.HayesBrown: The oldest senators are put in line for the presidency. That seems like a problem.
Now, you could ask why I’m singling out the president pro tempore when, in the line of succession, it falls after speaker of the House. After all, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, is herself 81 years old — and her top deputies are about the same age. But that’s a quirk ofPelosi’s predecessor, Rep. Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, was, making him the youngest speaker in more than 100 years.
The president pro tempore is the only role listed in the Constitution that all but requires its holder to be one of the oldest members of Congress under the current system. That’s a terrible system to have in place when there are already concerns aboutif an attack were to incapacitate or kill the president, vice president and speaker.
Right now, the role is both a sinecure that has little authority and a crucial insurance against the collapse of government during a catastrophe. That’s entirely untenable. Feinstein’s current health issues illustrate that either the job’s qualifications need to change, or the presidential order of succession does — or both. It would be gambling with the fate of our republic to leave things as they stand.
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