US Constitutional Crises

Were their any avoided electoral crises that were averted or any possible ones that could arise from the wording or non-specificity that could be taken advantage of in the US Constitution or Amend? Presidential is preferred of course. I suppose succession without a Vice President could be a sticking point.
 
The incapacity provisions of the 25th amendment are very unclear if the Vice Presidnecy is vacant

Imagine a President incapacitated following a murder attept with no VP and the opposition controling the Speakership
 
Well, I think it was Cleveland whose AG fudged the law so they could borrow money from Morgan and pay the bills, otherwise they would have undergone a technical bankruptcy

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Grey Wolf
 
One question came up while we were doing the retrospective presidential elections - what if electors defied the law and cast their ballots for a constitutionally ineligible Presidential candidate (like the Socialist Workers Party candidates in 1972)? If those electors were chosen legally by the voters in November, they could not be replaced by the runners-up.

I guessed that the courts would probably rule that the electors had to vote for an eligible candidate regardless of what they pledged - but what if the state had provisions punishing faithless electors?
 
in addition to the usual ones about the 25th and the Succession Act, including the yet mentioned "What happens if both the President-elect and VP-elect die before they take office", an interesting notion was going about during the debt ceiling crisis that the ceiling itself was invalid under the 14th. If the negotiations had ended up going to the wall then you could have seen the White House and Treasury telling Congress to stick it and borrowing the money anyway.
 
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