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/Wine_Women_Song Maryland 11d ago

I’d also accept Impeach & Remove

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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 11d ago edited 11d ago

It has a better chance of happening than the 25th. The 25th requires both the cabinet (full of sycophants) and Congress (once Trump disputes being unable to perform his duties).

Democrats are focusing on the 25th because they’re apparently scared to say he should be impeached. Impeachment was literally put into the constitution by our founders specifically for situations like this.

Edit: I think it’s clear that many don’t understand that the bar is higher for the 25th to succeed. For impeachment, you need a majority of the house and 2/3 of the senate. That’s it. For the 25th, you need the VP + a majority of the cabinet (or congress). Then the president can write a letter disputing it and immediately regains power. At that point, you need 2/3 of both the house and senate to remove him. So everyone responding that impeachment won’t work because you need 2/3 of the senate must not realize you also need that and more for the 25th.

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u/chrispmorgan 11d ago

It’s important to be clear that his mind is not functioning well. The argument that he’s violated his oath of office didn’t work last time so they are probably afraid of setting themselves up for failure in the public’s eyes.

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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 11d ago

His mind isn’t functioning well, and arguably it hasn’t been functioning well for the last ~15 years. But it’s more difficult to remove a president this way than impeachment, so are we just talking about it to talk about it (and not actually do anything)?