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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Wed May 17, 2017, 02:01 PM May 2017

Amendment 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???))

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Amendment 25 Section 4 (Original Post) nitpicker May 2017 OP
Yes, the emoulements clause nitpicker May 2017 #1
A majority of the cronies he appointed will not dare overthrow him dalton99a May 2017 #2
Easier to impeach. onenote May 2017 #3

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
1. Yes, the emoulements clause
Wed May 17, 2017, 02:04 PM
May 2017

But it was never written to exclude family members from profiting.

(maybe the Founding Fathers' families were??)

onenote

(42,590 posts)
3. Easier to impeach.
Wed May 17, 2017, 02:16 PM
May 2017

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.

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