Presidential Disability:
What happens when the president is disabled or dies?\xa0 What about when there's no vice president?\xa0 Fordham Conversations host John Rogan moderated a panel at Fordham Law School about the 25th Amendment and what would happen if a president wasn\u2019t able to perform his or her powers and duties.\xa0 The discussion was between Fordham Law Professor John Feerick and Professor Joel Goldstein of Saint Louis University School of Law. \xa0
Feerick wrote an article in the Fordham Law Review on presidential succession that was published a month before the Kennedy assassination.\xa0 That article helped guide the drafting of the 25th Amendment. \xa0Goldstein has studied the 25th Amendment extensively\u2014the history that preceded it, its drafting and its uses.\xa0 He\u2019s perhaps that nation\u2019s leading authority on the vice presidency. \xa0
The discussion was held at Fordham Law School to mark the 50th anniversary of the 25th Amendment's ratification.