Posted on 01/10/2021 4:09:53 PM PST by McGruff
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Sunday called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.
The announcement comes as a growing number of Congressmembers have called for President Donald Trump to be removed from office.
Below is the text of a letter Pelosi sent to her Democrat collogues:
Dear Democratic Colleague,
On this Sunday, as we pray that God will continue to Bless America, I write to inform you of our next actions, which will be made with the great solemnity that this moment requires.
I want to call to your immediate attention the action to be taken tomorrow morning, when Majority Leader Hoyer will request Unanimous Consent to bring up the Raskin resolution. This resolution calls on the Vice President to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the duties of his office, after which the Vice President would immediately exercise powers as acting President. The text of the resolution can be found here.
If we do not receive Unanimous Consent, this legislation is planned to be brought up on the Floor the following day. We are calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours.
Next, we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor.
In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both. As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.
I look forward to our Caucus call tomorrow. I am grateful to all Members for the suggestions, observations and input that you have been sending. Your views on the 25th Amendment, 14th Amendment Section 3 and impeachment are valued as we continue. I am answering your communications in chronological order and will do so into the night.
Thank you for your patriotism.
Pelosi is not deranged.
She is a Freaking Tyrant.
They are not even Socialists they are Authoritarian Stasi Communists.
If Pelosi is making this letter public, it means whatever private efforts to bring Pence to their side have failed. True desperation. Whenever I give in to despair, the Dems pull a stunt like this and my faith is renewed that Trump has a plan.
She is the one that is truly UNHINGED..I wonder what was on that laptop that was taken..my guess, child porn and lots of it
“Dear Democratic Colleague,”
This is either satire or fake.
You took the words right out of my mount... all I am left with is yawn...
Obviously freaking out over something!
Not a Q fan, but would be awesome to see the military moving in right about now, and rounding up all these traitors.
It’s time!
I wonder what the gutless, white haired bottom boy Pence is going to do?
“This carries all the same weighty legal authority as the Congressional declaration of July 30th as National Cheesecake Day.”
Less actually, because Cheesecake Day passed an actual vote, rather than just being a proposal.
She’s off her heavy medication.
This IS A COUP!
The reason they want the 25th amendment is to get him locked up in a mental hospital or something, to have his sanity questioned.
Why?
Because Trump has the secrets.
“...mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the duties of his office, after which the Vice President would immediately exercise powers as acting President.”
Well, no. The declaration, if contested by the president, will subsequently require two thirds vote in both Houses of Congress.
Too late for that.
She knows President Trump has nothing to lose and has all the files of their crimes. When are they coming? Nervous Nancy!
So, the Speaker of the House has authority over the Vice President. That’s a real turn of events. Sounds like usurpation of the Constitution.
Everything we know about and likely then some. And then the matter of whats on that laptop that was taken. and some letter.
This is healing?
She what?
Pelosi needs to be arrested or Baker act.
Otherwise, she is going to get a lot of people killed.
5.56mm
I wonder if it’s healthy to laugh as hard as I am.
Yep. She does appear to be freaking out.
If Biden is going to be inaugurated on the 20th, she should be at ease...unless something else is going to hit the fan in the meantime.
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