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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US presidential election: winning three times
Donald Trump has, according to his claims, been elected president twice by popular vote. However he has been denied the office due to claimed malfeasance of the state governments.
If his claims are ...
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Is there a Commonwealth nation that practices presidential form of government?
What I want to know is countries like Canada, Australia and India, which are all Commonwealth nations, have adopted a parliamentarian system like UK, is there a country that was Commonwealth nation ...
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Has the 25 Amendment Inability Clause ever been used to remove POTUS
The 25th Amendment of the US constitution is in the top of my mind. This deals with succession in the event of the resignation, death, or incapacity of POTUS. It also allows for temporary incapacity, ...
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Can the president of U.S. order troops to defend Taiwan under a Chinese invasion without Congress' approval?
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 put lots of restrictions of U.S. presidents for war declaring:
From Wikipedia:
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War ...
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Is it common for former presidential advisors to go by "Honorable"?
I saw this tweet today for an event headlined by "The Honorable Jared Kushner."
https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1569300032389619714
Kushner, a former senior advisor to Donald Trump,...
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Does a US President have to file any paperwork to declassify information?
The raid on ex-president Trump's residence recently produced evidence of his having Top Secret documents stored there without proper supervision.
Could Trump claim that these are actually declassified ...
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Is it common for a U.S. president to have official documents in their personal posession after they leave office?
The Florida home of a former U.S. president was recently raided because he was believed to have several documents that belong to the government in his home. Fifteen boxes of such papers were recovered ...
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Has there been research on the effects of the Presidential Records Act on White House decision making?
The Presidential Records Act mandates the preservation of all presidential records. At least in theory this means that the only Presidential communications immune from further scrutiny are phone calls ...
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What's the longest speech by a sitting US president?
According to History.com
Ironically, the man with the shortest White House tenure delivered the longest inaugural address in history, which may have been his undoing. This first presidential speech, ...
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Does the President have the means to prevent the Speaker of the House from visiting Taiwan?
President Biden suggested that visiting Taiwan was a bad idea and that's what his military advisors told him, but he still allowed Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, the third most powerful ...
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Why is the US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics called a "sherpa"?
CNBC's June 28, 2022 U.S.’s Russia sanctions architect Singh departs as Ukraine war drags on refers to the position as a sherpa in two places as quoted below.
The Sherpa people:
...are one of the ...
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Why can't President Biden sign an executive order on the gun laws he wants congress to pass?
U.S President Biden has been in the news, such as this article in Forth Worth Star-Telegram, appealing for tougher gun laws. The article says that
He repeated calls to restore a ban on the sale of ...
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How often do US Presidents sign laws while abroad?
From CNN, the Ukraine support package bill recently passed by congress will be flown to South Korea so that President Biden can sign it immediately Senate votes to pass $40 billion Ukraine aid package....
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How do the US President's and Secretary of Defense's power to deploy troops differ?
In the May 17, 2022 Late Night with Stephen Colbert clip Mark Esper's Loyalty To The Constitution Got Him Fired From The T**** Administration in a segment where he recounted several instances of ...
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Roughly how many US White House political vs non-political staff have a "radio which announces the President’s logistical movements"?
From Politico's May 9, 2022 How the Jan. 6 panel broke through Trump allies’ stonewalling:
Aides like Cassidy Hutchinson, a close adviser to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Ken ...
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