Posted on 06/30/2017 5:23:01 PM PDT by springwater13
A Democratic congressman has proposed convening a special committee of psychiatrists and other doctors whose job would be to determine if President Donald Trump is fit to serve in the Oval Office.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who also teaches constitutional law at American University, has predictably failed to attract any Republicans to his banner.
But the U.S. Constitution's 25th Amendment does allow for a majority of the president's cabinet, or 'such other body as Congress may by law provide,' to decide if an Oval Office occupant is unable to carry out his duties – and then to put it to a full congressional vote.
Vice President Mike Pence would also have to agree, which could slow down the process – or speed it up if he wanted the levers of power for himself.
The 25th Amendment has been around since shortly after the John F. Kennedy assassination, but Congress has never formed its own committee in case it's needed to judge a president's mental health.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"....The question is whether you have a sustained pattern of behavior that indicates something is seriously wrong...."
Leave it to the democRATS, who have shown themselves to be mentally ill liberals and not fit for their own offices, to question whether Trump is stable enough to govern as president.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black....
This will only backfire on the democRATS. It won't affect Trump's plan to drain the swamp.
They need to remove some of their people, Maxine Waters, Shelia Jackson-Lee, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Kane, Richard BloomingIdiot, Liz SquawSpeakingBull, Sheldon ‘Normalize’ going to the’ Whitehouse, Bernie Sanders....
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