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>... and have the senate adjudicate, which would be decidedly not great. Why not? Sounds like it's roughly tantamount to giving the cabinet the power to impeac
by 0xffff2 6y ago
>... and have the senate adjudicate, which would be decidedly not great.
Why not? Sounds like it's roughly tantamount to giving the cabinet the power to impeach the President. Given the natural restraint on that power in that the cabinet is appointed by the President, I'm not sure I see any problem there.
- macspoofing 6y ago>Sounds like it's roughly tantamount to giving the cabinet the power to impeach the President Congress also the ability to impeach the President. Congress couldn't get the votes to do remove the President from office ... so your partisan solution is for the cabinet to find a reason to remove the President? Why? Because you don't like how your fellow citizens voted? How about this: Vote him out in the next election? Oh that actually happened! And Democracy survived! For all the talk about Trump, the opposition is perfectly willing to destroy every single norm and democratic institution just to get him.
- 0xffff2 6y agoWoha, what? This wasn't "my solution". I was just commenting because I didn't understand the particular danger, which the OP clarified.
- ashtonkem 6y agoMy wording was unclear. Having the Senate check on the 25th amendment is a good thing; the cabinet should not have the power to depose the president just because. That’s clearly a very dangerous power to just leave laying around like that. What’s bad is having a very much awake and ambulatory Trump arguing in front of the Senate that he should be back in power. That’s a political nightmare, and far worse than Congress using its powers to expel the president on their own initiative. It’s much better for our body politic for Congress to impeach and save the 25th amendment for less politically ambiguous situations.