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longweekend58 wrote on Jan 24 th, 2017 at 5:43pm: Panther wrote on Jan 24 th, 2017 at 4:46pm: longweekend58 wrote on Jan 24 th, 2017 at 4:27pm: Yes, the 25th amendment makes Cabinet able to remove a sitting president from office due to inability to perform the duties. Now try and work out how a President as uncontrollable, thin-skinned and unqualifed as Trump might be considered 'unfit to continue'.
Not that hard to imagine and btw, this was not my idea but rather that of a senior constitutional lawyer.
So, it is another way to protect the world from this crazy bastard. Source: The United States Constitution Amendment XXV (1967) 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. Not an interpretation, but the actual law......read it.......you're absolutely wrong. It's temporary, not permanent. Damn, you really are stupid. It states that the PResident can be removed if unfit for office until he becomes 'fit' again. If Trump were removed under that provision he would remain 'unfit' as he is incapable of change. And once again, this is a constitutional authority speaking, not someone with access to Google.
Unless your unnamed "Constitutional Authority" is the SCOTUS, they have no Constitutional Authority, or the authority to have any final say on Constitution matters. All they have is an opinion, which weighs no more, no less than ours....period.
So, Damn.... if I'm stupid, you're irreversibly brain dead .....nowhere in this Amendment does it provide for a "removal" of a President!
Any replacement is only temporary, an acting President, unless the incapacity is so grave it is beyond being overcome (as in death...Trump's good, but...), which has never happened. Whenever the President determines he is fit is fit to return to duty, he will return replacing the acting President.
This is, & was, the reasoning behind this 25th Amendment (do your research), not "removal" of a sitting President, & if necessary the Supreme Court will have the very final say, for the Supreme Court is the only body/group that can interpret the Constitution with any final authority.....Not Congress, not the VP, not any Cabinet, not any person. So if the Supreme Court wishes to decide that any Amendment reads any way it wishes it to read, it can, & nothing short of insurrection culminating in a firing squad can stop them.
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