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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: TomSea on October 08, 2019, 06:23:58 pm

Title: Some of Trump's top-most advisers have reportedly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, which lets
Post by: TomSea on October 08, 2019, 06:23:58 pm
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Some of Trump's top-most advisers have reportedly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, which lets 14 people remove a sitting president from office. Here's how it works.
Rebecca Harrington Feb 14, 2019, 10:00 AM

    The 25th Amendment formally outlines the transition of power if the president is unable or unfit to serve.

    Section IV allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to remove the president from office.

    Americans have been particularly interested in the amendment since President Donald Trump took office.


Yet another report indicates that President Donald Trump's top-most advisers have discussed using the Constitution to remove him from office.

In September 2018, an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, claiming there's a "quiet resistance" undermining the president.

Read more at: https://www.businessinsider.com/25th-amendment-how-can-you-remove-president-from-office-2017-3 (https://www.businessinsider.com/25th-amendment-how-can-you-remove-president-from-office-2017-3)

No endorsement here, in simple terms, the above tells us how this works. Sort of a civics lesson.
Title: Re: Some of Trump's top-most advisers have reportedly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, which l
Post by: PeteS in CA on October 08, 2019, 08:10:40 pm
Oh BS! Proggies were kicking around fantasies of invoking the 25th Amendment even before Trump could be inaugurated. L I T E R A L L Y, no hyperbole.

Progs are acting like they're riding a Get-Trump Carousel grasping at the same squishy brown rings, each in turn, over and over, around and around and around and around and .......
Title: Re: Some of Trump's top-most advisers have reportedly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, which l
Post by: Wingnut on October 08, 2019, 08:37:35 pm
Dove tales the Kelly and Rosenstein story in politics.

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,378585.0.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,378585.0.html)
Title: Re: Some of Trump's top-most advisers have reportedly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, which l
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on October 08, 2019, 11:43:21 pm
Why is an article from February 2019 being reposted @TomSea