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“Lightweight Jamie Raskin is a stupid person’s idea of a smart person,” said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle.

Trump is a poor white trash person's idea of a rich person.

I was about to complain yet again "that's not how it works", but then I looked up the text again and this is explicitly allowed. Congress can set up a commission that basically takes the place of the Cabinet for 25th Amendment purposes. So now all this talk of the 25th amendment makes a bit more sense to me.

They still need a 2/3 margin in both houses even after the commission makes their determination, because the idiot is guaranteed to contest it. But maybe there is some truth to the idea that Republicans won't vote to impeach but would vote to declare him incompetent, based on his dumb tweets

Oh great another 2 year circus side show.

A commission to assess?

Ffs.

Nuke us from space.

Has anyone noticed that the "both sides are the same so don't bother voting" crowd have tripled efforts since we neared another important election time frame, funny how that happens.

Especially pitching that in the face of Hungary's recent transition.

His craziness needs to stay in until December.

Man, woman, felon, camera.

Jesus Christ just go for impeachment. If you can 25th, you can impeach. What a waste of time.

His mental fitness is being assessed constantly. They just don't care about his decline. Putin will have him as long as he think he can serve his purpose as being a useful idiot.

That's basically saying "No u".

Gross
Old
Projection

Seriously, people have (rightly) been saying this about Trump for decades!

Congress has the power to create a commission to exercise the power to remove a mentally unfit president from office. The biggest worry is that this would inevitably be politicized. I say, let it happen! Let it be political. Let's have an openly political "mental health commission" that will rule that being a member of the opposite political party is a mental illness. Hell, let it become a formality. It will simply be expected that the president will be removed from office after a change in Congressional control. Whenever a change in control of Congress happens, the new Congressional leadership will stuff it with political ideologues. And they'll inevitably rule a president of the opposing party to be mentally unfit. Eventually it just becomes a formality, no one even considers it unusual. We just expect the presidency to be able to flip every two years. And we giggle that it has to be done by formally declaring the previous guy to be crazy. I think this would be a good idea.

Why? Because this would effectively transform the US into a Parliamentary democracy. A simple majority in both houses of Congress would be enough to install a new president. They effectively become a Prime Minister at that point. Parliamentary democracies have proven much more resilient to strong-man dictatorial takeover. It's not as perfect a solution as amending the constitution to formally remove the office of president entirely, but it would be a decent hack to do something similar. And going to a Parliamentary system isn't a magic cure-all, but it does have quite a bit of merit. As a plus, we would have the bonus of being "that nation that regularly declares its former leaders legally crazy." And you know what? I think that works well with America's energy.

I haven’t seen this on Reddit yet. It’s interesting to compare what’s posted on lemmy and reddid.

I knew the dems would form a committee eventually. It's only a matter of time now. /s

Does the 25th also work to remove Schumer and Jeffries from office?

he's going to ace it! it'll be the best 25th amendment commission they've ever seen! Maybe even the most they've ever seen, who knows? lots of people were saying "wow you aced it mr president"

"We are going to file a request to create a vote in order to create a commission, that can create a petition to allow us to file the article to vote on whether or not we can impeach the seditious, blackmailed. child raping, human trafficker that sold out our country".

The rules are pretty hilarious at this point.

They REALLY WANT HIM GONE GUYS

Hilarious how everyone here complains they take the (slow) bureaucratic route.

This is a political party and that's how they can act.

If you want fast results, take it to the streets. Kicking him out outside of bureaucratic procedures is everyone's responsibility, not specifically the elected parties

Another performative stunt. Dead on arrival and everyone knows it.

I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in... We kept it grey!"

Bureaucratic babbel at it's finest.

Sure let's do everything but useful stuff

I mean, it's moderately encouraging to see Dems doing something to fight Trump, but Congress doesn't have the authority to utilize the mechanisms in the 25th amendment to remove Trump. They can issue articles of impeachment (again), but there are too many conservative senators and representatives protecting Trump for that to be viable, either.

This bill won't go anywhere, and even if it did pass, it wouldn't have any effect.