Utah Sen. Mike Lee says it's a 'Great time to deploy the 25th Amendment' after President Joe Biden's rambling new conference ends abruptly in Vietnam.
The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967 following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and established a clear line of succession in the event of an emergency. the fourth section of the amendment allows for the removal of a president who is incapacitated or the forcible removal of that president from power.
In such a scenario, the chief executive must be declared unfit to continue in office by the vice president and a majority of the cabinet or by Congress. The president can appeal to Congress, who then vote on the matter.After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of former President Donald Trump supporters, members of Trump’s cabinetbut did not follow through, according to ABC News.
At the end of former President Ronald Reagan’s second term, administration officials worried Reagan — who was later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease — had become uninterested in leading the country and contemplated invoking the amendment,
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