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The Constitution’s 25th Amendment does provide a legal pathway to remove a sitting president deemed “unable to discharge the powers and duties” of the office, but the mechanism in Section 4 has never ...
Congress is the only federal actor with the constitutional authority to set the date for choosing presidential electors and therefore to change the day of the presidential election; the President alon...
No U.S. president has been convicted of treason in U.S. federal courts, and treason convictions at the federal level have been rare — fewer than 40 federal prosecutions with even fewer convictions, an...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment’s Section 4—never fully tested in court—has become the focal point of scholarly debate over whether its use should be broadened to check “unfit” presidents or narrowed to gu...
The Twenty-Second Amendment, which bars any person from being elected president more than twice, rests on a post‑World War II reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms and was ratified in 1951 af...
The 22nd Amendment’s plain text bars anyone from being “elected to the office of the President more than twice,” which, by many mainstream accounts, prevents a president who already won two elections ...