Lame duck president

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Political term

• Causes

  Result from term limits, planned retirement, or electoral losses.

• Influence

  Often seen as having less influence with other politicians due to their limited time left in office.

• Definition

  An elected official whose successor has already been elected or will be soon.

• Freedom of Action

  Can make decisions that exercise standard powers with little fear of backlash, such as issuing executive orders, pardons, or other controversial edicts.

• Impact on Uncompleted Projects

  May fall to the wayside as influence diminishes.

Timeline

• Joe Biden's Administration, in its 'lame duck' phase, authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russia, a decision seen as a major provocation and increasing the danger of World War III. (Source: Document 52358156-7927-4d55-a00e-cb027219bb2b)

  Undated

Lame duck (politics)

In politics, a lame duck or outgoing politician is an elected official whose successor has already been elected or will be soon. Outgoing politicians are often seen as having less influence with other politicians due to their limited time left in office. Conversely, a lame duck is free to make decisions that exercise the standard powers with little fear of backlash, such as issuing executive orders, pardons, or other controversial edicts. Lame duck politicians result from term limits, planned retirement, or electoral losses, and are especially noticeable where political systems build in a delay between the announcement of results and the taking of office by election winners. Even at the local level, politicians who do not seek re-election can lose credibility and influence. Uncompleted projects may fall to the wayside as their influence diminishes.

Web Search Results

• Ask the Expert: The history of lame-duck presidents

  Here, he answers questions about the history of lame-duck presidents in the US and what it suggests about how President Biden could spend his final days.

• Lame duck (politics) - Wikipedia

  The discontent with the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela saw the opposition being elected to hold the majority in the National Assembly of Venezuela "National Assembly (Venezuela)") for the first time since 1999 following the 2015 parliamentary election.#cite_note-NYTmuzzle-29) As a result of that election, the lame-duck National Assembly consisting of United Socialist officials filled the Supreme Tribunal "Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)") (supreme court) with allies.#cite_note-NYTmuzzle-29)#cite_note-30) Into early 2016, the Supreme Tribunal alleged that voting irregularities occurred in the parliamentary elections and stripped four Assembly members of their seats, preventing an opposition supermajority in the National Assembly which would be able to challenge President Maduro.#cite_note-NYTmuzzle-29) The Assembly nevertheless swore in the members in question, in response to which the Supreme Court ruled that the Assembly was in contempt of court and in violation of the constitutional order.#cite_note-31) The Supreme Tribunal then began to approve multiple actions performed by Maduro and granted him more powers#cite_note-NYTmuzzle-29) and later stripped the National Assembly of legislative powers, and took those powers for itself; which meant that the Supreme Tribunal might have been able to create laws, causing the 2017 constitutional crisis.#cite_note-alarm-32)

• LAME DUCK Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com

  a lame-duck president. (modifier) designating a term of office after which the officeholder will not run for re-election. “Collins English Dictionary

• Lame Duck Sessions (1940-Present) - Senate.gov

  * SENATORS- [x] * Former Senators * ABOUT THE SENATE- [x] | 113 113th | Nov 12-Dec 16, 2014 | Nov 12-Dec 12, 2014 | Defense authorization, appropriations, nominations, and extension of tax cuts | | 111 111th | Nov 4-Dec 22, 2010 | Nov 15-Dec 22, 2010 | Judge Porteous impeachment, New START treaty, appropriations, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' and extension of tax cuts | | 106 106th | Nov 14-Dec 15, 2000 | Nov 13-Dec 15, 2000 | Appropriations and other legislation | | 096 96th | Nov 12-Dec 16, 1980 | Nov 12-Dec 16, 1980 | Budget, appropriations, and domestic legislation | | 083 83rd | Nov 8-Dec 2, 1954 | did not meet | Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy | ### SENATORS * Former Senators ### ABOUT THE SENATE

• Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term ...

  Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term Elections | The American Presidency Project Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term Elections **President's Job Approval Percentage (Gallup) As of:****President's Party****Seat Change, President's Party** Image 2Image 3: House Seats gained or lost by President's Party as function of seats up for reelectionImage 4Image 5 • A "lame-duck" mid-term (Congressional) election is one that occurs when the incumbent President is constitutionally prohibited from seeking re-election in the next scheduled presidential election. • 1934 — 1946 & 1998 — 2022 Congressional seat gain/loss; all years Senate seats to defend, by _The American Presidency Project_ "Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term Elections." Santa Barbara, CA: University of California.