XXV amendment

[Motley13]

http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am25.html

I think blotus could be removed from office fairly quickly.

[guillaumeb]

1. Assuming any willingness on the part of the GOP.

Trump is their tool. Competence is not a prerequisite for a GOP officeholder.

[Lurks Often]

2. Not this silliness again

"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."

Link: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxv

Why do people think the very people Trump appointed are suddenly gone to get together and, in writing, say that Trump is no longer capable of discharging the powers and duties of his office? The chances of that happening approach zero.

[exboyfil]

5. Even if you reach that hurdle

Trump can still petition Congress every month to reassume the duties of the President. They will have to turn him down with 2/3rds in each House. An impeachment vote only requires a majority in the House of Representatives to indict.

The 25th Amendment is like the Walking Dead version of impeachment.

Of the four options for Trump to leave office, it is the least likely (Death, Resignation, Impeachment, and Incapacitation (25th-4)).

I would put the probability of the last two at near zero (resignation will come before impeachment). A 70 year old male has a 2.4% chance of dying in a year. There is a 90% chance that Trump will serve all four years unless he resigns.

[Lurks Often]

6. Lots of posts here lately that are just silly fantasies

[elleng]

3. Maybe 'could,' but surely won't be quickly.

[unblock]

4. this has been covered before. generally speaking, it's fantasy.

hard enough to think the loyal sycophants who owe their current station to donnie would turn on him, but if donnie challenged it (and why wouldn't he), it requires 2/3rds of both houses of congress.

it's easier to remove him by impeachment, which only requires a simple majority in the house and the same 2/3rds in the senate.

not that even that's at all likely, given how congressional republicans value self-preservation far above the national interest.

[Motley13]

7. I think the repugs want rid of blotus, they want Pence

They are just waiting for enough indisputable evidence to make sure it works. They think he is insane also.