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A US constitutional amendment addressing presidential succession and disability.
Multiple resolutions to impeach have been introduced in 2025–2026, but as of January 2026 no full-fledged proceeding that would culminate in a trial has begun; activists and some members of are pressi...
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...
to resign: grassroots petitions and advocacy groups have demanded his resignation, some state and local editorial boards and officials are listed in a compiled memo calling for removal, and at least o...
There are three constitutionally recognized routes to : and conviction by , involuntary transfer under the , and barring future service under the ; each has distinct legal mechanics and steep politica...
’s first presidency ended on January 20, 2021, when was inaugurated as president . Trump’s second, non‑consecutive presidency began on January 20, 2025, and—based on constitutional terms and multiple ...
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 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 ...
A string of recent decisions and emergency orders shows the Supreme Court’s conservative 6–3 alignment has often allowed the Trump administration’s actions to proceed while lower-court challenges play...
A sitting president cannot be " through mid‑term elections" in the literal sense: midterms do not vote directly on the presidency, but they can change the composition of in ways that make removal by c...
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 ...
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 says that the constitutional requirements for President apply to the Vice President and adds the decisive line: “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible ...
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...