"FTA: Mr. Rankin’s bill — he’s been nursing it since 2017 — would pick up an unused power granted to Congress in the 25th amendment.
The amendment allows for the temporary removal of the president if a the vice president plus a majority of the cabinet declares he’s unable to discharge his duties.
If two-thirds of each house agrees, the president can indefinitely sidelined.
By requiring that the vice president get backing from a majority of the cabinet, the amendment has a built-in protection for the president.
By requiring that the vice president get backing from a majority of the cabinet, the amendment has a built-in protection for the president.
It’s the president, after all, who names the cabinet in the first place.
The 25th, though, has an option.
Instead of the cabinet, the vice president could get a majority “of such other body as Congress may by law provide.”
The Pelosi-Rankin bill would, for the first time, create such a body...Read all!
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