Under the Constitution, the president-elect MUST be sworn in precisely at noon, January 20th. The vice president-elect is usually sworn in just before.
No. One president at a time.
US Constitution, Amendment XX, Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President....
No. The president-elect becomes president at 12 (noon) regardless of circumstances.
The President-Elect and Vice-President-Elect, or the reelected President and Vice President, are sworn in on Inauguration Day, the 20th of January following the election, at noon Eastern Standard Time (1700 UTC). Inauguration Day was changed from 4 March to 20 January in 1933 with the ratification of the 20th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. The first time Inauguration Day was 20 January was the second inaugurations of both President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice President Garner in 1937.
The President-Elect and Vice-President-Elect take the Oath of Office and begin their terms on the 20th of January following their election at 12 noon, as directed by the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment didn't specify a time zone, but it always takes place at noon of Washington's local standard time, which in January is American Eastern Standard Time (UTC - 5 hours).
The U.S. Constitution says that the president must take the presidential oath and be sworn in; usually, it is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who administers the oath. If a president is re-elected, he still has to take the oath of office a second time.
The ceremony begins at 10:30 CST, so President Obama will be sworn in at approximately 11:00 A.M. CST.
A person must resign from the Senate before becoming president because an individual cannot hold both offices at the same time.
No. The US Constitution specificaly states that the sitting president's term of office ends at noon on 20th January. The president-elect may take the oath of office anywhere he happens to be just before noon, and be sworn in by almost anyone serving in some sort of official capacity. No emergency can delay that process.
*** I don't understand how the above answer relates to the question. And American soldiers don't "waste their time". I know many who would be saddened and angered by such a statement. Barack is our president-elect (he is not sworn in the presidency yet). He will be our next president because he won the 2008 election.
He is sworn in & is acting President until that time.