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To: tcrlaf

Fine, Princess Buffalo Squat.

Go get 2/3 of the House and 2/3 of the Senate to agree


20 posted on 02/18/2019 9:11:56 AM PST by digger48
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To: digger48
For impeachment per the U.S. Constitution, they need a majority of the house and 2/3 of the Senate to convict.

I just read the 25th Amendment. Those seeking to remove the president need 2/3 of BOTH houses if the president objects to their action. So all this blather about invoking the 25th Amendment is really just partisan loony tunes noise.

AMENDMENT XXV

SECTION 3
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

SECTION 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.


30 posted on 02/18/2019 9:26:28 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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