Listen to this articleThe U.S Constitution has a built-in mechanism that allows the powers of the U.S President to be transferred to the U.S Vice President if he becomes incapable of discharging the President. The former U.S Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W Bush temporarily used the 25th Amendment before they were put under medical anesthesia. The amendment has been floated as a potential means of installing Mike Pence in the Oval Office, as the commander-in-chief continues to lurch from one scandal to the next. The Twitter outburst on 6 September about a New York Times op-ed from a White House insider made headlines around the world. At the same time, the U.S Vice President was tweeting far more moderately, he tweeted: “Joined @POTUS in welcoming sheriffs from around the country to the @WhiteHouse today. Our administration stands with our law enforcement officers. THANK YOU for everything you do”.
A deployment of the 25th Amendment to Trump would need various variables to fall into place. Pence and eight of the 15 members of the Trump cabinet should decide to go ahead with it and be prepared to prove their case before securing a two-thirds majority vote in the U.S Congress if Trump were to challenge them. The assistant head of the U.S and Americas Program at Chatham House, Dr. Jacob Parakilas said that he believed such a measure was extremely unlikely. The idea was used to forcibly depose a president. It would obviously create a political crisis and I might very quickly become a constitutional crisis. He added that people will see the emergence of factionalism within the U.S government. It has been considered a powerful tool but it has the potential for spectacular levels of blowback. The most important and operative part of the 25th Amendment is Section No. 4.
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