What is VP Harris' role in 25th Amendment and how would it work to remove Biden?: Experts
Republican calls for the 25th Amendment to be triggered have increased as questions about Biden's mental fitness swirl
By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
Published July 9, 2024 8:00am EDT
Concerns about President Biden’s mental sharpness and calls for him to drop out of the race have sparked questions about the 25th Amendment and what role Vice President Kamala Harris would play in triggering that process.
The 25th Amendment allows for the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare a president unfit for office. The vice president then becomes acting president. However, the section of the amendment specifically addressing this procedure has never been invoked.
Experts talked to Fox News Digital about what that unprecedented process would look like.
"The 25th amendment process was designed to be difficult." Jonathan Turley, Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital. "It is highly doubtful that Harris will play Biden's Brutus."
"For one thing, it is unlikely to garner the needed support in the cabinet. To seek a removal and miss would leave Harris looking not just premature but positively predatorial. With the entire White House staff marshalled to support the President, it would be viewed as a mutinous moment."
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