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PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT: Donald Trump and Mike Pence have reportedly not spoken to each other since Trump supporters took over Congress on Wednesday of last week. Photo: MICHAEL REYNOLDS / EPA
On Monday night, Democrats formally submitted a proposal for a higher court against Donald Trump. If you have not yet been removed from office by your own government before then, there may be a vote on Wednesday.
Democrats in the US House of Representatives first presented a proposal on Monday asking Vice President Mike Pence to activate the 25th constitutional amendment.
That is, Pence and a majority in the government must then declare Donald Trump incapable of fulfilling his functions and then remove him from office, so that the vice president immediately assumes the position of interim president.
The background to the proposal is that Democrats, as well as several Republicans, believe that the president bears a great responsibility for the attack on Congress on Wednesday of last week.
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Republicans protested
Democrats wanted the proposal calling for Pence to pass immediately without a formal vote with a full house. Unsurprisingly, the Republicans protested against this.
Thus, the House of Representatives will take a break until tomorrow. The matter will then be discussed again and a vote will be taken with all the representatives present.
Such a proposal will likely then win a majority, but if Pence still doesn’t want to activate the 25th constitutional amendment, he will go against a Supreme Court vote against the president.
It will probably happen on Wednesday.
This is the 25th constitutional amendment:
Accused of inciting rebellion
A national bill was formally presented on Monday, shortly after the proposal to urge the vice president to activate the 25th constitutional amendment.
In the Supreme Court proposal, Democrats accuse the president, among other things, of inciting rebellion. They refer to:
- Trump’s repeated false claims that he won the presidential election.
- Trump’s speech on January 6, before his supporters stormed Congress.
- Trump’s phone call to the Georgia state election official to find enough votes to turn the tide in Trump’s favor.
In addition, the resolution establishes:
– In these actions, President Trump seriously endangered the security of the United States and the institutions of government. It threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful seizure of power, and endangered an equal state power.
Democrats believe that Trump thus betrayed his trust as president, to the detriment of the people.
Democrat: get the votes
214 Democrats in the House of Representatives signed the Supreme Court resolution, reports Congressman Dacid Cicilline Monday night.
– Most important of all, I can report that we now have enough votes for the Supreme Court, writes on Twitter.
If the proposal is to result in an impeachment, a simple majority (218 representatives of Congress) must vote in favor. The current Supreme Court case is taking place in the Senate, the second chamber of Congress.
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Comment: Trump can go free
For the president to be overthrown, two out of three senators must vote for such a result. Republicans still have a majority in the Senate.
If he ends up with a higher court case against Trump, he will be the first in history to experience being brought before a higher court twice. The first time was about a year ago.
He is already one of only three who have experienced this. The other two are Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999.
No president of the United States has been convicted in a Supreme Court case. Trump was acquitted in February of last year after only one Republican voted to convict him, ousting him.
A possible new Supreme Court case can hardly begin until after Trump is gone anyway, as it will in just nine days. This means that such a trial will take place in Joe Biden’s early days as president.
