Against the 25th Amendment — and Warily against Impeachment
By Andrew C. McCarthy
January 7, 2021 12:10 PM
The conduct we’ve witnessed is impeachable, yes. But let’s try to take the temperature down, rather than raising it.
Against the 25th Amendment — and Warily against Impeachment
By Andrew C. McCarthy
January 7, 2021 12:10 PM
Vice President Mike Pence leads a briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington, D.C., November 19, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
The conduct we’ve witnessed is impeachable, yes. But let’s try to take the temperature down, rather than raising it.
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T hese are dark days in the history of the United States, and no one is feeling them more intensely than Mike Pence.
On Wednesday, the vice president admirably turned aside the president’s high-intensity demands that he shred the Constitution. Trump was pushing Pence to usurp the states’ power over the disposition of their electoral votes — in effect, to claim dictatorial power to reverse President-elect Biden’s victory. Pence’s fidelity to his constitutional oath so enraged Trump that the president publicly rebuked him even as an insurrectionist mob was descending on the Capitol. Press reports indicate that the rioters, upon overwhelming security forces and entering the building, set about searching for Pence — who, by then, had been whisked away while members of Congress were also being safeguarded.
The vice president and congressional leadership were intrepid in returning to their important business last night. But even before the electoral votes were finally counted and Biden was recognized as the next president, calls were coming from both sides of the political aisle for Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from power with less than two weeks to go in his term.
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