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The process of invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, including the role of the Vice President and Cabinet, and potential judicial review.
Members of Congress have, on multiple occasions, publicly demanded that Donald Trump leave office—primarily in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack—while advocacy campaigns and some local of...
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 ...
No — the 25th Amendment has not been formally invoked to remove President Trump or to render him unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office under Section 4, and the mechanism for involunt...
The 25th Amendment has been repeatedly discussed as a route to remove Donald Trump, most prominently after the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack and again in 2025 after controversial remarks, but it has...
Public discussion of “resignation, Trump” collapses two different realities into one phrase: mass departures from his administrations (actual resignations and dismissals of officials) and recurring pu...
Congresswoman Haley Stevens organized and publicized a roster of "over 200 lawmakers" calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office; her office says the full signatory list is published on ...
If a President sued to block a of the , courts would face uncharted territory and are likely to proceed cautiously: has not definitively interpreted the Amendment and lower courts have little preceden...
Presidents have treated Section 3 of the 25th Amendment as a practical, routinized safety valve—used a handful of times to hand temporary authority to vice presidents during planned medical procedures...
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...
The 25th Amendment provides a legal framework for replacing a president who dies, resigns, or is incapacitated and for filling a vacant vice presidency, and it has been used repeatedly to clarify succ...