let's talk about the 25th amendment:
We can get all spun up or we can come to understand Pelosi may attempt to try this but at the end of the day, It's just not gunna happen. Here is the plain speak abou the issue:
So if this were to play out over the next few days, the vice president (Mike Pence) and a majority of the cabinet (these folks) would have to tell the Speaker (Nancy Pelosi) and the president pro tempore of the Senate (Chuck Grassley) that they think the president (Donald Trump) should be removed. As soon as the message is delivered, Pence is president—but that’s not all.
At this point, the president can get their powers back just by saying that they are now able to carry out the duties of the office. This is pretty straightforward if power was temporarily transferred because the president was sick or having surgery. But what if the president says they’re fine, and they’re not? The rest of section 4 of the amendment sets out a timeline:
>Within four days of the president saying they want their powers back, the vice president and the majority of the cabinet can declare that they still believe the president is unfit.
>Congress must convene within 48 hours, if it is not already in session.
>Congress then has 21 days to decide who to believe.
the KEY:
To remove the president from office, both houses must vote, by a two-thirds majority, that the president is unable to discharge the duties of the office. If they can’t reach a decision within 21 days, the power goes back to the president.
If the president is removed, the vice president takes over as president, and can appoint a new vice president.
here is a Caveat:
Another unexplored part of the amendment says that Congress can create another “body,” which could possibly be a panel of doctors, to join the vice president in disputing the president’s ability to serve. This doesn’t replace Congress’s final verdict, but rather the veep’s and cabinet’s letter. That means this body can be used to get the ball rolling and force Congress to convene and vote. Bills to create this body have been proposed (by Democrats) but not enacted.
Section 4 addresses the case of an incapacitated president who is unable or unwilling to execute the voluntary declaration contemplated in Section 3; it is the amendment's only section that has never been invoked. It allows the vice president, together with a "majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide", to declare the president "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office" in a written declaration. The transfer of authority to the vice president is immediate, and (as with Section 3) the vice president becomes acting president – not president – while the president remains in office, albeit divested of all authority.[6]
The "principal officers of the executive departments" are the fifteen Cabinet members enumerated in the United States Code at 5 U.S.C 101:[7][8][9]
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security
so now we sit and watch the show because the 25th was spoken about yesterday (TRIAL BALLOON and NARRATIVE SHIFT FRIDAY??)
SAUCE:
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-remove-an-unfit-president-with-the-25th-amendmen-1828859155
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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