another question loomed: Would the move put an acting speaker into the line of presidential succession?

“Speaker pro tem, even if authorized to act as if he were the speaker or with some of those powers, it’s still not the same,” Schickler said.

Schickler said that in the unlikely event that the president and vice president can’t serve, a court battle could ensue over who would become the leader of the country.

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