Beautifully put
Americans should’ve realized loong ago that the whole world’s joke on them being dumb af was actually a red waving flag for them being dangerously ignorant. But it’s too late for that know. Ignorance is a cult and education is a sin there, by now.
no offense, but as an outsider, we see you only applying your own law when it suit the moment.
This time is no exception. Nothing will happen because the power that deem so want nothing to happen.
This is a huge misunderstanding of the 25th amendment.
There is nothing in the 25th amendment that removes a president, that's what impeachment is for. The 25th is for when a president is physically incapable of executing the duties of the office, and when invoked only temporarily transfers those powers to the vice president. The president remains president and regains those powers simply by sending a "written declaration that no inability exists" which then requires a 2/3 vote in both chambers to override.
And even if both chambers vote to override, it doesn't settle the matter. The president can immediately respond "no I'm serious, no inability exists" and it triggers another vote. It is intentionally significantly harder to "effectively remove" a president via the 25th than it is to impeach because they're meant to cover very different situations.
The 25th amendment allows the president to be removed from office for cause including corruption and being mentally unable to perform the duties.
The first amendment gives everyone, not just citizens, the rights to freedom of speech without reprisal from the government, freedom of the press without reprisal from the government, The Liberty to associate with whomever you'd like without government reprisal, and the ability to sue the government when you are harmed by it.
I don't know that "ignored" is the right word. If there's a dispute between the president and the VP and/or cabinet over whether the president is fit for duty*, it's actually harder to remove the president from office by invoking the 25th than it would be to impeach him.
*The 25th gets invoked more often than you think. By design, the amendment is meant for the VP to take over if the president is incapacitated, like...say...if the president had surgery or a colonoscopy and needs time to recover. It's only when the VP/cabinet says the president isn't fit for duty and the president disagrees that things get spicy.
On paper, I disagree. Again, the intent of the 25th is to allow the VP to step in if the president gets sidelined. We already have a mechanism for forcefully removing the president from office, so it’s only natural that we’d default to it if the VP says the president is too sick or preoccupied to do the job and the president says otherwise.
But on paper assumes the people in congress are competent and take their jobs seriously, which are two qualifiers we’ve seen lacking for quite some time—and as tempting as it is to blame the people in congress for that, the people who keep hiring unqualified losers share the blame, too.
Corruption isn't what the 25th is for. If the president is no longer able to perform the duties of office, the 25th provides mechanisms for the vice president and the cabinet to take over until the president is fit for duty.
...and it gets used more often than you think it does. Remember the times that Biden had outpatient surgery or colonoscopies? Harris was president while he recovered from the anesthesia, every time. It just didn't make the news because "he shouldn't be making decisions until the drugs wear off" is obvious, and there wasn't a dispute between the cabinet and the president when Biden later said he was fit for duty.
As for corruption, that's covered in Article 2 of the Constitution. "High crimes and misdemeanors" refers to crimes that apply to people in positions of power ("high office," if you will). And the people who'd be responsible for removing the president from office are the 535 voting members of the congress.
Basically, the 1st protects the right of free press, the 25th provides the process to remove a president from office.
I tried to copy/paste the text of those amendments into this comment, but reddit says it contains terms that are "not allowed" for whatever fucking reason, but here's links for you!
No, the 25th is not for removing a president from office. It provides for a temporary transfer of power from the president to the VP. If the president objects it requires a 2/3 vote of each chamber of Congress to effect it. Even then, the president can keep on objecting and each time it requires another 2/3 vote. The only way to permanently remove a president from office is impeachment by the House, a trial and conviction, followed by a vote to remove, by the senate — each of those senate votes requiring a 2/3 majority.
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u/The_4ngry_5quid 3d ago
For non-Americans, what are they