great question. now i'm wondering the same thing

[orleans]

Link to tweet

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1. No, quarantine doesn't prevent carrying out official duties

Hell, he's been phoning it in the whole time anyway.

[world wide wally]

2. I hope she spends all 14 days issuing Executive orders

[Captain Zero]

3. And appointing judges

have RBG resign, appoint Michele Obama

[MiniMe]

11. Would still have to go through the repuke Senate, so no

Mitchie held The Supreme Court Seat open for 293 days before he got Gorsuch

[Warpy]

4. Remember when Reagan got shot and was incapacitated for a while

his SOS Alexander Haig stepped in, elbowing the VP out of the way. I think that would be the likely case now, Pompeo pushing his way into the big chair and probably hoping they both have prolonged illnesses.

If they both peg out, then Pelosi gets the job,

[lunatica]

5. If I recall correctly General Haig stepped up but he wasn't

next in line. The VP was George Herbert Walker Bush.

[Warpy]

9. Hence "elbowing out of the way"

GHWB didn't like it and Haig was pilloried in the press when the GOP still pretended to care about things like chain of command back then.

These days, Pompeo would just take over and no one would care except Democrats.

[lunatica]

10. Anything is possible now!

Steven Miller could step up. Gah!

[davsand]

12. If Miller steps up the entire West Wing better wear masks!

[BadgerMom]

6. If this were to come close to happening,

my guess is that Republicans would ask Pence to resign and then name a new, healthy VP. I’ve wondered if naming Ford as VP will come back to bite us. That precedent might stand in the way of Pelosi stepping up in a Constitutionally mandated manner.

[not fooled]

7. he probably thinks he can't catch the virus

thinks of himself as some sort of ubermensch, no doubt.

Hence masks, self-quarantine, etc. all unnecessary.

[stopdiggin]

8. 2 parter. Quarentine is not legally required

Quarantine, in a legal sense, can be imposed by a health authority. No clue who would wield that authority in the case of the POTUS. But there's no law saying it must be. And, if we're talking protocol, guidelines or standards here ... Hello! Trump? And 2) An order of succession would require incapacitation .. and not mere quarantine/isolation.