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There is no evidence in the provided reporting that the 25th Amendment was activated today; the sources explain what invocation would require and show that Section 4—the only part that removes a sitti...
There is no credible evidence that former President Donald Trump signed an order or directly sent National Guard troops to defend the U.S. Capitol as it was being attacked on January 6, 2021; multiple...
Informal Cabinet conversations about invoking Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment have been documented primarily through contemporaneous news reporting, retrospective legal scholarship and archiva...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been used several times since ratification in 1967, primarily to fill vice‑presidential vacancies and to allow presidents to temporarily transfer power under Section 3; ...
The record is mixed: contemporaneous Pentagon timelines and fact-checking found no evidence that President Trump signed a formal order deploying 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops to the Capitol on J...
The Speaker of the House cannot “overrule” the President on mobilizing or commanding the National Guard in ordinary circumstances: control of Guard forces generally rests with state governors (or the ...
Capitol Police and House/security officials played a central but contested role in both declining pre-event National Guard offers and delaying formal Guard deployment during the Jan. 6 attack. Multipl...
Available reporting shows there is no credible evidence that former President Donald Trump issued a formal order to deploy 10,000 or 20,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; P...
Executive Summary Courts and congressional bodies repeatedly quoted and cited President Trump’s January 6, 2021 remarks using verbatim phrases—most prominently “fight like hell,” “we will never conced...
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer publicly moved to advance a to avert a government shutdown at the end of September 2021, with a definitive press account placing the action and his announceme...