What is the 25th Amendment? The 25th Amendment to the Constitution is primarily designed to clarify the presidential order of succession. The first three sections deal with when a president ...

Failing that, he urges Congress to immediately go into session in order to proceed with impeachment. In a helpful recent post, co-blogger Josh Blackman describes the 25th Amendment process ...

The 25th Amendment is once again a topic of discussion following a Justice Department report released Thursday concerning President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of confidential documents and ...

The 25th Amendment is having its moment. Added to the U.S. Constitution a half-century ago to address the line of succession when a president is unable to fulfill his duties, it is generating buzz ...

But throughout Donald Trump's presidency, the 25th Amendment has come up again and again as a possible means of removing Trump to put Vice President Mike Pence in charge. With days left in his ...

The revelation follows an unsigned Sept. 5 New York Times op-ed reporting that Trump’s Cabinet members had also discussed using the 25th Amendment, but decided against it to avoid causing a ...

In order for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, the majority of the cabinet would need to agree that the president is unfit to serve. The 25th Amendment also clarifies the line of succession to the ...

One of these is the 25th Amendment, which governs presidential succession. Although it deals with a critical issue, the 25th amendment dates only to 1967. Before then, the only relevant statute ...

Jon Stewart joked that the president had “resting 25th Amendment face.” It was a brutal punch line. But the laugh may be on the 25th Amendment. Ratified in 1967 after years of earnest debate ...

Since its ratification in 1967, the 25th Amendment has never received more attention than in recent years. Beginning in 2018 with a then-“anonymous” op-ed that stated a secret group of Trump ...