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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment sets a constitutional framework for continuity of the executive by specifying how presidential powers transfer when a president is dead, resigns, removed, or incapacitated.
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...
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...
of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment supplies a constitutional mechanism for removing presidential powers temporarily when the President is "unable to discharge the powers and duties" of the office, by writt...
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...
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 ...
sets a constitutional framework for continuity of the executive by specifying how presidential powers transfer when a president is dead, resigns, removed, or incapacitated, and by creating procedures ...
Three paths touch the question of whether can be removed by a : ’s power to requires a simple majority, but removal itself requires a two‑thirds Senate conviction; the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment provides ...
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...