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Reports: Cabinet Members In Discussions To Remove Trump As President By Invoking 25th Amendment
A president has never before been forced out of office. Here’s how it would work.
www.forbes.com
Some of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet secretaries are discussing whether to invoke a section of the 25th Amendment to strip Trump of his powers and install Vice President Mike Pence as head of the executive branch, according to multiple reports, after chaos took hold of Washington on Wednesday when Trump supporters violently took over the U.S. Capitol.
Congress would then have 48 hours to assemble and 21 days to decide whether to permanently strip the president of powers, which would require at least a two-thirds majority vote of both chambers.
Former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), who was the primary sponsor of the 25th Amendment in the Senate, wrote that Section 4 was designed to be used if the president was “nutty as a fruit cake.”
yes please do it!
Trump is unhinged and probably more so now that Twitter turned off his acct till tomorrow.
God knows what crazy stuff Trump will do in his last 2 weeks in power.