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The 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, which deals with presidential succession and incapacity.
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...
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 ...
Yes — a sitting U.S. president can be removed from office, and for Donald J. Trump the constitutional pathways discussed publicly are resignation, impeachment and conviction by the Senate, the involun...
Three constitutional routes can end a presidency before January 20, 2029: voluntary exit (resignation or death), involuntary removal through impeachment and Senate conviction, and temporary or permane...
The 25th Amendment sets two distinct routes for transferring presidential power when the president is incapacitated: a cooperative path where the president voluntarily yields power (Section 3) and a f...
The Twenty‑Second Amendment bars anyone from being elected President more than twice but does not unambiguously say that a twice‑elected former president cannot later serve as President by succession ...
The Twenty‑Fifth Amendment’s Section 3 — the president’s voluntary, written transfer of powers to the vice president — has been used a handful of times for planned medical procedures, most notably by ...
A feasible bipartisan commission to evaluate presidential fitness would be a standing, congressionally authorized panel of medical experts and retired senior officials, appointed by congressional lead...
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 ...
Politicians and media have repeatedly treated public calls to “invoke the 25th Amendment” as if they were synonymous with an imminent, formal constitutional removal, even though the amendment contains...
Congress cannot simply enact a law to oust a sitting president; the Constitution vests the formal power of removal in impeachment and conviction (House impeachment, Senate trial) . Nevertheless, schol...
Congressional and presidential Election Day is a creature of federal statute: changing it requires Congress to pass a new law that alters the existing statutory dates controlling congressional electio...
The Twenty‑Fifth Amendment codifies presidential succession, fills vice‑presidential vacancies, and creates procedures to handle presidential incapacity; it was proposed by Congress in 1965 and ratifi...
The 25th Amendment clarified presidential succession and incapacity after Kennedy’s assassination, creating four operative sections that have been used routinely to fill vacancies and temporarily tran...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment codifies how the United States fills presidential and vice‑presidential vacancies and how presidential inability is managed, providing four sections that collectively govern...
No — the United States has not “activated Article 25” (the 25th Amendment’s incapacity provision, Section 4); Section 4 has never been used to remove a sitting president, while the Amendment’s Section...
Multiple Cabinet secretaries and senior officials privately discussed using Section 4 of the 25th Amendment in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, but public records and contemporary reporting do not pr...
The Constitution does not contain a single, explicit clause that says who may "remove" Cabinet secretaries; removal authority is split between the President’s general executive removal power (implicit...
The Constitution empowers Congress to impeach and try federal officers for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors," not for sheer incompetence, but historical practice and political ...
Removal via impeachment and removal via the 25th Amendment follow different constitutional tracks and produce different post‑removal remedies: impeachment is a political judgment by Congress with no f...