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Washington, January 8, 2021: President Donald Trump faced a growing chorus of calls Thursday to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment for inciting the mob violence that swept through the U.S. Capitol a day earlier.
Adopted in 1967, Amendment 25 establishes the provisions for a transfer of power of a president of the United States who dies, resigns, is removed from office or for other reasons is unable to fulfill his duties.
He has been invoked on several occasions, notably by Richard Nixon when he resigned in 1974 and for presidents who underwent a surgical procedure to have power temporarily transferred to the vice president.
In October last year, there was talk that Trump would possibly invoke the amendment when he fell ill with Covid-19, but did not take any action in the end.
Now, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are leading calls for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the amendment in the final days of Trump’s term, which ends in May. January 20.
Schumer, Pelosi and others inside and outside the government are speaking after shocking scenes Wednesday in which an angry mob incited by Trump invaded security at the United States Capitol, rampaging for hours and disrupting a proceeding in which the Congress finally certified that Joe Biden beat Trump. in the elections of November 3 and will be the next president of the United States.
American lawmakers began to address the issue of the CEO’s transfer of power in the late 1950s amid the ill health of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
It became more urgent after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the 25th Amendment was passed by Congress in 1965 and ratified by the required three-quarters of the 50 US states two years later.
Section 3 of Amendment 25 addresses the transfer of presidential powers to the vice president when the executive director declares that he or she cannot fulfill the powers and duties of the office.
Section 4 addresses a situation where the vice president and the cabinet majority determine that the president can no longer serve. This section has never been invoked.
Summoned three times
Section 3 has been invoked three times.
The first was in July 1985 when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery under general anesthesia to remove a cancerous polyp from his large intestine.
Vice President George HW Bush was named interim president for about eight hours while Reagan was in surgery.
President George W. Bush temporarily transferred power to Vice President Dick Cheney in June 2002 and July 2007 while he underwent routine colonoscopies under anesthesia.
Following Reagan’s serious injuries in an assassination attempt in 1981, a letter invoking Section 3 was drawn up, but never sent.
Under Section 3, the President informs the President pro tempore, or presiding officer, of the Senate, currently Republican Chuck Grassley, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, currently Pelosi, in writing that he is unable to discharge his duties. of the office and is temporarily transferring power to the vice president.
Under Section 4, the vice president and a majority of the cabinet members report to the Senate and House leaders that the president is unable to perform his duties and the vice president becomes interim president.
If a president challenges a determination that he or she cannot perform his or her duties, it is up to Congress to make the decision.
It would take a two-thirds majority in both the House and the Senate to declare the president unfit to remain in office.
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe has claimed that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein raised the possibility of invoking Section 4 against Trump after he abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.
Rosenstein has denied the accusation. – AFP
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