• wakko@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Call your representatives. Demand they invoke the 25th amendment or Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution. Demand they remove an obviously demented and incompetent President from office.

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      2 days ago

      Congress can’t invoke the 25th, that’s for the Cabinet or the President himself. Congress only steps in if the Cabinet declares the President is unable to preform his duties and the President contests the decision.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Not true. In addition to the Cabinet, the 25th Amendment also provides for Congress to appoint a committee to do this in cooperation with the Vice President, and this process was started by Rep. Jamie Raskin on April 14.

        Here’s the actual text of the relevant section of the 25th from Wikipedia:

        Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments [the Cabinet] 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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      2 days ago

      We should also be demanding that US troops are withdrawn from the strait of Hormuz and that we work with our non-Israeli allies to reach a multilateral agreement with the government of Iran to reopen the strait and guarantee everyone’s security. Removing Donald is necessary to stop things from getting even worse but just doing that alone and allowing the other idiots in DC to go back to business as usual isn’t going to clean up this mess he created.