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We are all going to need to know this stuff this week:
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
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.
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.
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dalton99a
(81,635 posts)unless he's caught on camera literally grabbing pussy or repeatedly peeing on the White House lawn.
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)with "I am 45s sock puppet" placards on his front and back.
Ryan is letting him remain in charge of the House Investigation despite this, and people think impeachment or the 25th are going to happen any time soon?
Not to mention.
MITCH FUCKING MCCONNELL.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Obviously laying out the case for removal.
Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.
Instead, seventy-some days in and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced. In a matter of weeks, President Trump has taken dozens of real-life steps that, if they are not reversed, will rip families apart, foul rivers and pollute the air, intensify the calamitous effects of climate change and profoundly weaken the system of American public education for all. His attempt to de-insure millions of people who had finally received healthcare coverage and, along the way, enact a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich has been put on hold for the moment. But he is proceeding with his efforts to defang the governments regulatory agencies and bloat the Pentagons budget even as he supposedly retreats from the global stage.
These are immensely dangerous developments that threaten to weaken this countrys moral standing in the world, imperil the planet and reverse years of slow but steady gains by marginalized or impoverished Americans. But, chilling as they are, these radically wrongheaded policy choices are not, in fact, the most frightening aspect of the Trump presidency.
What is most worrisome about Trump is Trump himself. He is a man so unpredictable, so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, so untethered to reality that it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation. His obsession with his own fame, wealth and success, his determination to vanquish enemies real and imagined, his craving for adulation these traits were, of course, at the very heart of his scorched-earth outsider campaign; indeed, some of them helped get him elected. But in a real presidency in which he wields unimaginable power, they are nothing short of disastrous. ...
http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=6c744814-6159-4f2b-9d41-45d08bec403f
Thank you for posting this, L. Coyote. I'll be watching for the rest.
brooklynite
(94,757 posts)I see no sign that VP Pence or the Cabinet are going to turn on Trump in the near future.
MainSt99
(30 posts)With Pence, there's less chance of nuclear holocaust. Unfortunately, Pence will probably be much more adept at pushing a Far Right agenda through Congress. But, as a threat to life on Earth, Trump must be removed. Invoke the 25th Amendment, Section 4.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And, I imagine everyone around him feeds his enormous ego all day long, perpetuating the disorder.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)It is like The Walking Dead version of impeachment. Every 90 days or so Trump could petition to be returned to the Presidency. It requires 2/3rds in both Houses of Congress to sustain even after getting the majority of the Cabinet to agree to it. It is not going to happen.
Threat of impeachment is the best course of action if the Republicans get to that point. It could be done quietly with Trump given an out (health reasons). Side deal being that the investigations will be dropped. Would the Democrats want that deal? The approach would strengthen Pence and the VP nominee. We would at least get the most unqualified man in history out of the Oval Office. On the other hand we are replacing him with a laundried theocrat.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Will be special?