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Everyone's talking about the 25th Amendment — but it has a 'fatal flaw' that makes it...
MSN/ Business Insider ^ | September 5, 2018

Posted on 09/05/2018 3:06:23 PM PDT by SMGFan

Chatter about the 25th Amendment has ramped up again on Wednesday after a senior official in President Donald Trump's administration authored an anonymous New York Times op-ed in which they wrote that colleagues have discussed it.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 25thamendment; leftwingnuts; lodestar
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1 posted on 09/05/2018 3:06:23 PM PDT by SMGFan
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Commie libs have been calling Conservatives crazy for what, 30 years now..back with Reagan, he was crazy too remove him from office they said..you can’t remove someone from office because you disagree with their agenda..this is a common leftist tactic


2 posted on 09/05/2018 3:10:14 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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You mean the removal process under the 25th amendment doesn’t work the same way as it did on the ‘24’ series? /deranged liberals


3 posted on 09/05/2018 3:10:19 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: SMGFan

Anonymous sources say that an anonymous source said.

Yeah, right.

If this turns out to be NOT a White House official,
then they need to be prosecuted for impersonating
a Federal Official.


4 posted on 09/05/2018 3:12:17 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The 25th Amendment has been misrepresented and/or misunderstood with boring regularity over the last 18 months.

The "fatal flaw" described in this article is not a flaw at all. It's a feature of the 25th Amendment. Removing a sitting President under the terms of the 25th Amendment is more difficult than simply impeaching him in a House vote and removing him through a Senate trial.

The 25th Amendment is not intended to apply to a situation where a President is removed against his will. It's intended for a situation where the President is incapacitated, cannot discharge his duties, and cannot transmit to Congress his written declaration that no incapacity exists.

In other words, the 25th Amendment addresses a case where a President is unconscious, abducted, or out of contact unexpectedly for some other reason.

5 posted on 09/05/2018 3:19:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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The 25th Amendment allows for VP to TEMPORARILY assume command, unless the President contests it.

At that point, it takes a 2/3 majority of BOTH houses to remove him, which is a higher bar than impeachment.

6 posted on 09/05/2018 3:19:46 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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Couldn’t resist taking a dig at the president in the last sentence.

That is the ingrained partisan bias that is so pervasive and flows so naturally from the mainstream media that they don’t even see it for what it is.


7 posted on 09/05/2018 3:26:02 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler
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Top everywhere, not just Twitter. I think the soft coup happened November 22, 1963. Trump is allowed to change some things domestically, but not foreign policy wise.

We’ve already seen it.


8 posted on 09/05/2018 3:27:35 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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So we’re back to the 25th Amendment gambit, are we?


9 posted on 09/05/2018 3:30:14 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Everybody talks about the 25th Amendment but nobody does anything about it.


10 posted on 09/05/2018 3:40:36 PM PDT by arthurus (m)
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It’s nonsense.

Empty rhetoric and idle chat.

Yet the supposed best newspaper prints it.


11 posted on 09/05/2018 3:53:04 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Alberta's Child

They’re idiots.

Those who know better are the amoral ones.


12 posted on 09/05/2018 3:54:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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When I was teaching US Constitution to my 7th graders, I showed the 25th as the ‘Oh my God’ Amendment. Before the Atomic Age, very little could happen to the US that would require a President’s immediate attention. Wilson had a debilitating stroke and the country chugged along. But in the 50s, Eisenhower had a string of heart attacks and in ‘63 Kennedy was shot in the head. Of course he died within hours, but what if he had survived as a ‘vegetable’. Who could take over? JFK couldn’t resign, impeachment is reserved for high crimes and misdemeanors. The 25th provided a mechanism to replace a disabled President. Not a President you merely dislike.


13 posted on 09/05/2018 4:02:23 PM PDT by hanamizu
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Fake news and no one ion the Admin wrote it, they are trying to have their own Q model and watch for more of this used toilet paper to come forth

If you read the Times in my opinion your brain died long ago


14 posted on 09/05/2018 4:04:12 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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The op-ed and Woodward book are talking about the same thing so it’s just another pile of crap


15 posted on 09/05/2018 4:09:05 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Folks, this is why voting in the mid terms is so important. The Left and their media accomplices push innuendo, make up negative things and out right lie. They have zero ethics and only believe in the Constitution when they think it supports what they want — even though they are typically misunderstanding the Constitution. This country will not survive another Pelosi and Schumer led Congress.


16 posted on 09/05/2018 4:18:05 PM PDT by falcon99
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Bookmark


17 posted on 09/05/2018 4:21:39 PM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: arthurus

MSNBC’s (Nicolle)Wallace: Ryan, McConnell Should ‘Convene a Hearing Today on the 25th Amendment’


18 posted on 09/05/2018 4:28:38 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: tet68

Between you and me...I think it was Omarosa.


19 posted on 09/05/2018 4:29:32 PM PDT by equaviator (`)
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And then there is the Haig way Btw he did good that dark afternoon


20 posted on 09/05/2018 4:35:53 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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