Questions tagged [president]
Questions related to the office of President, a politician who is the leader of a country or a division or part of a country. Use this tag with the relevant country tag.
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Does running a presidential campaign not distract incumbent POTUS from the job?
It seems to me that every US president who spends the last year of his presidency campaigning to be re-elected must have much less time to do the current job.
Has the extent to which it is true ever ...
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Can the democratic party kick Biden without his consent and replace him? [duplicate]
Can the democratic party kick Biden without his consent and replace him? Some people are discussing whether Biden should step down so that the Democrats have a higher chance of winning the election, ...
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Presumed Immunity and Unquestioned Motivations
I’ve been trying to understand the ramifications of the recent US Supreme Court ruling. As I understand it…
Core Constitutional duties have absolute immunity
Official acts have presumed immunity (...
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Can the US president legally kill at will?
Following the ruling by SCOTUS in Trump v. United States (2024) that Presidents enjoy absolute immunity for their exclusive powers and presumptive immunity for their remaining official acts, I have ...
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How can Joe Biden be removed as candidate for the election? [duplicate]
Just an hour into Thursday night’s presidential debate, Andrew Yang — a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate — called on Biden to step aside.
“Guys, the Dems should nominate someone else — before it’...
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What's the (evidence) basis for calling Robert Kennedy Jr. a "fake anti-vaxxer"? [closed]
According to CNN Kennedy's campaign has been attacking Trump on his association with Fauci (more or less implying that Trump has been Fauci's puppet, as I understand--n.b. that seems to go hand in ...
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Does Biden or any other US president besides Trump have a common nickname in China?
Today I learned that in China Trump is (derisively) called "Comrade Nation Builder"--the nation referred to is not the US though, but China, in the sense/claim that Trump has built up ...
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How many of Trump's trials can finish by election day? [closed]
This isn't a crystal ball question - I understand that there could be new "revelations" or legal stalls - either from the standard pace of justice or legal maneuvering. In the fastest-case-...
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Could the POTUS cancel any amount of student debt without approval of the US Congress?
Recently, Biden's Administration is approving $6.1 billion in student debt cancellation for 317,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes., but I haven't seen the Senate or House ever voted on ...
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What happens if the US President-elect is sent to prison before assuming power?
This is a question about the period between November 5 and January 20 in an election year.
If a presidential candidate wins the election but is sent to prison on November 6, say, would they stay in ...
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How was President Gerald Ford appointed instead of just succeeding his role?
I’ve heard it said that one of the reasons President Gerald Ford was hated, was because he was appointed President, instead of being elected. And it’a also said he was the only president appointed.
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Who were Sarkozy's "high-powered advisers with ethnic Russian backgrounds"?
RFERL wrote in 2008:
By throwing his weight behind Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's calls for an OSCE summit in 2009 to discuss a new "security architecture" for Europe, Sarkozy ignored ...
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What qualities are needed for becoming the President? [closed]
How to win presidential elections? Is it necessary to have fame? Does it require a PhD?
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Why do Americans consider Biden to be too old for president, but not Trump?
A number of polls show that Americans by and large consider Joe Biden to be too old to be president.
For example, an Associated Press poll asked
Do you think each of the following is too old to ...
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What laws did Duda veto?
Politico:
Duda, originally a European Parliament backbencher from the Law and Justice (PiS) party before becoming president in 2015, has long been loyal to the nationalist party.
Tusk and his allies ...