January 20 is observed as Inauguration Day due to the 20th Amendment. Occasionally, Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Inauguration Day, but the two dates are not directly related.

What time does Trump officially become president on Inauguration Day? The 20th Amendment gets even more specific than outlining the date on which power transfers from one president to another. In ...

Politics Why is Inauguration Day on Jan. 20? It's because of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. If not for the 20th Amendment, President-elect Donald Trump wouldn't be sworn in until March.

The 20th Amendment also lays out a backup if a president-elect dies or hasn't been chosen by Jan. 20. So far, that procedure has never been used.

Virginia was the tenth State to ratify the Federal Constitution.† Last week it was the first State to ratify what is likely to become the 20th Amendment to that Constitution. Prodded into speedy ...

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have found 2 0 apparent violations in the past two years of the Johnson Amendment, a law that prohibits church leaders from intervening in political campaigns.

In accordance with the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, Donald Trump will take office at noon on Jan. 20th. His successor will take office at noon Jan. 20, 2029.

How the 20th Amendment dealt with presidential succession The 20th Amendment provided that if the president-elect died before taking the oath, the vice president-elect shall assume the office of ...

The editorial board of a major New Jersey newspaper started the year off with an anti-Second Amendment screed, decrying the right to keep and bear arms as a “curse” perpetuated by a ...

For example, far from “suddenly siding” with the National Rifle Association in 2008 about the meaning of the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v.