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Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker
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The speaker being the third in line to the presidency but not needing to be an elected representative is such a blatant loophole it feels like it's been left there as a just in case someone wants to do a proper coup someday
How does it work with non-citizen though?
I suppose theoretically he'd be skipped, but in reality they'd just waive that because he has Super Citizen status
maybe they'd give him an "temporary" title like Interim Executive Administrator or CEO of America
Retroactive "Founder" just like Tesla
He'd be skipped over because he's not natural born.
Which would mean second in line goes to the position that's by tradition given to the longest serving member of the Senate majority party, i.e. one of the oldest.
The speaker is an elected representative though
They are elected in the sense that the House representatives vote on confirming a nomination, but there is nothing to stipulate the nominee has to be a representative. That has just been the precedent so far.
The US Speaker of the House is as democratically elected as any Prime Minister.
The same is true for the British PM and I would guess many other PMs.
I thought so too, but no. It seems that way because the House traditionally chooses an elected rep to serve in the role, but you don't actually need to be a member of the House to be Speaker, the House can choose whoever they want to serve in that role
They almost definitely won't do this for Musk, but they could
not in this scenario