Constitutional continuity versus political cost: staff and institutional actors move to invoke Section Three/25th‑Amendment procedures to preserve governance and avoid rash action — balancing legality, legitimacy, and electoral/political consequences.
Constitutional continuity versus political cost: staff and institutional actors move to invoke Section Three/25th‑Amendment procedures to preserve governance and avoid rash action — balancing legality, legitimacy, and electoral/political consequences.
Events in This Arc
Outside the White House, a fatigued Leo shares a small, human moment with his secretary before flipping into operational mode. He orders Charlie to freeze all nonessential executive paper and …
As the White House convulses after Zoey's abduction, Leo quietly organizes a surgical downsizing of the Oval Office — freezing nonessential paperwork and summoning a judge — while the President …
In a terse, procedural midnight ritual the Oval Office converts private catastrophe into constitutional order. Speaker Glenallen Walken resigns his House seat, signs the resignation in front of witnesses, and …