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2017-07-01 -Land of the Free
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Two dozen Democrats get behind bill to lay foundation for removing Trump for being mentally 'incapacitated'
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 [DailyMail] A Democratic congressman has proposed convening a special committee of psychiatrists and other doctors whose job would be to determine if President Donald Trump is fit to serve in the Oval Office.
| I don't think they've wrapped their minds around dealing with a sane, non-senile billionaire entails. What gives them the idea that he can't find a few psychiatrists of his own on top of the lawyers he's had on staff for decades? |
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who also teaches constitutional law at American University, has predictably failed to attract any Republicans to his banner.
Because it is an attempted coup, plain and simple
But the U.S. Constitution's 25th Amendment does allow for a majority of the president's cabinet, or 'such other body as Congress may by law provide,' to decide if an Oval Office occupant is unable to carry out his duties ‐ and then to put it to a full congressional vote.
| Scenario: the Democrats get their congressional vote, but the entire cabinet pronounces Mr. Trump fully capable of carrying out his presidential duties. Mr. Trump's psychiatrists agree. His team of lawyers announce they will be taking this directly to the Supreme Court if Congress does not back down immediately. |
Vice President Mike Pence would also have to agree, which could slow down the process ‐ or speed it up if he wanted the levers of power for himself.
The 25th Amendment has been around since shortly after the John F. Kennedy assassination, but Congress has never formed its own committee in case it's needed to judge a president's mental health.
Raskin's bill would allow the four Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate to each choose a psychiatrist and another doctor. Then each party would add a former statesman ‐ like a retired president or vice president.
The final group of 10 would meet and choose an 11th member, who would become the committee's chairman.
Once the group is officially seated, the House and Senate could direct it through a joint resolution to conduct an actual examination of the president 'to determine whether the president is incapacitated, either mentally or physically,' according to the Raskin bill.
And if the president refuses to participate, the bill dictates, that 'shall be taken into consideration by the commission in reaching a conclusion.'
Kinda like filing an objection to your death penalty
Under the 25th Amendment, such a committee ‐ or the president's cabinet ‐ can notify Congress in writing that a sitting president is unfit. In either case the vice president must concur, and he would immediately become 'acting president.'
Presidents have voluntarily transferred their powers to vice presidents in the past, including when they are put under anesthesia for medical procedures.
Raskin's plan could have a fatal flaw, however: Legal scholars tend to agree that when the Constitution's framers first provided for the replacement of a president with an 'inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the Office,' they weren't talking about mere eccentricities.
And when the 25th Amendment was sent to the states for ratification in 1965, the Senate agreed that 'inability' meant that a president was 'unable to make or communicate his decisions' and suffered from a 'mental debility' rendering him 'unable or unwilling to make any rational decision.'
So far two dozen members of the House, all Democrats, have signed on to cosponsor the bill.
All bought and paid for by Soros
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a far-left liberal Democrat, claimed Friday in a Fox Business Channel interview that Congress can remove 'incompetent' presidents.
'The 25th Amendment is utilized when a president is perceived to be incompetent or unable to do his or her job,' she said.
Obumble definitely would have fit the 'incompetent' definition.
While I don't expect this to go anywhere, it does prove that the demoncrats will do anything to force his removal. And most likely a bunch of swamp RHINOs would go along with it. If they do succeed or win back congress and impeach him in 2019, expect a full Civil War.
If they don't succeed in their coup, it will be time to revise that particular amendment to not allow it to be used for a coup. 
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