Posted on 10/09/2020 6:33:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Now we know what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bizarre 25th Amendment comments were really about.
During her Thursday press conference, Pelosi told media to come on back Friday to hear something regarding the constitutional amendment by which a president may be removed from office. Passed in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, the 25th spells out what may be lawfully done when a sitting president is deemed no longer fit to serve.
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.
The 25th Amendment to our august Constitution was never intended to be a partisan cudgel. It was intended to bring order out of chaos for a nation reeling from some tragedy.
But welcome to 2020, where literally anything can happen, and it usually does! We’ve nearly had World War III, we have had space aliens a couple of times, and we’ve had a deadly virus sweep the world and we’re all supposed to stay mum about where it came from while we stay locked up and watch our economy crash and burn. Well, mainly in the locked-up Democrat states. Red states that have reopened seem to be bringing more jobs back.
We have other means besides the quite serious and scary mechanisms of the 25th for removing presidents. They’re called “elections,”
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DOA and not going anywhere. McCarthy is on the warpath about this.
Pelosi has told media that she and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) will re-introduce 25th Amendment legislation Friday morning. Raskin drafted this legislation in 2017, coincidentally Trump’s first year in the presidency, but it never went anywhere. It’s less likely to get anywhere now.
When asked Thursday if she believed it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, Pelosi declined to go into detail but questioned why the White House wasn’t providing a full accounting of Trump’s health, including when he last tested negative for COVID-19.
“I’m not talking about it today except to tell you, if you want to talk about that, we’ll see you tomorrow,” Pelosi said. “But you take me back to my point, Mr. President, when was the last time you had a negative test before you tested positive? Why is the White House not telling the country that important fact about how this made a hot spot of the White House?”
This gambit isn’t really intended to pass and become law. Everyone who ever watched Schoolhouse Rock knows how that works. It would have to get through both the House and the Senate and land the signature of one Donald J. Trump, the very target of Pelosi’s scheme. That’s not going to happen, nor does Pelosi even intend for it to happen.
Pelosi makes her own Friday Silliness threads.
If Biden took a mental acuity test they’d remove him from the campaign trail and prevent actual reporter questions, oh wait, they already did.
As she is telegraphing her punches there goes the Left’s argument about “accepting the results of the 2020 election”.
Her ploys are partisan attacks on our voters’ choice.
Ain’t gonna happen.
As I posted yesterday in another thread, read the first 5 words of section 4 again.
Whenever the Vice President and...
This requires cooperation of the vice president. Pelosi is dreaming, again.
Betting she isn’t Speaker come Feb.
They keep asking if Trump will agree to leave office in 2021.
They’ve been working for 4 years to force him from his office. They don’t even entertain the notion that We The People may want him to serve 4 more.
It’s all treason.
Has she demanded the President accept the election results yet?
>>Pelosi said. “But you take me back to my point, Mr. President, when was the last time you had a negative test before you tested positive?
MRS. Pelosi? Where was Barack Hussein Obama during the 9-11-2012 terrorist attack on our embassy and what drugs was he on that he was unable to do his job? We still don’t know where Obama was or what he was doing. He was “absent”.
And the Obama administration lied all the way up to the election about that terrorist attack and jailed a filmmaker over it as a patsy. “We’ll get the person responsible for that video” is a paraphrase of what Hillary told the families of our dead.
So what’s the process to deem the Speaker of the House “unfit?”
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A more obvious and pertinent question is : When is a ‘Speaker of the House’ unfit to serve, and should be removed.
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It is sedition unless it can be shown that Nanzi is acting under orders from Chinese Communists.
Sounds like they’re pretty confident that nuzzlin’ joe/carmela are toast in the election.
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