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Who decides whether to invoke it. The cabinet, judiciary or legislative?
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)But I feel we are there now. He's actively fomenting violence.
A president thus declared unable to serve may subsequently issue a declaration stating that he or she is able. This marks the beginning of a four-day period during which the vice president remains acting president. If by the end of this period the vice president and a majority of the "principal officers of the executive departments" have not issued a second declaration of the president's incapacity, then the president resumes his powers and duties.
If a second declaration of incapacity is issued within the four-day period, then the vice president remains acting president while Congress considers the matter. If within 21 days the Senate and the House determine, each by a two-thirds vote, that the president is incapacitated, then the vice president continues as acting president; otherwise the president resumes his powers and duties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
And, apparently, if you keep reading there's a bonus hemorrhoid... err factoid:
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)Cabinet Secretaries in any competent/non-corrupt administration? Because he packed his Cabinet full of losers/jerks/idiots/criminals who will NEVER vote to ditch him, because they ALL know the very first thing any half-way competent POTUS (even as asshole like Pence) would do is shit-can all of them and make them irrelevant again.
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)tanyev
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Agreed. This has been explained here so many times it's hard to believe anyone still even bothers to ask about the 25th Amendment.
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Ferryboat
(922 posts)Just asking what the process is, haven't been following the threads you speak of.
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