Yale boys.....your plan to oust Pres. Trump, like many things Yale, depend on whores, backstabbers or traitors for completion. Neither VP Pence, nor the Cabinet Members thus far confirmed, have any of those tendencies. Sux to be you!
Yale?...Isn’t Yale that school named after Elihu Yale, the notorious slave trader?
Delusion runs deep
These authors are Yale Law students?!!!
How about forcibly removing those law students from Yale? You could probably get ‘em all on possession, at least; maybe on dealing too.
Back when I taught Jr High Constitution I framed the 25th amendment as the “Oh My God, What Do We Do Now” amendment.
After Eisenhower’s heart attacks, and Kennedy’s assassination (what if he hadn’t died and was mentally incapacitated ) and the reality brought home by the Cuban missile crisis that nuclear war could start and end in a quarter hour or so, there had to be a Constitutional mechanism to replace a disabled President. So they cobbled together the 25th. Knowing that most Presidents would be loath to give up power they had to come up with a way to remove (if even temporarily) a President without it looking like a coup. That’s why the decision is made by officials appointed by the President.
What these people are proposing is a coup d’etat while pretending to be loyal to a Constitution they likely see as fatally flawed.
Minor quibble about the article.
“In the more than two centuries during which Congress has had the opportunity to “provide” such an alternative body, they have opted not to do so.”
The 25th amendment was enacted in February of 1967, 50 years ago, not 2 centuries ago.
In theory we could take the malcontents who are set on our destruction and boil them in oil. In theory we could do likewise to the lying media members. And in theory President Trump could pardon us. Or his Attorney General could offer an immunity from prosecution deal.
Of course these are just theories too. And they are also food for thought. Right Time Magazine?
These Yale law students have failed hilariously to read the plain language of the amendment (emphasis mine):
“Whenever the Vice President AND a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments OR of such other body as Congress may by law provide...”
It’s an AND/OR clause! Even if Congress provided another body to evaluate the fitness of the President, they would still require the Vice President to consent to the decision as well. Without Mike Pence signing on, any such scheme would be D.O.A.
This is pitiful. These future lawyers are the example of the products coming from one of the “premier” law schools? No wonder our country is in such bad shape if these are examples of those working in our legal system. Of course we already have daily examples of such idiots with the liberal judges making rulings based on their liberal orthodoxy and not the law.