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president Donald TrumpThe government is facing another round of calls to invoke 25th Amendment remove a president from office after he has taken office Calls for Greenland to be included in US territory.
Trump’s Cabinet and then-Vice President Mike Pence faced before Similar requirements A group of the president’s supporters stormed the halls of the Capitol after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 congress Undermining the certification of the election he lost.
This is not the first time Trump has faced calls to step down since returning to the White House in January last year. In early October, liberal commentators and critics on social media asked his cabinet to invoke the amendment after he gave a rambling speech to the nation’s top military leaders in Quantico, Virginia.
It is highly unlikely that the president’s allies and the Republican-dominated Congress would vote to oust him. The President enjoys the unwavering loyalty of the Cabinet and the Vice President JD Vancethey actually have to agree with their political opponents that the president can no longer serve.
But prominent Democrats claim the president is unfit to serve, His cognitive health is decliningand his behavior on the world stage has become increasingly erratic.
What are Trump’s critics saying now?
Some Democrats, including the Massachusetts senator. Ed MarkeyArizona Rep. Yasamin Ansari and California Rep. Eric Swalwell and Sidney Kamlager-Dorff called for invoking the amendment to remove Trump from office. Text message he sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gall Storey Sunday.
In the letter, the president complained that Storr’s country did not award him the Nobel Peace Prize last year, saying that in light of that disappointment, “I no longer feel obligated to think purely about peace, although peace will always prevail, but now to consider what is good and appropriate for the United States of America.”
“Denmark cannot protect this land from Russia or China, why do they have ‘ownership’? There is no written document, just that a ship landed there hundreds of years ago, but we also have ships landing there.”
Ansari responded on Monday after the Store posted the news wrote “The President of the United States suffers from a severe mental illness that puts all of our lives at risk. The 25th Amendment exists for a reason — and we need to invoke it immediately,” he wrote on social media.
A more surprising critic of the text was the late Vice President’s longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner dick cheneyWHO release: “This letter, and the fact that the President directed its distribution to other European countries, should trigger a bipartisan congressional investigation into the President’s fitness.”
Another cause for concern emerged on Tuesday, when Trump posted 33 times on Truth Social in just 45 minutes, claiming he had “done more for NATO than anyone,” shared conspiracies about voting machines, and retweeted Islamophobic messages Claiming that America’s real enemy is Islam, not China or Russia.
‘Are we watching a real-time mental health crisis with Trump?’ Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger he asked in the blue sky, shortly after the president’s posting spree ended. “Seriously.”
Have you used it before?
Congressional Democrats publicly urged then-Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office in January 2021 after Trump failed to prevent hundreds of supporters from breaking into the Capitol in a violent attempt to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
member of house of representatives The vote result on January 12, 2021 was 223-205, Passed a resolution forcing Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. burns refused the effort In a letter to then-Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Trump was later impeached by the House of Representatives for inciting insurrection.
Republican officials and Trump allies also Former President Joe Biden’s Cabinet was frequently called upon to invoke the amendment against himespecially after he decided to end his re-election campaign in July 2024.
Trump himself claimed that Democratic leaders told Biden to end his campaign or be removed from office. During the campaign, Vance also called on Biden’s Cabinet to invoke the amendment to remove him from office.
“You can’t do it in a way that’s best for Democrats politically,” he said on Fox News at the time. “If this is a real issue, they should address it in an appropriate manner.”
Republican lawmakers also called on officials to invoke the amendment against Biden after special counsel Robert Hull’s report suggested then-President Biden’s mental health was “severely limited.”
However, the 25th Amendment has been invoked many times as a practical matter of temporarily transferring power from the President to the Vice President during medical procedures.
ronald regan Briefly transferring power to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush In 1985, Reagan underwent surgery for colon cancer. George W. Bush Likewise, power was transferred to Cheney twice, in 2002 and 2007, during Cheney’s colonoscopies. Biden will also transfer power to Kamala Harris Colonoscopy in 2021.
How does it work?
Before the ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1965, the rules of succession were constitutionally vague and did not specify how the vice president would become acting president if the president died, resigned, or was removed from office.
First, the amendment explicitly states that the Vice President becomes President “in the event of the President’s removal from office, death, or resignation.”
But removing a president requires the vice president and a majority of the 16-member presidential cabinet to agree “that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Another option would be to establish a disability review panel, which would require congressional approval and the president’s signature or, if defeated, the support of at least two-thirds of the House and Senate.
Once the Vice President and the Cabinet or Disability Review Panel agree that the President must be removed, the Vice President will immediately be able to “assume the powers and duties of the Acting President.”
The president can tell Congress that “there is no incompetence” and will “restore the powers and duties of his office,” which can then be challenged by the Cabinet or a disability panel.
Congress then has 21 days to decide whether the president is fit to serve. The House and Senate must agree by a two-thirds vote to allow the vice president to step in.