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2021 Angry Robot edition
No — based on the reporting provided, Section 4 of the 25th Amendment has not been invoked against President Donald Trump today; the record in these sources shows only discussion and advocacy about in...
Congress and the courts do not have a simple, unilateral mechanism to “start” or force a Section 4 25th Amendment removal; the Amendment’s written process centers on the Vice President and a majority ...
has clear constitutional tools to "end" a president’s term or bar a former president from future office— with conviction, and the ’s incapacity procedures—but both paths have high thresholds and polit...
The 25th Amendment creates both voluntary and involuntary mechanisms to transfer presidential power: Section 3 allows a president to temporarily cede duties, while Section 4 permits the vice president...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment does not permit Congress acting alone to remove a president; Section 4 creates a multi-step process that begins with the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or “su...
Article IV (Section 4) of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment establishes a four‑step, legally detailed but politically fraught procedure for transferring presidential power when the president is allegedly “un...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that "the President" has been handed a formal letter to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment; past public efforts to press the amendment involved lette...
If the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, the vice president immediately assumes the powers and duties of the presidency as acting president while the...
The Prime Minister can be removed through a small set of political and constitutional mechanisms: loss of parliamentary confidence, defeat or displacement by their own party, mass ministerial resignat...
The Constitution’s primary mechanism for dealing with a president who is mentally unfit is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which allows voluntary transfer of power under Section 3 and a forced, Cabinet-le...