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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.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
The portion of the 25th Amendment that allows the vice president and Cabinet to remove the president had in mind a leader who was in a coma or suffered a stroke.
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law.
“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 ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is announcing legislation Thursday that would to allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to remove the president.
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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.