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The process outlined in Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution for the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments to declare the President unable to discharge the powers and duties of office.
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment does not permit Congress acting alone to remove a president; Section 4 creates a multi-step process that begins with the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or “su...
permits the Vice President, together with a majority of the “principal officers of the executive departments,” to declare the President unable to discharge the powers and duties of office and have the...
The short answer is: No — Section 4 of the 25th Amendment has never been used to remove a president . Although the text creates a mechanism for the vice president and a majority of principal officers ...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment authorizes the vice president and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments (or a different body Congress creates) to declare the President “una...
of the 25th Amendment — the president’s power to declare a temporary inability and hand authority to the vice president — has been used in modern practice for planned by three presidents: in 1985, (tw...
No president has ever been removed or formally displaced under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment; the provision has never been invoked, though it has been contemplated or discussed at key moments in mod...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or a body Congress creates) to declare the president unable to discharge the duties of office, immediately maki...
Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment creates a fast, constitutional mechanism for transferring presidential powers when the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive ...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment — the constitutional mechanism that allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or a congressionally created body) to declare the president unable to disch...
Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment — the constitutional mechanism that allows the vice president and a majority of the president’s principal officers (or another body Congress might create) to de...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment creates a specific, multi-step constitutional procedure for transferring presidential powers when the President is declared "unable to discharge the powers and duties" ...
Congress cannot straightforwardly "compel" the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke Section 4 of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment, because the Amendment vests the initial decision in the vice president ...