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The evidence shows multiple plausible answers depending on how one defines “dominate.” Recent sources most commonly point to the Democrats’ control of both chambers during the 117th Congress (January ...
There are three distinct legal and constitutional mechanisms by which a sitting president can be removed from office: impeachment and conviction by Congress, involuntary removal under the 25th Amendme...
The two removal routes answer different problems: , while the 25th Amendment is a constitutional incapacity mechanism designed for temporarily or permanently transferring authority when a president ca...
Conviction in a Senate impeachment trial requires the concurrence of two‑thirds of the Senators present; practically, if all 100 Senators are present that means 67 must vote “guilty” on at least one a...
The core, consistent requirements to apply to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are clear: . Sources converge on deadlines and procedural steps—official test scores, transcripts, letters/evaluat...
The Constitution creates a two-step, congressional process to charge and remove a President: has the sole power to impeach (bring charges), and has the sole power to try -process-in-the-us">impeachmen...
Federal law exempts the President and Vice President from the standard executive-branch gift ban that limits most federal employees to small, infrequent gifts (commonly cited as $20 per gift or $50 pe...
The House of Representatives impeaches by a simple majority vote: if the House adopts one or more articles of impeachment by a majority, the official is formally impeached and the matter moves to the ...
The January 6 Committee concluded that former President Donald Trump played a central, leading role in the Capitol attack, finding he , and it unanimously voted to refer him to the Justice Department ...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows the Vice President, together with a majority of the Cabinet or a body Congress may create, to declare the President unable to discharge the powers and duties of ...
West Point does not publish a standard "accepted‑per‑state" breakdown in the materials provided here, so there is no authoritative, year‑to‑year table in this reporting that answers the question direc...
The pay and expense framework for U.S. senators combines a base salary subject to annual adjustments, a suite of appropriated allowances for official duties (staff, offices, travel, mail, interns), an...
Removal of a president from office requires a two-step constitutional process: impeachment in the House and conviction by a two‑thirds majority in the Senate, and historically presidents impeached by ...
Congress’s formal role in removing a president under the 25th Amendment is narrowly defined: Congress must resolve a dispute triggered by the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet (or another b...
Sara(h) Stock is documented in at least one profile as an openly pro‑MAGA influencer who posts on platforms such as Rift Media and has clashed with other right‑wing creators , and contemporary reporti...
The oaths for House members, Senators, and most federal officers (including the Vice President) use the same statutory text—“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the...
President Biden’s publicly documented actions before March 2025 include signing a short-term funding measure on December 23, 2024 that kept the government funded through March 14, 2025; available repo...
of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment supplies a constitutional mechanism for removing presidential powers temporarily when the President is "unable to discharge the powers and duties" of the office, by writt...
A formal psychiatric evaluation tied to the 25th Amendment would not be governed by a single statute or clinical standard written into the Constitution; Section 4 assigns decision-making power to the ...
The Senate has no direct analogue to the House Speaker; the functional role most often described as the Senate's equivalent is the Senate majority leader, who in practice manages the chamber’s floor a...