The words 25th amendment or a politician’s ability to hold office should never come out the mouth of a democrat ever again
https://news.yahoo.com/25th-amendment-used-remove-trump-215814401.html
The words 25th amendment or a politician’s ability to hold office should never come out the mouth of a democrat ever again. With the state of our current president, they have no ground for them to stand on and that would be considered ableism. As you read through this article I would encourage you to not only see how this applies to Trump but maybe see it can apply to Biden?
This article goes on to indicate that Trump might not have the ability to “really govern”. It also talks about what people within Trump’s inner circle would say about him off and on the record. I’m glad everyone shows so much respect towards Joe Biden. Just remember Biden might not be able to “really govern” but at least he is “truly a nice guy”.
This article even confirms that it most likely could not be used against Trump because he is still “lucid and able to communicate”. The same can be cause about Biden but what individual is closer to needing the 25th amendment?
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What is the 25th Amendment?
Briefly, the 25th Amendment is intended to clarify what happens in the event of the president or vice president’s death, resignation or removal from office. It also outlines how an Oval Office vacancy should be filled if the president becomes disabled and cannot fulfill his or her duties.
What is Section 1?
The amendment’s first part states that if the president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president will then become president.
What is Section 2?
Section 2 details the process for filling a vice presidential vacancy. If there is no vice president, the president shall nominate someone to fill that vacancy. He or she will take office following confirmation by a simple majority from the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is Section 3?
Section 3 states that should the president inform Congress that he is unable to “discharge the powers and duties of his office,” the vice president will become acting president until the president is once again capable.
What is Section 4?
This is where things get a bit more complicated. Section 4 outlines what should happen in circumstances when the president is disabled but cannot or will not declare this fact. This might be the situation if the president is in a coma or his plane crashed, he is missing, the administration cannot communicate with him and no one knows whether he’s alive or dead.
According to Section 4, if the vice president and a majority of his cabinet say that the president is disabled and cannot “discharge the powers and duties of his office,” then the vice president becomes president.
but that the president’s inability to “really govern” is testified to on a daily basis by his Cabinet.
“Read the things that these people, members of his inner circle, his personally selected appointees, say daily through anonymous quotations to the press. (And I assure you they say worse off the record.) They have no respect for him, indeed they seem to palpate with contempt for him, and to regard their mission as equivalent to being stewards for a syphilitic emperor,” Douthat wrote.
He believes that commentators like Douthat and Cohen might think Trump is nuts and unfit for the office, but says that the fact that he’s still lucid and able to communicate would make problematic the use of Section 4 as a means for removing him from office.
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