Pelosi and Schumer wrong to claim Trump can be removed with 25th Amendment

[Counselor706]

Calls by the top Democrats in Congress — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York — to remove President Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment demonstrate their profound ignorance of the Constitution.

The 25th Amendment provides for the president’s removal and replacement in the event that he is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."

Although incapacity is not defined, the legislative history summarized by the Congressional Research Service makes it abundantly evident that the framers of the amendment envisioned a chief executive who was stricken by a debilitating stroke, heart attack, or bodily injury (such as in an attempted assassination) and was physically or mentally disabled as a direct consequence.

Against this legislative backdrop, the 25th Amendment has no application to the circumstances that unfolded Wednesday. Pelosi and Schumer don’t care about that. In a shameless ploy, they seek to bastardize a constitutional standard for partisan gain.

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[YDB95]

Not true. It's simply a matter of whether a majority of cabinet members (or specifically of the ones confirmed by the Senate) decided he's no longer capable of the job. It is probably true that the framers of the amendment never imagined someone like Trump, but 1) that's irrelevant, and 2) it's hardly reasonable to expect them to have thought a guy like that would ever get elected in the first place.

 

[LupusDei]

Psychiatric expertise would likely gladly declare him mentally unstable and unfit for office if asked.

 

[KeithD]

Psychiatric expertise would likely gladly declare him mentally unstable and unfit for office if asked.

A bunch of leading psychiatrists have already been doing that for four years. I think they even published a book on it.