Which it should be, otherwise it’s the ‘easy coup’ amendment. The powers behind the two cases foremost in Framers minds, Wilson and FDR, would have wanted to oppose, but could their guy do so in person and in public? To succeed against opposition that opposition must be politically incompetent. To oppose removal the opposition should need to publicly demonstrate competence.
And it’s worth pointing out that HIPAA is completely pre-empted by the constitutional process of the 25th. The People and their Representatives, judging the fitness or lack of their Executive, have the need and right to know any and all remotely relevant medical details. No way you can permit privacy for any PC concerns without letting stuff like neurosyphilis be ignored. Someone sufficiently embarrassed can always just stop objecting. Not that the left is known to suffer much from shame.
GOP role here is limited. It can’t trigger Joe’s removal. What it can and should do is make the Democrats, collectively, pay a political price for covering up any possible need for the 25th. And the first lesson of Watergate was that the coverup can be worse than the crime. Just ask Hillary; she was there. Just ask Joe; if he can remember. The right weren’t shocked by the debate, but on the left many voters, officials and media seemed shocked and were mad they’d not been forewarned. Hold Kamala, the 25th’s designated Cabinet POTUS watchers, their party apparatus and the media responsible for dereliction of duty. 25th empowers Congress to adjust its rules. House can’t trigger removal, but it can say recent events question the adequacy of those rules and call hearings to investigate what Joe’s watchers knew and when they knew it. The scandal, if any, is bigger than Joe. If present, flushing just Joe shouldn’t end it.
“on the left many voters, officials and media seemed shocked and were mad they’d not been forewarned.”
The problem is they were lying.
They knew.
They have known for years.
As Gutfield said the only reason they are “shocked” and “mad” is that even the cretins out there with sub 80 IQs now know as well.
Biden was non compos mentis in 2020 and they knew it.