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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (194871)	2/25/2021 11:44:43 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 356150

The problem you now face is all this shit rolling downhill on you. The thing you falsely attacked Trump for are actually true about Biden. It is hard to imagine you have stepped in it like this, but you have. He won't last a year, and may not last 6 months. Only thing is I'm not sure Republicans would support dumping him, because that would be Harris. An incompetent Biden may be better than Harris.

To: bentway who wrote (194871)	2/26/2021 2:04:11 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Respond to of 356150

>> I think probably early on they could have done, and considered the 25th amendment << It would only work for mental incapacity, not moral depravity. Trump would've just declared himself competent, and they would never have got the 67% votes needed to make it stick. If the president subsequently issues a declaration claiming to be able, then a four-day period begins during which the vice president remains acting president. [3]:118-9 [4]:38n137 If by the end of this period the vice president and a majority of the "principal officers" have not issued a second declaration of the president's inability, then the president resumes his powers and duties; but if they do issue a second declaration within the four days, then the vice president remains acting president while Congress considers the matter. Then if within 21 days the Senate and the House determine, each by a two-thirds vote, that the president is unable, then the vice president continues as acting president; otherwise the president resumes his powers and duties. 1.4 Section 4: Declaration by vice president and cabinet members of president's inability