Vice President murders President

WI VP shot and killed the President, pointed a gun at Judge to get themselves sworn in and then pardoned themselves (this happening of Federal territory)
 
From constitution

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.


"except in Cases of Impeachment"
 
They'd be impeached barring a larger coup against congress to put loyalists in place there. Actual procedure can be improvised on the spot to fulfil this goal because procedure is the least important aspect of the whole thing, and everyone would hate the Vice President for this.
 

Asami

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The Vice President would have been killed by Secret Service long before then -- and even then, killing the President of the United States is, you know, a federal crime. There wouldn't be a single person in the US Government or Army who would obey him.
 
WI VP shot and killed the President, pointed a gun at Judge to get themselves sworn in and then pardoned themselves (this happening of Federal territory)

VP either:

1) If this is at a distance, the VP winds up looking like the sole Cowboy at an OK Corral of 50 Earp Brothers:eek:

OR

2) Gets physically swarmed under an avalanche of Secret Service and hauled away, while the Speaker of the House is run up in front of the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS and sworn in.

Let the conspiracy theories begin.:rolleyes:
 
This is exactly the type of thing that Impeachment was created for, despite the fact that it has mostly been used as a political tool OTL.
 
This is exactly the type of thing that Impeachment was created for, despite the fact that it has mostly been used as a political tool OTL.

Mostly? When has there ever been an Impeachment that was not a non-political tool? BTW? Impeachment IS constitutionally a political action. That's why its not done by SCOTUS. If an impeachable offense is executed by a very popular POTUS (Nixon was popular, not respected, and his crimes were politically targeted at his opposition with an opposition party in power in Congress), he's untouchable, as no US House will launch one short of some gross Manchurian Candidate or "blue collar" crime being committed. That's why we never saw anything happen with the Bay of Pigs or Iran-Contra (directed at Reagan).

Andrew Jackson was Impeached over his destroying the National Bank, said Impeachment being so unpopular that it was the only one ever reversed and expunged by the next Congress. Which is why in history you only hear about the next two.

Andrew Johnson was Impeached over his "violation" of the Cabinet Succession Act by firing SecWar Edwin Stanton. His being Impeached was more a matter of the North having the sense that a more pro-Confederate than was previously suspected politician was in the White House. Which is why they pushed it so hard despite that he was only several months from leaving office. He survived the Senate Trial by the sole vote of a Senator on his death bed brought in on a stretcher.

Everyone understood that the Cabinet Succession Act was grossly unconstitutional, and was only passed to clip Johnson's wings. Proof positive being that it was never enforced afterward Johnson left office (1) until the Supreme Court finally struck it down in 1927.

1) Sometimes POTUSes would inform a Cabinet officer that "Your resignation [size=-4](unoffered:p) is accepted".:D IIRC this happened to Rutherford B. Hayes' first SecNav when it was discovered that he had pocketed most of the US Navy's budget for "Naval Reconstruction".

3) Clinton's Impeachment being all about the country not having the decency to elect a Good Republican, Clinton's lack of moral decency giving his enemies what they couldn't get with $70,000,000, and the Checks and Balances provided by our Founding Fathers through the means of the voters getting their say in the next election. Which is exactly what they got with the GOP getting royally spanked in 1998.

Yes, on paper 1998 was an election that was mostly a wash. But in a Six Year Election the party out of power is supposed to rout the party in the White House, as the Dems did to Bush in 2006 and the GOP did to Obama in 2014.
 
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