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Should the 25th Amendment be Amended to Include Vice Presidents? – HotAir

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…

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