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Section 2 provides a mechanism for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. Before the Twenty-fifth Amendment, a vice-presidential vacancy continued until a new vice president took office at the start of the next presidential term; the vice presidency had become vacant several times due to death, resignation, or succession to the presidency, and these vacancies had often lasted several years.
“Congress cannot legally compel the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment,” Michael Kang, a professor at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, told McClatchy News in an email. “The ...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) called on President Biden’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to potentially remove him from office after Thursday’s debate performance that included a number of ...
The 25th Amendment can allow the removal of an unfit president. Democrats called for invoking it to replace Trump in 2021, but it's unlikely they'll do so with Biden.
House Democrats were planning a resolution that calls on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. Here's what that amendment says.
The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows a majority of the president’s cabinet and vice president to write to Congress that the president is unable to discharge the duties of the office.
Indeed, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told USA Today, later that she had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment with Pence, but that Pence had shot down the idea. “I wanted to get a ...
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution on Tuesday that calls on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove President Trump from office.