January 19, 2021 at 12:16 PM
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In recent weeks we have been hearing a lot about the 25th Amendment. Ratified in 1967, it changed part of Article II, Section 1, of the United States Constitution. Given the protests and attacks that have plagued the United States Capitol and many parts of the country, some have called for Vice President Michael Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment in order to remove President Donald Trump from office. The relevant portion of the Amendment is:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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