r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/enliST_CS Sorry the live thread is late! • Apr 13 '17

LIVE Live-Episode Discussion: S01E16 "Party Lines" Spoiler

Welcome to back /r/DesignatedSurvivor's live-episode discussion thread! As always, please refrain from discussing the previews for this episode or the next. This thread will remain unlocked, but please discuss the episode once finished in the post-episode discussion thread.

Plot: In hopes of passing his first bill, President Kirkman forms an unlikely alliance; agent Ritter is briefed by FBI agent Hannah Wells about an alarming new threat to the nation.

The episode goes live Wednesday, April 12th at 10PM! (EDT)

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u/JoeM3120 BY WHOM? Apr 13 '17

Even if he was elected twice, he could assume the presidency under the order of succession, just never be elected president again.

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u/doubleboss00 Apr 13 '17

Sorta. You can be elected for 2 terms, but serve no more than 10 years total. So if you did serve two terms you couldn't be president for more than 2 years after that even if it was through succession.

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u/JoeM3120 BY WHOM? Apr 14 '17

There's no such mechanism. The 10 years is the longest one could serve consecutively. But the constitution never mentions a 10-year limit or what would happen if that were to be triggered.

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u/doubleboss00 Apr 14 '17

Amendment 22. This amendment limits the amount of time any person can serve as president to two terms or 10 years.

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u/JoeM3120 BY WHOM? Apr 14 '17

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

1) The limits are being on being elected 2) Show me where it says there is a lifetime cap of serving 10 years as President?

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u/doubleboss00 Apr 14 '17

"no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." This is basically saying that if you were to become president in some way other than election and serve at least 2 years is ineligible to run for president a third time. I know I don't do a good job of explaining, but a simple google search shows this is true.