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OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
6. I was replying to your post that "Impeachment is the appropriate remedy". The votes aren't there for
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 02:36 PM
Dec 2018

impeachment.

Renew Deal

(81,859 posts)
7. They aren't there for the 25th amendment either
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 02:41 PM
Dec 2018

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.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days 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. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxv

You'll have better luck with impeachment for cause than the mad king case.

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
8. I honestly believe neither option is a runner. I think the real benefit is 2 years of exposing the
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 02:59 PM
Dec 2018

criminality and the GOP's complicity, where the beating they got in 2018 will only grow bigger. If Trump goes before that, it allows Republicans to establish a new narrative amongst their gullible electorate.

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