Unconstitutional????

[uppityperson]

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Don the Con

“Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing...which happens in third world countries. You have to obey the law. This is an attack on our system & Constitution.” Alan Dershowitz.
@TuckerCarlson

[manor321]

1. Using a Constitutional amendment is unconstitutional! - Alan Dershowitz

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Would someone sit Spanky down and explain to him

that if something is in the Constitution it's constitutional? Or is that too complicated? And maybe constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz should be reminded of that as well.

[Solly Mack]

3. SMH

Surreal world.

[C_U_L8R]

4. "In a time of universal deceit...

telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
--- George Orwell

[arthritisR_US]

10. Nailed it!

[Marie Marie]

5. Trump telling anyone that they have to obey the law????

[onecaliberal]

6. My god...

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Spanky should be declared unconstitutional.

[brooklynite]

8. Actually, he's sort of right

The 25th Amendment allows the VP and Cabinet to the President's powers to be transferred to the VP IF "the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office". It says nothing about replacing him on the basis of a tainted election. It ALSO allows the President to challenge the decision, in which case the issue goes to Congress, requiring a 2/3 vote to uphold the decision.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. no, he's wrong

It cannot be unconstitutional because it's provided for by the Constitution. The reason for the checks on it is to help prevent its misuse. His opinion about it being used to "circumvent an election" does not make it an unconstitutional act, it just makes it more likely to fail to pass the checks built in, if true.

[unblock]

11. not unconstitutional, just nearly impossible to make happen outside of a presidential coma.

as you said, veep, majority of cabinet, 2/3 of house, 2/3 of senate.

that's a whole lot of people and institutions across parties, notably including the president's inner circle.

for them to agree the president's got to go, it pretty much has to be because the president's in a coma or otherwise so obviously incapacitated that even his closest supporters agree he's got to go.

if the people needed to make it happen agree to make it happen, it's constitutional; really, the stated reason doesn't much matter.

in practice, it's extremely unlikely to ever happen for the "wrong" reasons.


for our present-day circumstance, it's ridiculous to think it has any shot of happening to remove donnie.
there's just no way you'd get the necessary people to agree.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Is he going to be a stand-up comedian after his prison time?

[myohmy2]

13. MAGA's pick and chose...

...what they want from the Constitution and what the Constitution means...what MAGA's don't like, doesn't exist, and what they do like, is etched in stone...

...we have a system built for liars, thieves and scoundrels...

...we have to re-think this country and what it means to be an American...

...I'm pretty sure it doesn't include Russia...

...

[Initech]

14. Fox News should just declare itself a branch of the government and get it over with already.