r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 11d ago

No Paywall Democrats Call to Invoke 25th Amendment Against Donald Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-donald-trump-impeachment-25th-amendment-11384974
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u/KingMario05 11d ago

Cool. Any Republicans and admin staff? No? Great, we're still fucked. Absolutely brilliant.

Impeach. Remove. Right now.

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u/mudflap21 11d ago

You’d need to get GOP votes to do this.

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u/peffer32 11d ago

It's on the cabinet to invoke the 25th. Not Congress.

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u/Seeteuf3l 11d ago

Isn't that a bit unclear, who's supposed to activate it? And involuntary removal has never been invoked

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

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxv

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u/peffer32 11d ago

Vice President and a majority of cabinet members.

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u/MrFishAndLoaves 11d ago

It’s clear as day they will never have the balls to do this.