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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution and its relation to presidential succession
Congress has no constitutional power to “directly” remove a President except through the impeachment process laid out in Article I and Article II; the Constitution ties removal of a President to impea...
Article IV (Section 4) of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment establishes a four‑step, legally detailed but politically fraught procedure for transferring presidential power when the president is allegedly “un...
Section 4 of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment empowers the vice president and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments (or another body Congress may by law provide) to declare the P...
When large numbers of lawmakers call for a president’s resignation, Congress has two formal constitutional tools that matter: resignation itself is a private, written act by the president that must be...
The Twenty‑Fifth Amendment lays out four distinct provisions: the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed; the president nominates a new vice president who must ...
unambiguously bars any person from being elected president more than twice, but it does not explicitly say whether a twice‑elected former president can return to the presidency through succession rath...
Mental-health professionals and commentators marshaled a cluster of psychological and psychiatric arguments to claim Donald Trump was unfit for office: personality-pathology-based diagnoses (notably n...