FWD: Large Scale Replacements of House and Senate

[John Noble]

At 5:32 PM -0500 10/24/01, Sanford Levinson wrote:
>Let me suggest that the first thing we need to do, when contemplating
>suddenly thinkable catastrophes, is to return to the old Succession in
>Office Act, which would eliminate the truly stupid possibility that Dennis
>Hastert would become president and the truly insane possibility that Robert
>Byrd would (of course, before Jim Jeffords' switch, it would have been
>Strom Thurmond).  In addition to the stupidity of the current act, Akhil
>and Vik Amar have argued quite convincingly that it is unconstitutional to
>boot.

Who would it be under the old Act?

John Noble