hotair.com By Jazz Shaw
The title question isn’t entirely hypothetical under our Constitution, but in practice it may as well be. It’s an idea most recently floated by Donald Trump during a rally in Wisconsin. Under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, the Vice President, along with a majority of the principal officers of the executive branch may determine that the President is incapable of carrying out their duties and remove them from office. Trump pledged to support a Constitutional amendment that would expand that power to include the removal of the Vice President as well. This was clearly intended as a shot across the bow at Kamala Harris, supporting the idea that she should be removed from office for covering up President Joe Biden’s cognitive infirmities from the press and the public. Of course, the likelihood of getting any Constitutional amendment to pass these days is essentially zero and this particular proposal would be fraught with problems of its own. (Politico)
Donald Trump on Saturday floated changing the 25th Amendment to allow Congress to impeach a vice president for covering up a president’s incapacity less than two months after President Joe Biden exited the 2024 contest amid concerns about his age and acuity.
“I will support modifying the 25th Amendment to make clear that if a vice president lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president of the United States — if you do that with a cover-up of the president of the United States, it’s grounds for impeachment immediately and removal from office, because that’s what they did,” the former president said during a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.
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