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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor The Good Of The Nation: 25th OR BUST!!!
4. 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.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days 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. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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For The Good Of The Nation: 25th OR BUST!!! (Original Post)
eniwetok
Mar 2017
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TexasBushwhacker
(20,248 posts)1. Yup. Somehow Trump's tweet from a couple of years ago
showed up in my feed. He asked if a President can be imprached for gross incompetence. I went ahead and answered "25th Amendment, 4th clause".
eniwetok
(1,629 posts)2. found it!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,248 posts)3. I'm not Scott
But that's the tweet that showed up mysteriously in my Twitter feed a few weeks ago.
Who's Scott?
eniwetok
(1,629 posts)5. sorry about that
I decided to nuke reference to the name should it be you. He's one of the people that answers the tweet as you did... shit, now I can't find it.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)4. Pence is most likely compromised by Russia too, so not any better.
eniwetok
(1,629 posts)6. if true, Trump would have been led or instructed to pick him...
Which raises the question why Trump picked him? The common wisdom is that he was shoring up areas he was weak in... not being a hard core right wingers nor a right wing Christian. But if that's not the case, he had to have been steered to Pence by Manafort.