The 22nd and 25th Amendments
The next president falsely believes he can act as he wants despite these parts of the Constitution.
Issue #772 The Choice, Friday, November 22, 2024
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The president-elect intends to be a “Dictator on Day One” and to run for a third term.
He is also choosing candidates for his Cabinet whose only “qualification” is that they are totally loyal to him.
He has also demonstrated his disdain for the Constitution and any laws or rules that may prevent him from doing what he wants.
The 22nd and 25th Amendments to the United States Constitution are important provisions that outline presidential term limits and succession procedures.
The process for adding amendments to the United States Constitution is outlined in Article V of the Constitution:
Two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate can vote to propose an amendment. Alternatively, two-thirds of state legislatures can request that Congress call a convention to propose amendments.
Three-fourths of state legislatures or three-fourths of state conventions must ratify the amendment.
The president-elect wants to ignore any amendment that he doesn’t like, including the 14th Amendment that gives birth citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including the children of undocumented immigrants. He has stated that he wants to “take away” their citizenship.
The 22nd Amendment was ratified on February 27, 1951.
This amendment was introduced in response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four-term presidency. Before Roosevelt, it was customary, following George Washington's precedent, for presidents to serve no more than two terms. Concerns about extended presidential power led to the amendment's adoption.
The 22nd Amendment limits any person to be elected to the office of the President no more than twice. It also states that a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected (such as a Vice President who assumes the presidency) cannot be elected to the presidency more than once.
Constitutionally, the president-elect cannot run for a third term.
The 25th Amendment was ratified on February 10, 1967.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy highlighted ambiguities in presidential succession and the need for a clear constitutional process for dealing with presidential incapacity.
Section 1: Clarifies that the Vice President becomes President if the President is removed from office, dies, or resigns.
Section 2: Provides for the filling of a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, with the President nominating a candidate who a majority of both Houses of Congress must confirm.
Section 3: Allows the President to temporarily transfer power to the Vice President by declaring inability to discharge the duties of the office.
Section 4: Provides a mechanism for the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the President incapacitated and transfer power to the Vice President as Acting President.
The president-elect is thinking about Section 4. Everyone knows that the 78-year-old president-elect is quickly declining cognitively and physically and that the Republicans want his policies more than they want him.
On the other hand, he wants to be a “dictator on Day One” and a dictator for life. He is trying to ensure that his vice president and cabinet members do not use Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
As of today, due to public pressure on the current Republican senators and the CNN threat to release the report on his previous sexual activities with underage girls, Matt Gaetz decided not to be considered for the Attorney General position.
Additionally, several non-MAGA Republican senators are against the president-elect’s desire to get his cabinet choices approved without the Constitutionally-mandated Senate hearings and votes.
Little by little, the president-elect’s plans to be a dictator even before he is inaugurated are starting to fail.
It is up to us to continue to fight for our democracy and the Constitution as the law of the land.
This is useful and well-written. It's good for us all to be reminded of the rules we have agreed on, because the orange führer doesn't have any rules.
Unfortunately, the Bloated Yam has six tools to avoid obeying the Constitution:
1. Emergency decrees
2. Insurrection Act
3. Recess Appointments
4. Acting Appointments
5. Executive Orders
6. Martial Law
Where do you think we live? Some kind of democracy? This is Donald Trump's America! The people just told us so...