Getting The 25Th Amendment On The Record

On Friday, HHS Secretary Tom Price was thrown to the tarmac. This agency that at that topographic point are straight off 2 Cabinet vacancies, equally DHS has been without a caput since General Kelly left to acquire White House Chief of Staff. Cabinet secretaries come upwardly together with boot the bucket from every Administration, of course, exactly at that topographic point is i exceptional expression of these vacancies inwards the Trump Administration.

Why? Because unopen to people (with either buyer's remorse or seller's exasperation) retrieve that Section Four of the 25th Amendment should endure invoked to take away the President. While I retrieve this is a terrible idea, when the side past times side Cabinet nominee is earlier the Senate for a confirmation hearing, a perfectly appropriate query would endure "What is your agreement of that provision?" or "What criterion would you lot apply if asked, pursuant to Section Four, to declare the President incapable of performing his duties?" Perhaps the response volition reverberate the pre-2017 thought that Section Four was solely meant to address clear physical illnesses, or perchance the response volition endure something else. But nosotros mightiness acquire something, equally all members of the Cabinet are business office of the jury inwards that exceptional case.

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