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please o please 25th the guy. pretty please !!!!!! (Original Post)
AllaN01Bear
19 hrs ago
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The 25th Amendment is toothless as 2/3rds of the House AND 2/3rds of the Senate will NOT vote to say Trump is unfit.
Celerity
18 hrs ago
#3
And then Vance would pardon him and the Krasnov lawyers would delay things until his doctor
Wonder Why
16 hrs ago
#5
SheltieLover
(81,042 posts)1. Yes!
Turbineguy
(40,110 posts)2. It could be a good thing for trump to get 25ed.
He can claim that if he's too crazy to be president, he's unfit to stand trial for his crimes.
Celerity
(54,601 posts)3. The 25th Amendment is toothless as 2/3rds of the House AND 2/3rds of the Senate will NOT vote to say Trump is unfit.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt25-1/ALDE_00013871/
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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.
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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.
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Wonder Why
(7,113 posts)5. And then Vance would pardon him and the Krasnov lawyers would delay things until his doctor
admits ha has terminal dementia.