How does the 25th Amendment work?
By Tal Axelrod - 09/21/18 03:23 PM EDT
The New York Times reported Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein proposed secretly recording conversations in the Oval Office with President Trump last year and discussed the possibility of Cabinet officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him.
But what is the 25th Amendment? And how does it work?
The 25th Amendment was ratified in the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination and is primarily intended to define the presidential order of succession.
It is divided into four articles to describe the different scenarios under which a president would leave office.
The first article explains that if a president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president would immediately become the president. This was used when President Nixon resigned and was replaced by Vice President Ford.
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