Posted on 09/08/2018 3:35:57 PM PDT by Jyotishi
The US Constitution provides instructions for how to remove a president from office if they are unfit to do their job—gravely wounded, for example, or mentally unstable. The instructions were ratified as an amendment in 1967, after John F. Kennedy's assassination. Until that point, the Constitution just vaguely referred to the fact that a president could be removed for "Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of said Office."
When can the 25th amendment be invoked for an unfit president?
Whenever the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet are ready to do so. One anonymous "senior official" wrote in a New York Times opinion piece https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html that Cabinet members were afraid of "precipitat[ing] a constitutional crisis" by invoking the amendment, and instead chose to lie to the president and disobey him instead.
But invoking the 25th amendment would not be a constitutional crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_crisis , a problem in government that the Constitution cannot solve. Rather, the 25th amendment is a part of the constitution that gives explicit instructions for how to remove a president who is unfit to serve.
It does not say when a president is unfit to serve, though. It doesn't call out specific illnesses, mental or otherwise, or suggest tests of any sort https://vitals.lifehacker.com/the-montreal-cognitive-assessment-doesnt-prove-or-dispr-1822137490 . It just says this, under section 4:
"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, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."
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Ain’t gonna happen.
Pence should announce that if he were president he would do everything he could to make homosexuality a punishable crime. That would put an end to this stupid talk of the 25th amendment.
If ever the 25th was needed, it was ten years ago.
So, Pence and a majority of Executive Department heads have to initiate it. I don't see that happening. Keep blindly casting about, Lefties.
Try it.
Never gonna happen.
More liberal anti-Trump fantasizing.
Just because someone doesn’t agree with the president’s policy positions doesn’t make him unfit.
I see that the anonymous NYT article was a coordination with this movement. .
Everything is coordinated with them, ie they release what they want to release
I see that the anonymous NYT article was a coordination with this movement. .
Everything is coordinated with them, ie they release what they want to release
President Mike “Shock the Gay Away” Pence would certainly be a big hit with Trump’s enemies LOL.
On a serious note, the people behind this have to get rid of Pence, too.
If Obama wasn’t thrown out under the 25th, Pres. Trump is untouchable.
So, Pence and a majority of Executive Department heads have to initiate it.
Do these people think that the crowds of “Deplorables” at President Trumps rallies will just go home and calmly accept the nullification of the election of 2016? I realize that they (and we) maybe are living in an echo chamber, but I don’t think such a thing would go down well.
The Left wouldn’t like, for one second, what would happen if they pulled that stunt would be my best guess.
Comments?
why all this talk about the 25th? Isn’t there supposed be a blue wave? Seems alot less cumbersome to impeach. Are they doubting something?
Step 1) Get rid of Trump
Step 3) Get rid of Pence
But they won't ever get to that Step 3 because they will be interrupted by Step 2 "Rivers of Blood".
“News” is approaching the same depravity and lunacy as “Fan Fiction”
These people are just writing these things as mental masturbation. Not having a real job will do that.
An old Gawker property.
Tell ya what weenie leftists; all you have to do is run for President, go through the grueling process of campaigning, all the debates, and find a way to fund it. Then win.
If you win, then and only then, will you have a leg to stand on. We don’t put people through that process then pull a low blow fast one on them just because we don’t like the way they run the country.
If this process is unacceptable to you leftists you have two options; change the system or leave. I would greatly prefer it if you left my country that you hate so much.
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