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The 25th Amendment and its application in removing a president due to incapacity, including the role of Congress and the Vice President.
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been used, but not in the way some headlines imply: its provisions have been invoked multiple times to fill vacancies and to temporarily transfer power when presidents w...
Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment have repeatedly surfaced during moments of intense partisan and public concern about a president’s fitness — most recently in multiple episodes cited by lawmakers an...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment sets a multi-step, constitutionally prescribed procedure that allows the vice president together with a majority of the president’s principal officers to declare the pr...
None of the supplied materials report a contemporaneous invocation; the documents explain the amendment’s mechanics, its rare past uses, and public debates over invoking it, but they contain no eviden...
Contemporaneous, verifiable emails or internal memoranda showing Cabinet members formally deliberating to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment are not produced or cited in the reporting provided; mo...
The 25th Amendment was written to channel disputes over presidential incapacity into a constitutional, legislative process, but Congress has never adjudicated a contested Section 4 removal so there is...
The 25th Amendment creates both voluntary and involuntary mechanisms to transfer presidential power: Section 3 allows a president to temporarily cede duties, while Section 4 permits the vice president...
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; ...
Calls for President Trump to resign in 2025 have appeared across disparate channels—grassroots petitions, social media mockery, some media commentaries and at least one partisan narrative claiming con...
Congressional demands that a president resign or be removed have been recorded and verified through a mix of constitutional text, formal House and Senate actions (impeachment inquiries, votes, resolut...