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The 25th Amendment and controversies over presidential succession
If a sitting president and the entire executive branch were simultaneously removed or incapacitated, the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act lay out a specific order: the vice president i...
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...
Only one U.S. president is clearly documented in the provided reporting as having been effectively told by Congressional leaders to resign: Richard M. Nixon, who stepped down in August 1974 after top ...
The has been used several times for brief, voluntary transfers of presidential authority—most commonly when presidents undergo —while the involuntary-removal mechanism in Section 4 has never been invo...
’s Cabinet has not formally invoked Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to remove or temporarily displace President Trump; what exists in the record is discussion, calls from lawmakers and commentators, a...
In the days after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple news outlets and legal scholars reported that “some” or “multiple” Cabinet secretaries had discussed invoking Section 4 of th...