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Constitutional Expert: Unlikely Someone Is Building Case To Invoke 25th Amendment
CBS PHILLY ^ | 11 OCTOBER 2017 | PAT LOEB

Posted on 10/11/2017 4:36:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — CBS Radio alumnus Michael Smerconish, this week, suggested that Senator Bob Corker’s comments about the White House were intended to “plant the seeds” for a 25th Amendment removal of President Donald Trump. The city’s leading constitutional expert finds that unlikely.

The 25th Amendment passed in 1967 after an illness by President Eisenhower and the assassination of President Kennedy to allow the vice president to take over in the event the president is disabled. Constitution Center president Jeffrey Rosen says it’s been invoked three times, voluntarily by President Reagan when he was shot and President Bush twice during medical procedures. But it includes a clause that lets the vice president and cabinet decide if he’s too disabled to serve.

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1 posted on 10/11/2017 4:36:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The details are that invoking the 25th over a president’s objections is more difficult than impeachment and removal. That’s why it’s fallen off the radar except among the stupidest of kooks.


2 posted on 10/11/2017 4:39:13 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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...That’s why it’s fallen off the radar except among the stupidest of kooks...

Such as Republican legislators and lunatic liberals. We


3 posted on 10/11/2017 4:43:03 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: jjotto

these clowns can just ask Antifa to riot


4 posted on 10/11/2017 4:43:16 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The big problem here is that Donald Trump is doing a superb job of running the country and he is obviously fully in control of his mental faculties.

Physically, he just shot a one over par golf match with Lindsey Graham so physically he must be in pretty darn good shape.

The guy who is supposedly setting him up, Bob Corker, is the guy most responsible for enabling Obama’s Iran Nuclear deal which is just about to revelations which will cause major embarrassment and he also got caught in a big time pay to play scheme

Yeah, they are out to get Trump but it may backfire on them.

5 posted on 10/11/2017 4:57:13 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Sasparilla
Such as Republican legislators and lunatic liberals.

LOL

6 posted on 10/11/2017 5:32:11 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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There’s no question but that the elite have been trying to set up Trump
for impeachment.

Likely the excesses of Mueller are part of this; if Trump fires Mueller,
then they will scream “obstruction of justice”, and demand impeachment.

So, thanks to Sessions recusing himself, we are in a bit of a pickle, which wouldn’t have been as easy otherwise.

Hopefully God will sort it all out. As the prayer in the British national anthem says (”God save the Queen”) :

Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks
On Thee our hopes we fix
God save the king (queen)


7 posted on 10/11/2017 5:40:34 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Who’s going to do the removing? Seriously.


8 posted on 10/11/2017 6:31:52 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: rdcbn

Someone should have pitched a bitch about Corker’s tax returns instead of hammering at Trump.

Seems Corker lied about his income for over 10 years.

I wonder if we will ever know how much more tax & penalties Corker has to pay. ??

Maybe Corker should invest in serious accountants & tax lawyers like Trump always has done.


9 posted on 10/11/2017 6:50:33 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Definition of an expert:

Anybody on any topic more than 200 miles from home.

Did he forget that is takes a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.

Even if Hilary got all the votes she claimed she got, they still don’t have two thirds of anything. Let’s open our mouths and let the $hit fall out Smerconish. That statement is even stupid for a CBS reporter.

rwood


10 posted on 10/11/2017 7:06:00 PM PDT by Redwood71
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,,,,, they’ll throw everything at the wall hoping for something to stick . Meanwhile we stand by our man DJT any of his congressional supporters .


11 posted on 10/12/2017 3:57:22 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party :-()
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Removing our outstanding President would be treason...we know who to deal with traitors.


12 posted on 10/12/2017 4:48:12 AM PDT by Maverick68
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...and if successful, the establishment will initiate the second civil war....

God help us if they do this....


13 posted on 10/12/2017 4:50:37 AM PDT by PigRigger
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