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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmendment 25 Section 4
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxv
((So far as I know, Trump has not crossed into impeachment territory, but impaired judgement???))
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)But it was never written to exclude family members from profiting.
(maybe the Founding Fathers' families were??)
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)onenote
(42,590 posts)Removing Trump on the grounds he is unable to discharge the duties of the office would require 2/3 of the House and Senate to concur in that finding and its never going to happen so long as a president is conscious. It would be easier for members of the House and Senate to conclude he's engaged in behavior that abused the office than that he's mentally unstable.