As the fallout continues from the Hur Report, which said that while Joe Biden “willfully retained” classified documents, he wouldn’t be charged in part because he’s a “well-meaning elderly man with memory problems,” calls for impeachment or removal under the 25th Amendment reached a fever pitch. While the impeachment process is straightforward, removal under the 25th Amendment is anything but.
As luck would have it, Georgetown University law professor and political analyst Jonathan Turley explained the workings of the 25th Amendment in a recent column. As Turley noted, Special Counsel Robert Hur said in the report that a jury would find Biden a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” which in part led to Hur’s decision against recommending charges against the 81-year-old president.
After the report was released, Biden’s hastily arranged news conference,…
